| Personal Favourite Quotes I Like
Posted: 7/19/2009 11:24:27 PM | Here are a few of my all time favorites:
I don't believe in happiness as a goal. It's a bit like the right to choose vanilla: it is just a flavour.
-Tilda Swinton
When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
-Shakespeare
The problem's not that the truth is harsh but that the liberation from ignorance is as painful as being born. Run after truth until you're breathless. Accept the pain involved in re-creating yourself afresh. These ideas will take a life to comprehend, a hard one interspersed with drunken moments.
-Naguid Mahfouz 'Palace of Desire'
All problems are psychological, but all solutions are spiritual.
-Thomas Hora
It is the image in the mind that binds us to our lost treasures, but it is the loss that shapes the image.
-Colette
Renunciation precedes certainty.
-Gandhi
I need to write, to express myself through written language not only so that others might hear me but so that I could hear myself.
-Gabor Mate
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
-John Milton
People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.
-Ani Difranco
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-Virginia Woolf | |
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| Personal Favourite Quotes I Like
Posted: 7/20/2009 8:47:15 AM | Some of my faves...
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and I could say, "I used everything you gave me.”
Erma Bombeck
“I had a dream that God gave me flight, too fly for my own good, so God gave me plight.”
Lupe Fiasco
"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. "
James Baldwin
"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James Baldwin
"You cannot ever live the life of your dreams without coming face to face with the truth."
Oprah Winfrey
"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a ****. You've got to go out and kick ass."
Maya Angelou | |
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| Personal Favourite Quotes I Like
Posted: 7/22/2009 4:04:27 AM | "Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary - that's what gets you"
~Jeremy Clarkson, Car Journalist~ | |
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Posted: 7/22/2009 6:45:58 AM | | "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.” ~ Washington Irving | |
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Posted: 7/22/2009 8:57:35 AM | | "OM fugging G! I just wrote the best post in my life and...yack! Oh cow pie, I just deleted it by mistake..." Me just now... | |
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Posted: 7/29/2009 7:29:07 AM | | "You need to be kissed. And often. And by someone who knows how!" ~Rhett Butler as Clark Gable in Gone With the Wind, 1939 | |
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