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Post by hischild on Feb 8, 2006 11:44:19 GMT -5
I love gleaning the wisdom of others and learning from it. What are some of your favorite quotations? I suspect that when many you of start reading quotations it will create in you a very real desire to illustrate some of them. An added bonus is that you teenagers might actually shock your teachers! Here is my quote of the day.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Post by Michael on Feb 8, 2006 15:44:36 GMT -5
Oh, GC, I really like that quote...! It HAS given me an idea! ^_^
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Post by Gwen on Feb 8, 2006 18:17:50 GMT -5
well done God's gotta say i'm loving this thread!  Society often forgives the Sinner but never forgives the Dreamer ~ Oscar Wilde |
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Post by Ifrit on Feb 8, 2006 20:04:04 GMT -5
Those are nice, I like those.
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Post by hischild on Feb 9, 2006 8:33:02 GMT -5
Febuary is known as the month of love and Valentine's day is coming up very soon. Are you ready? One funny and the other, deep.
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ~Erich Segal
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. ~Alan Watts
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Post by hischild on Feb 12, 2006 0:01:15 GMT -5
Sonnet XLIII
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, -- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! -- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Post by hischild on Feb 13, 2006 9:41:35 GMT -5
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
-Dr Seuss
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Post by hischild on Feb 14, 2006 1:15:41 GMT -5
I will not play Tug O' War,
I'd rather play Hug O' War;
Where everyone hugs, instead of tugs,
And everyone giggles and rolls on the rug.
Where everyone kisses,
and everyone grins;
everyone cuddles,
and everyone wins.
~Shel Silverstein~ |
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Post by hischild on Feb 15, 2006 2:37:42 GMT -5
"One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war" -Albert Einstein
"The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected." -
Sun Tzu, the Art of War
*Note I am going to continue posting great quotations until you guys join in!
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Post by hischild on Feb 16, 2006 0:44:21 GMT -5
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth
~Robert Southey~
The Size Of Your Heart
It isn't the size of your house as such
That matters so much at all.
It's the gentle hand and its loving touch,
That make it great or small.
The friends who come and the hour they go,
Who out of your house depart,
Will judge it not by the style you show,
But rather by the size of your heart.
It isn't the size of your head so much,
It isn't the wealth you found.
That will make you happy -- it's how you touch
The lives that are all around.
For making money is not hard --
To live life well is an art:
How people love you, how they regard,
Is all in the size of your heart.
-- From A Sun Shiny Day
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Post by matthew on Feb 16, 2006 3:56:46 GMT -5
this is not a quote (I don't really know any ;D ), but it's close enough. In Broken Images
He is quick, thinking in clear images;
I am slow, thinking in broken images.
He becomes dull, trusting to his clear images;
I become sharp, mistrusting my broken images,
Trusting his images, he assumes their relevance;
Mistrusting my images, I question their relevance.
Assuming their relevance, he assumes the fact,
Questioning their relevance, I question the fact.
When the fact fails him, he questions his senses;
When the fact fails me, I approve my senses.
He continues quick and dull in his clear images;
I continue slow and sharp in my broken images.
He in a new confusion of his understanding;
I in a new understanding of my confusion.
Robert Graves
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Post by hischild on Feb 17, 2006 0:11:35 GMT -5
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves. ~Eric Hoffer
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Post by hischild on Feb 21, 2006 0:19:38 GMT -5
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you plant! ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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Post by Smangii on Feb 21, 2006 15:38:33 GMT -5
"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
-Albert Camus
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says; 'I need you because I love you."
-Erich Fromm
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Post by hischild on Feb 23, 2006 0:15:11 GMT -5
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. ~~~Mahatma Gandhi~~~
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