Quotable Quotes

[Daniel]

Lately, the lyrics below have been motivating for curtailing negative self-talk:

Drink up baby down
Hmm, are you in or are you out
Leave your things behind
'Cos it's all going off without you

Excuse me too busy
Writing your tragedy
These mishaps you bubble-wrap [my favorite line]
When you've no idea what you're like

So let go, So let go jump in
Oh well what you waiting for
It's alright
'Cos there's beauty in the breakdown

...

Such boundless pleasure
We've no time for later now
You can't await your own arrival
You've twenty seconds to comply

--some lyrics from "Let Go" by Frou Frou

Anyway, the song is fairly popular, and I listen to it a lot when doing chores.

[Cat Dancer]

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
-Mother Teresa

Happiness is a form of courage.
~Holbrook Jackson

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
~Dalai Lama

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
~Berke Breathed

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

Today you are you.
That is truer than true!
There is no one alive
who is you-er than you!
Dr. Seuss

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
~Barbara Bloom

[Cat Dancer]

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
-Abraham Heschel

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
-George Washington Carver

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
-Corita Kent

[David Baxter]

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.
-- Winston Churchill

When you are going through hell, keep going.
-- Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
-- Winston Churchill

[RBM]

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.
-Lord of the Rings:FotR

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
-Lord of the Rings:FotR

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.
-Napoleon Hill

Few minds wear out; most rust out.
-Bovee

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."
-William Durant

Do your thing!
-Me

[Cat Dancer]

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough."
- Frank Crane

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
-Elbert Hubbard

[Cat Dancer]

Peace.
It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work.
It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.
--Unknown


Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are
-- Rachel Naomi Remen

[ThatLady]

"I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then".
-Lewis Carroll

This simple concept has helped me more than I can say; although, I didn't know Lewis Caroll said it. I just realized that the person I was is not the person I am, and the person I am is not the person I will be. How can you blame someone for doing something you consider "bad" when that someone no longer exists. All you have to work with is who you are today. The past is gone, and the person you were then has passed with it.

[Cat Dancer]

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
~John Cage

What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.
~Author Unknown

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.
~Author unknown, variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
~John Lennon

Every now and then everybody is entitled to too much perfection.
~from the movie Bed of Roses

[Cat Dancer]

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing;
the last of the human freedoms,
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
--Viktor Frankl


The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
--William Wordsworth


You can only go halfway into the darkest forest; then you are coming out the other side.
--Chinese proverb