Inspiring Quotes

[meadowlandsnj]

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the
fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."
Jim Morrison

This is one of my all time favorite quotes.  It's so true.  We all live our lives in fear.  We're controlled by our fears.  The fear of being rejected so we do things we wouldn't ordinarily do in order for people to like us.  The fear of being different from anybody else so we blindly follow fashion and become little cookie cutter copies of each other.  The fear of not being loved so we stick ourselves in meaningless relationships that lead nowhere.  We're afraid to be OURSELVES, individuals.  We're afraid to feel pain and loss but feeling pain and loss makes us alive--we die when we don't feel anything.  We're afraid to feel because that's what makes us vulnerable.  Nobody wants to feel that way but dealing with it and facing it makes the pain less able to hurt us.  Facing your fear head on takes it's power away and it can't control you anymore. 

Donna   

[okarol]

Abraham Lincoln was right. “Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

[Zach]

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
--Edmund Burke

 

[okarol]

Today's Message of the Day is:

Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably...

And never regret anything that made you smile.

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance....     
 

[vandie]

"All of the animals except man know that the principal business in life is to enjoy it."

--Samuel Butler

[ODAT]

"If you're going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill

[petey]

"Don't give up!  Don't ever give up!"
 
    --Jim Valvano, former basketball coach at NC State University (died of bone cancer)

[livecam]

"Birds of a feather, flock together" - my dad.

[ODAT]

"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

Eric Hoffer

"As is your sort of mind, so is your sort of search: You'll find what you desire."

Robert Browning 1812-1889

"Losers curse the rain and winners sell umbrellas." (don't know who said that)

[petey]

From my late grandmother (who was a VERY proper, southern lady in public -- wore gloves to church, never wore white shoes after Labor Day or before Easter, always carried a lace handkerchief in her pocketbook, etc.):

"Pretty is as pretty does."  (I think this means that "pretty" people must also act "pretty")

"Chew with your mouth closed."

"Take your elbows off the dinner table."

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch."


And, my all-time Grandmother favorite...when she thought someone else was having only good luck and she was having only bad luck....

"That's okay because the sun won't shine on the same dog's ass all the time."

[thegrammalady]

when i was a child my mother always used to say..."can't never did anything"...the first time that came out of my mouth to my children, i went in my room and had a good cry.

[AlohaBeth]

My mom always said her mother used to tell her kids to
"Go outside and blow the stink off."

Strange strange woman. 

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A few of my favorite quotes...

"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 could say,' I used everything you gave me' "
-Erma Bombeck

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world"
-Mohandas Gandhi

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.

And a few from one of my favorite people --

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience"
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams"
-Eleanor Roosevelt

And a not quite so reverent quote from Mrs. Roosevelt...

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

    TOO FUNNY

[petey]

"Lipstick was made to be tasted and smeared."
 
     --- AlohaBeth's grandmother's former boyfriend


 

[paris]

    I think Beth is hitting her head trying to get rid of the image.

[AlohaBeth]

Oh GOD - could we not please???

[petey]

sorry, AlohaBeth -- I just couldn't resist.

[okarol]

"If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so i never have to live without you" - Winnie the Pooh

[twirl]

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance,
Baffle them with BS.

sounds like the Kitkatz I have grown to love

[twirl]

if you can not say anything good about someone, say the can whistle good

from my Youth for Christ leader      years ago

[Patton]

Whats best in life, you might ask? 

"Whats best in life is to crush your enemies,
to drive them before you, to see those whom they cherish in tears,
to take from them that which they possess,
to ride their horses,
and to hold their wives and daughters in your arms!!!"

That is GOOD!!!

[monrein]

Hunh??  What am I missing here???  Sounds barbaric. 

[Patton]

Ghengis Khan is my hero and my inspiration. This thread is labeled..."Inspiring Quotes"...so I memorized that quote a couple years ago, and decided I would give you all a taste of my personality and philosophy. 

[monrein]

To each his own Patton, however you might want to read that quote again and really analyze it in the context of Genghis Khan's life.  He lived in an undoubtedly brutal time and that would help to explain much of his own brutality but are you saying that your "personality and philosophy" include cruelty (to see those whom they cherish in tears), theft (third and fourth lines) and rape (fifth line)?  Surely you can do better than that.
Even an overwhelming need to crush enemies should not dehumanize us ourselves because if we go down that road our enemies have won and we have lost everything.  That is BAD.

If Kit's big stick was meant for me, what have I done to be whacked? 

BTW, Genghis Khan is an interesting historical figure and a fascinating one.  Let's hope your "enemies" don't also hold him as their hero and inspiration. 

[twirl]

"Stay away from the cleet chasers."
 football coach at A&M

[okarol]

George W. Comstock, an epidemiologist who helped develop strategies to prevent TB, died at 92 and summed up his philosophy of life with these words:
 
"Most of us aren't going to win any big victories, but we can win little ones every day, and they mount up."