Inspiring Quotes

[okarol]

I think Ezra Pound means that if you don't take action to change your circumstances, but just wait to be helped, it may never come. That's how I see it, but I might be reading it wrong.

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
        - Helen Keller

[jbeany]

I get Pound's thought - you have to stand and fight - but if you truly are in bondage, you might not realize there's such a thing as freedom in the first place.
Can you tell I'm studying too many legal cases?  I'm starting to argue like a lawyer....

"It is only as we fully understand opinions and attitudes different from our own and the reasons for them that we better understand our own place in the scheme of things." S.I. Hayakawa

[okarol]

Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
       – Plato

[Bruno]

May my thoughts be free of anecdotes, amphorisms and platitudes
Anon (but possibly the Greek seer Hepatitis)

[murphy]

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. _ Franklin Roosevelt

[okarol]

Alcohol: what got you into parenthood and what will get you through.
    ~unknown

[rsudock]

No one can make you feel inferior without your conscent. - Eleanor Roosevelt

[rsudock]

i love this poem....


i carry your heart with me by E. E. Cummings


i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

[rsudock]

for all the educators out there...

"Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privelege, than the raising of the next generation." -C. Everett Koop, M.D.

[KICKSTART]

If its not right ..make it right .

[okarol]

   I don't do alcohol anymore - I get the same effect just standing up fast.

                        ~Unknown

[kristina]

   War is only a cowardly escape

    from the problems of peace.

         -  Unknown –

[Marina]

quote     quote

[YLGuy]

"Don't criticize what you can't understand."
— Bob Dylan

[jbeany]

"Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor." - Scott Adams

[okarol]

If man could have half his wishes,
he would double his troubles.
        ~Benjamin Franklin

[jagermiester]

Been having a rough time the past couple of weeks and this thread was good.  I have a quote that  fits with what I am going through with some things (not physical but personal)

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley

[Riki]

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. --Albert Einstein

This quote is actually what made me decide to pursue a live donor kidney

[kristina]

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized:
                    In the first, it is ridiculed,
                  in the second, it is opposed,
      in the third, it is accepted as self-evident.

            -         Arthur Schopenhauer      -

[jbeany]

"Crazy people can make you crazy..."  Garrison Keillor, during a live performance of Prairie Home Companion's Summer Love tour, 8/12/11.

[Ladystardust24]

"My fear is my only courage"
-Bob Marley

"Mr.Meow Meow ate my tuna waffles"
- Well, I was sad once, and that was the only thing I could really think of in my head, so I blurted it out. Nowadays, I/my friends will bring up the phrase when they wish for a cheer up.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace 

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain


Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais Nin

You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

[Gandalf]

Character is Destiny - Heraclitus

[jbeany]

You don't have to attend every argument you're invited to. 
Anon.

[Desert Dancer]

This hangs on my refrigerator. I think it's Robert Fulghum, but I'm not sure.

[okarol]

This hangs on my refrigerator. I think it's Robert Fulghum, but I'm not sure.

Looks like it may be Kent Nerburn http://thinkexist.com/quotation/remember_to_be_gentle_with_yourself_and_others-we/255716.html