Quotes that Speak to Me
Submitted by kadin on Tue, 06/07/2005 - 12:49
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- "You are smiling so much, there must be a deep pain that you're hiding."
- - Serving Crazy with Curry by Amulya Malladi
- "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
- - Sir James Barrie, Scottish dramatist (1860-1937).
- “I think about time for fun,
- I think about time for play,
- I think about being done,
- With no resume.”
- - What About Everything?, lyrics by Barry Privett
- "God never meant for this day to be perfect.
- Had He meant for that, there would be no tomorrow.
- An imperfect world is a perfect world --
- It allows you to perfect it to your dreams and desires."
- - Mahdad Koosh
- "The flower that blooms in adversity, is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
- -The Emperor, Mulan
- "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
- -Edward Everett Hale or Helen Keller (I've seen it credited to both)
- "He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God"
- -Aeschylus
- "How you wish the weight of the world
- Would unleash your shooting star
- ...
- How quickly dreams rearrange
- When constellations are at war
- ...
- Did the myth of greatness
- Leave your side
- With no desire to defend?"
- -Texas Stars, lyrics by Barry Privett
I love these quotes. I find sometimes quotes of this type can be trite, or missing a bigger picture. These speak to me as well.