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AcousticGod Knowflake Posts: 11943 From: Pleasanton, CA, USA Registered: May 2005	posted June 14, 2005 07:38 AM Please limit yourself to one saying at a time. It's not a competition. Just a place to note what words, passages, or saying are having affect on your life right now. Do elaborate on what the words mean to you, or how they affect you, or affected you if you like. IP: Logged
AcousticGod Knowflake Posts: 11943 From: Pleasanton, CA, USA Registered: May 2005	posted June 14, 2005 07:48 AM quote: Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. -Chinese proverb IP: Logged
crystelle Knowflake Posts: 425 From: :) Registered: Aug 2002	posted June 14, 2005 08:41 AM quote: Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. Kahlil Gibran IP: Logged
Bluemoon Knowflake Posts: 4456 From: Stafford, VA USA Registered: Feb 2005	posted June 14, 2005 10:29 AM _____________________________________________ "In this world you must be 'Oh so smart' or 'Oh so pleasant.' For years I tried to be smart. May I recommend pleasantness?" _____________________________________________ Jimmy Stewart in "Harvey" My Drama teacher used this quote ALL the time. It is ingranind in my head, as he is. He still lives in my heart. IP: Logged
Saturn's Child Knowflake Posts: 867 From: Just left of center Registered: May 2004	posted June 14, 2005 10:55 AM quote: Though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely one that she couldn't reach. "The prettiest are always further!" she said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off. ~~ Lewis Carroll In Sun Signs, Linda uses this quote from Alice in Wonderland to help describe Gemini women. I think she got it! IP: Logged
future_uncertain Knowflake Posts: 2681 From: ohio Registered: Aug 2004	posted June 14, 2005 11:00 AM quote: People are just bstard covered bstards with bstard filling I heard this on Scrubs* Not a quote I live by, but it comes in handy sometimes! (Sort of a humorous way for me to see that we don't always have control over what other people say/do, and sometimes it's best just to let it go.) IP: Logged
proxieme unregistered	posted June 14, 2005 11:26 AM We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. - T.S. Eliot I know that this is taking that quote out of context, but to me it's that a) We take for granted or "do not see through familiarity" that which is close to us and/or b) That which we seek is already "here". IP: Logged
thirteen Knowflake Posts: 1107 From: Rochester Hills, MI USA Registered: May 2004	posted June 14, 2005 12:18 PM " the best one can hope for is an interesting life" I like this because i have no awsome, great, genious contributions to the world but i have had an interesting life. It resonates with me. IP: Logged
26taurus Knowflake Posts: 13411 From: * Registered: Jun 2004	posted June 14, 2005 12:46 PM This quote is my newest favorite one. There is really alot of truth to it and I've seen its effects in my own life, my brothers and many others. Not that you can blame everything on your parents or anyone else - you make your own choices - but the thoughts and words they hold about you, have a major impact on you living up to your potential or not and how you percieve yourself. Like someone said in another thread, 'people will rise or shrink to meet our expectations of them'. ------------------ "We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them." ~Elbert Hubbard IP: Logged
juniperb Knowflake Posts: 6830 From: Blue Star Kachina Registered: Mar 2002	posted June 14, 2005 02:01 PM I love this one as it is a excellent reminder that we all have different perspectives and promotes a gentleness with others. The exchange between (I believe) Pilot and The Christ when he was being questioned.... They asked him, "are you the messiah?" He responded.... "You say I am" Four simple words but now look at them as emphasis is added . "YOU say I am" (others may or may not) "you SAY I am" (you say it but you do not Know it...your heart is veiled) "you say I AM" (which is the same as the messiah...God said "I am that I am" yes). "you say I am" (why do you not accuse others? emphasis on the "I") love, ------------------ If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged
trillian Knowflake Posts: 4050 From: The Boundless Registered: Mar 2003	posted June 14, 2005 02:43 PM In posting, I am practicing #5. Instructions for Life --credited to the Dali Lama 1. Take into account that great love an great achievements involve great risk. 2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. 3. Follow the three R's: Respect for self Respect for others, and Responsibility for all your actions. 4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. 5. Learn the rules so that you know how to break them properly. 6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship. 7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it. 8. Spend some time alone each day. 9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values. 10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. 11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a 2nd time. 12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life. 13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past. 14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. 15. Be gentle with the earth. 16. Once a year, go somewhere you've never been. 17. Remember that the best relationship is the one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. 18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. 19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon. ------------------ The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine. -Indigo Girls IP: Logged
26taurus Knowflake Posts: 13411 From: * Registered: Jun 2004	posted June 14, 2005 03:59 PM Haha! Trillian, youre funny. I love those! Especially #5. What a great list. Words to live by. IP: Logged
lalalinda Moderator Posts: 3291 From: nevada Registered: Jun 2005	posted June 14, 2005 09:20 PM the heart doesn't miss what the eyes don't see old Italian proverb IP: Logged
Thorshammer Moderator Posts: 1026 From: salt lake city, utah, USA Registered: Nov 2004	posted June 14, 2005 09:42 PM "COME TO THE EDGE" "No, we will fall" "COME TO THE EDGE" "No, we will fall" They came to the edge. He pushed them, and they flew -GUILLAME APOLLINAIRE- When I read it...its me saying "we will fall" and my fear telling me to "COME TO THE EDGE" IP: Logged
AcousticGod Knowflake Posts: 11943 From: Pleasanton, CA, USA Registered: May 2005	posted June 15, 2005 07:21 AM quote: Discontent is the first necessity of progress. -Thomas Alva Edison Gives discontent a whole new feeling of hope. IP: Logged
whalewasp78 Knowflake Posts: 541 From: Missouri-Misery Registered: Apr 2004	posted June 15, 2005 09:39 AM Upon being accused of being two-faced, Abraham Lincoln said this: "If I was two-faced, do you really think I'd be using this one?" IP: Logged
trillian Knowflake Posts: 4050 From: The Boundless Registered: Mar 2003	posted June 15, 2005 10:12 AM quote: If you go down the wrong road, make a right turn. --Ebonee Chambers Douglas, age 11 ------------------ The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine. -Indigo Girls IP: Logged
26taurus Knowflake Posts: 13411 From: * Registered: Jun 2004	posted June 15, 2005 03:36 PM I love that proverb lalalinda. IP: Logged
Jonathan Gull Knowflake Posts: 69 From: the clouds Registered: May 2005	posted June 15, 2005 07:17 PM If you lived Here You'd be home by Now. IP: Logged
WaterNymph Knowflake Posts: 2276 From: London, UK Registered: May 2005	posted June 16, 2005 05:07 PM quote: It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. IP: Logged
whalewasp78 Knowflake Posts: 541 From: Missouri-Misery Registered: Apr 2004	posted June 18, 2005 01:07 AM Where did this quote come from? 'It's better to have had love lost, then to have never loved at all.' IP: Logged
lalalinda Moderator Posts: 3291 From: nevada Registered: Jun 2005	posted June 18, 2005 02:36 AM me to T IP: Logged
Heart--Shaped Cross Knowflake Posts: 7178 From: 11/6/78 11:38am Boston, MA Registered: Aug 2004	posted June 18, 2005 11:56 PM whalewasp - "It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all." - Tennyson IP: Logged
WaterNymph Knowflake Posts: 2276 From: London, UK Registered: May 2005	posted July 06, 2005 06:58 AM quote: act your age not your shoe size Prince IP: Logged
SunChild Moderator Posts: 4032 From: Australia Registered: Jan 2004	posted July 06, 2005 07:08 AM ------------------ "The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." Charles Dubois IP: Logged

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