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Post by Ghost on Mar 3, 2004 17:47:19 GMT -5
I noticed that this forum has just one page, while others have more. Time to fill up the positivity Everyone who knows a postive or funny upbeat saying or quote, post 'em. Maybe it is useful to remember others and ourselves when we're feeling a little down You can't have everything; where would you put it? ;D
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Post by Alecto on Mar 3, 2004 20:23:31 GMT -5
That sounds like a good idea. This forum really doesnt have a lot of posts. Maybe I'll get a few of the quotes I have written down, and post them sometime.
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Post by Ghost on Mar 4, 2004 12:48:35 GMT -5
A new batch of sayings/quotes:
When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have. -Kathleen A. Sutton
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. -Michael Cibenko
This is a good one:
It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before. To test your limits... to break through barriers.
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Post by Jarous on Mar 4, 2004 15:03:31 GMT -5
Great idea Ghost.
You probably want purely positive quotes, but I think it's equally necessary to be able to laugh at our own shortcomings. So here's one:
"There are only two infinite things - the Universe and human stupidity. And I am not sure on the first one." Albert Einstein
All right. Here's a positive one.
"My goal is simple - to understand the entire universe. How it began and why it is..." Stephen Hawking Now that's ambition. Sadly mister Hawking failed to achieve it. A good thing: you have a chance to do that :-)
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Post by Placido on Mar 5, 2004 22:15:49 GMT -5
I agree that there shouldn't only be positive quotes. Sometimes we can become complacent in our shyness, and need a little sting now and then. So here's one from Nietzsche:
Which I take to mean - it's not enough just to be harmless. Being good is an active, positive thing, a desire to risk and be brave to help others.
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Post by Jarous on Mar 6, 2004 2:33:41 GMT -5
it's not enough just to be harmless. Being good is an active, positive thing, a desire to risk and be brave to help others. Definitely, it's not enough to be good. You must actually do good. I have a quote on that: "All that it takes for evil to succeed is for the good men to do nothing."
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Post by Ghost on Mar 6, 2004 4:37:43 GMT -5
What about:
I intend to live forever. So far so good. ;D
And one of my fav's:
Attack life, it's gonna kill you anyway.
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Post by Jarous on Mar 6, 2004 6:03:28 GMT -5
Attack life, it's gonna kill you anyway. There's only one thing we can do about life. Smile! We won't get out of it alive anyway.
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Post by Jarous on Mar 7, 2004 7:39:42 GMT -5
Some more quotes:
Abraham H. Maslow
Dale Carnegie
Denis Waitley
Louisa Alcott
Theodore Roosevelt
Erica Jong
Harry Anderson
Hillel
Kahlil Gibran
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Post by Ghost on Mar 7, 2004 19:17:57 GMT -5
Oh! Very nice Jarous! In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. -- Anonymous People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.-- George Bernard Shaw, "Mrs. Warren's Profession," 1893 Where there is life, there is hope -- Marcus Tullius Cicero Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead: therein lies the whole art of pleasing. -- J.E de Goncourt, "Idees et Sensations," 1866 Hoping means seeing that the outcome you want is possible and then working for it. -- Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.
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Post by Jarous on Mar 8, 2004 15:40:06 GMT -5
In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. It's also said: Now, what does that tell about us? Are we afraid to loose what we are? I think that pretty paradoxical and, if true, ironic. I recon a good number of shybies isn't proud of themselves, why the hesitation to shape our personalities to our liking? Fear of the unknown, clinging to the familiar? I can colorfully imagine myself clinging to it on my death-bed. There's something to the known shore ... it feels like home. Time to leave for the world around then. And one more quote:
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Post by Jarous on Mar 12, 2004 16:44:16 GMT -5
No one has more quotes? I'll add some more then:
So true. If all of our dreams came true, what then would we live for?
Abraham Lincoln
Mandino I wonder ... what if we learned that the Earth is going to be destroyed by say a comet in 24 hours. Everyone would then live like he dies today ... can you imagine the inhumanities that would ensue? Or am I again seeing people in the worst light? Honestly, I've got not an idea what I'd do with my last day, I fear I know what the majority would though...
Hubert Humphrey
Elbert Hubbard
Braveheart
John Shedd I've heard about an old lady who flushed her money-bag into the toilet in fear it might get stolen. She got the same use of it, as Shedd of 'his ship' and we out of our lives (some times).
Maugham
Adam Smith
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Post by Nicole on Mar 13, 2004 19:54:55 GMT -5
A few favorites:
"Yes, there is Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem." -- Khalil Gibran
"No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them."
- Alan Watts (my favorite writer/thinker)
"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough." -- William Saroyan
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Post by Nicole on Mar 13, 2004 20:26:07 GMT -5
This is a poem rather than a quotation, but I'm a sucker for poetry:
O me! O life! of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the foolish, Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew'd, Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me, Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined, The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.
That you are here - that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
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Well, the formatting got screwed up, but oh well.
I'm really tempted to post one by Ferlinghetti (one of my favorite poets), but I have to go do homework.
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Post by Jarous on Mar 14, 2004 3:07:10 GMT -5
Martin Luther King Jr. Moreover, there's no such thing called 'too late.' So, do never hesitate to see your dreams come true.
John Lubbock Time to start looking for our better sides then.
Mae West Not that I agree with this one, but it's always nice to hear it, wonder why?
Vince Lombardi
Martin Luther King Jr. *sigh* So the end is near? Strange that I don't care, isn't it ironic that one can remain silent even about this fact? The question is whether that one truely matters?
Robert Schuller In plain English: It can always be worse :-)
Schuller *sigh* Such a pity, I've been becoming a champion in doing nothing.
Emily Dickinison
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