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[NF] Quote Thread: Express your feelings or thoughts with a quote

Sparrow

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“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” -Oprah Winfrey
 

Sparrow

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To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To hope is to risk pain.
To try is to risk failure, But risk must be taken,
Because the greatest hazard in life Is to risk nothing

- Leo Buscaglia
 
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"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition." - Carl Sagan

"Individually, the audience is an idiot. Collectively, it is a genius." - Samuel Goldwyn

"Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand." - Mark Twain

"Most people have the will to win. Few have the will to prepare to win." - Bobby Knight

"Man has never invented a labor-saving device, because more efficient production begets higher expectations." - EffEmDoubleyou
 

mmhmm

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"i have never been forced to accept compromises but i have willingly accepted constraints." - charles eames
 

Vasilisa

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I thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables, I thought about my small victories and everything I’d seen destroyed. I’d swum through mink coats on my parents’ bed while they hosted downstairs, I’d lost the only person with whom I could have spent my only life, I’d left behind a thousand tonnes of marble from which I could have released sculptures, I could have released myself from the marble of myself, I’d experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough?

Jonathan Safran Foer
 

strawberries

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whatever talents i possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. i can with ease become an ordinary fool. i may be one now. but it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity. - dylan thomas
 

Sparrow

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"We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change."

— Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend
 

Vasilisa

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I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

Sylvia Plath
 

Alchemiss

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"Why should we use all our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money." -- Brenda Ueland

"My business is not to remake myself,
But make the absolute best of what God made." -- Robert Browning
 

Vasilisa

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I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more. It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
 

Sparrow

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Take calculated risks.
That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton
 

Jaguar

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The truth will set you free but first it will piss you off. -- Gloria
Steinham
 

Vasilisa

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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.

Thomas Stearns Eliot
 

rav3n

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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. ~ Anais Nin
 
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Sniffles

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Inner purpose is more important than politics. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A little integrity is better than any career. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
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Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future. - Lord Acton
 

Zoom

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. ~Mark Twain
 

Vasilisa

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I have lived, somehow, from day to day; and so I describe it, from day to day, as I have struggled to get a meaning from my failures and successes. Not that my conclusions have been profound. But even the most trivial happenings may carry a certain weight.

William Carlos Williams
 

Quay

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"Diamonds are coals under pressure." -Lorraine Hansberry
 

DiscoBiscuit

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"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'"

- Shakes -
 
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