A Quote a Day........

Xander81 · 29-01-2015 8:31am

"When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean."
—Lin-Chi

Lance06 · 29-01-2015 9:58am

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
-Peter Drucker

Paddy Samurai · 29-01-2015 3:12pm

A couple from Robert Mccammon

“Even the most worthless thing in the world can be beautiful, it just takes the right touch”

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“The same river can never be crossed twice. The flowing water has no memory of footprints.”

Stinjy · 30-01-2015 3:13am

I like this, in the response to being asked " are you happy?"

- "I've no reason to be unhappy, and that is almost the same"

It's very appropriate at the moment.

GerB40 · 30-01-2015 3:18am

A country grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit it. -Greek proverb.

Asarlai · 30-01-2015 4:11am

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

Howard Thurman

retro:electro · 06-02-2015 4:31pm

"There is no greater sorrow in life than while in present grief, remembering past happiness"

Dante Alighieri

bottlebrush · 06-02-2015 4:39pm

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't - you're right

Henry Ford

kimmykins · 10-02-2015 7:37am

'There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind'
-C.S. Lewis

Mr.Buzz · 10-02-2015 9:14am

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien

Aenaes · 07-03-2015 2:25pm

"A life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great ones." - Roald Dahl.

SepTomBer · 12-03-2015 8:06am

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." - Abraham Lincoln

FaulknersFav · 13-03-2015 11:00am

"i feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth" - William Faulkner

That moment everyday where I feel just a tiny little bit lost in it all!

GastroBoy · 13-03-2015 12:22pm

- Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life - Terry Pratchett

Stinjy · 13-03-2015 11:15pm

"However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at it. While there's life there's hope" - Stephen Hawking

Chrome342 · 17-04-2015 9:01am

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Mr.Nice Guy · 17-04-2015 6:56pm

"When I came back to Dublin I was court-martialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."

- Brendan Behan

TCDStudent1 · 18-04-2015 8:42pm

“Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.”

- Muhammed Ali

Tomagotchye · 18-04-2015 8:45pm

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes..." - Oscar Wilde

bottlebrush · 18-04-2015 11:46pm

When somebody shows you their true colours, believe them the first time.(Me)

Mr.Nice Guy · 20-04-2015 6:08pm

Heard this one today and I'm going to try to keep it in mind next time I find myself in an argument...

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."

- Jonathan Swift

The Princess Bride · 01-05-2015 12:35am

There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words and still not understand you.
And there are others who will understand without you even speaking a word

catallus · 12-05-2015 11:03pm

If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly. Chamfort.

Paddy Samurai · 20-05-2015 2:58pm

Just a couple that I like from my current book.

“Faith, “ Bick said “gives a thing power .Belief is one of the most powerful assets mankind possesses. It’s a damn shame so few folks take advantage of it. Of course the world is set up to make it hard to believe, really believe – that’s part of the elegant trap of it.”

This is a world made for mortals. It has rules , restrictions upon the divine and spiritual. Creation is a beautiful tapestry , a gift and a guide from the ineffable to the mortal ,but in the end it is man’s world and men alone must decide their faith and the worlds. They decide it through their behaviour , their choices ,their deeds and their discipline.

Thomas_. · 21-05-2015 11:00am

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

Just a couple that I like from my current book.

" “Faith, “ Bick said “gives a thing power .Belief is one of the most powerful assets mankind possesses."

Reminded me on a sequence in the film "Into the Storm" where FDR says to Churchill "belief is power, doubt cramps energy ...".

echo beach · 21-05-2015 11:10pm

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

Just a couple that I like from my current book.

Is that a book you're reading or one you're writing?:)

Eramen · 31-05-2015 3:15am

"What we are looking for is what is looking."

- Francis of Assisi

The Princess Bride · 03-07-2015 6:56pm

After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves, if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?

Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains Of The Day.

Eramen · 03-07-2015 8:00pm

“Truth told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.”

– William Blake

sipstrassi · 04-07-2015 8:03am

From that day forward she lived happily ever after. Except for the dying at the end. And the heartbreak in between.
- Lucius Shepard, The Scalehunters Beautiful Daughter

A Quote a Day........

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