Quotes/Passages to live by (goosebumping inducing is preferable)

Greentopia

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henri David Thoreau

Works for me

I see how true this one is a lot on fora debate threads:

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence.
Bertrand Russell

csallmighty

"I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die." - Mr. Garrison

LoonyLovegood

I think Meangadh and I went to the same school.

My personal favourite is a song lyric.

"This place we live, it is not where we belong." Hayley Williams

twinytwo

"The main reason santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live" - george carlin:D

Pumpkinseeds

''Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

handlemaster

stand and deliver

Adam and the Ants

robbiezero

Obvious one. William Ernest Henley, Invictus.

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

rmnrgn

A person only needs two things in life, a good pair of shoes and a good bed. If he's not in one he's in the other.

jeff bingham

'You don't always get what you wish for, you get what you work for'
unknown

'Even the best fall down sometimes. But only the best get right back up'
Adam Breneman

'Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated'
Confucius

The_Gatsby

I know this is a video but I wanted to quote it all. It makes me think about so much

Wildlife Actor

Love is the demand to be loved

Sartre

Push Pop

I think it was Roosevelt who said this:
'Its amazing what one can achieve when one does not care about who gets the credit' or something to that effect.
I keep saying that to my co workers and it seems to hit home. We all know people that this can apply to.

spankysue

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans" from Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) by John Lennon.

Daveysil15

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Bruce Lee

Cherry Blossom Girl

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

moss.ie

Try not. Do or do not!! There is no try

Yoda

Wurly

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.' Wayne Dyer.

"Whether you believe you can or you can, either way, you're right". Henry Ford.

genuine leather

As you walk, eat and travel,be where you are, otherwise you will miss most of your life.... buddha

genuine leather

As you walk,eat and travel.be where you are, otherwise you will miss most of your life........buddha

bit of a bogey

You can be on the right track but if you dont keep moving you'll get hit by a train.

Latchy

"It's better to have him inside the tent peeing out, then outside the tent peeing in."

President Lyndon B Johnson's opinion of J Edgar Hoover.

Airitech

A wolf doesn't lose sleep over the opinions of sheep.

grohlisagod

"You see a mouse trap, I see free cheese and fcuking challenge." - Scroobius Pip.

Clandestine

"Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened"

Naid23

Whats meant to be, wont pass you by!

Everything happens for a reason!

My granny, mam

Interrobang

"He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning." - Danish proverb

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." - Roald Dahl.

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out." - Carl Sagan.

Cedrus

God (insert preferred deity or force here),
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Norma_Desmond

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. 
- Groucho Marx

Dream as if you live forever, live as if you die today.
- James Dean

HondaSami

Little lies are sometimes necessary, if it's worth it you will learn to live with the consequences.

Legs.Eleven

"It is better to be truthful and good....than to not"

- Freddy Benson (Steve Martin)- Dirty Rotten Scroundrels.