Quotes are fun!

Share some of your favorite quotes.

"I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.'' - Mother Teresa

I have a couple books of quotes, so I could probably fill up this thread.

But one of the best is, of course:
"While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable we will not surrender it to Him. What then can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible source of false happiness?"
- C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

"Well-read people are less likely to be criminals." - Lemony Snicket

Strider1002 wrote:

I have a couple books of quotes, so I could probably fill up this thread.

Books of quotes that you've collected or books of quotes that someone else collected and printed?
I have a few small collections of quotes that I've typed on my computer, and a Lemony Snicket quote book, and I think a Mark Twain one on my kindle. =)

Dandelions in the Rain wrote:

Books of quotes that you've collected or books of quotes that someone else collected and printed?
I have a few small collections of quotes that I've typed on my computer, and a Lemony Snicket quote book, and I think a Mark Twain one on my kindle. =)

One is Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, and I have an older book that's very much like it, and then there's a collection of the best quotes ever in two lines or less... that one has a lot of my highlighter in it

I'll post a few when I get back to my place.

Emily Dickinson (1830–86).

Part One: Life


IF I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain

The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less). Great book.

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin

"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." - Thomas à Kempis

"The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson." - Anonymous

Guy Incognito wrote:

"I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.'' - Mother Teresa

^
I laughed so so hard!




"It is not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless."
-L.R. Knost

This is a very long quote but worth posting!!

He was the meekest and lowliest of all the sons of men, yet he spoke of coming on the clouds of heaven with the glory of God. He was so austere that evil spirits and demons cried out in terror at his coming, yet he was so genial and winsome and approachable that the children loved to play with him, and the little ones nestled in his arms. His presence at the innocent gaiety of a village wedding was like the presence of sunshine.

No one was half so compassionate to sinners, yet no one ever spoke such red hot scorching words about sin. A bruised reed he would not break, his whole life was love, yet on one occasion he demanded of the Pharisees how they ever expected to escape the damnation of hell. He was a dreamer of dreams and a seer of visions, yet for sheer stark realism He has all of our stark realists soundly beaten. He was a servant of all, washing the disciples feet, yet masterfully He strode into the temple, and the hucksters and money changers fell over one another to get away from the mad rush and the fire they saw blazing in His eyes.

He saved others, yet at the last Himself He did not save. There is nothing in history like the union of contrasts which confronts us in the gospels. The mystery of Jesus is the mystery of divine personality.

– James Stewart, Scottish theologian

How much of these were actually said by these people or simply given credit to.... who knows.

“I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.” - Kurt Cobain

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are” - Kurt Cobain

“Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird.” Kurt Cobain

“There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too sad.” Kurt Cobain

“There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.” - Kurt Cobain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. -Mark Twain

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place. - Mark Twain

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't. - Mark Twain

All we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. ~ Buddha

“I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full.” - Ravi Zacharias

I've found it to be true...

"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the (heck) she is."
Ellen DeGeneres

Thanks Strider for Ravi's quote. I heart him and his heart for The Lord.

Here is quote from an equally famous and very eloquent....

Pooh - "think it over, think it under."
: )

"Forever is a long long time." - Pooh

“I bid the chords sweet music make,
And all must follow in my wake.” -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All you Pooh quoters need to get on board with the BEST character in that show

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I love those Amber!!

I post this to educate the people who do not understand that there are individuals such as this. Step outside of yourself and think!
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LOL I do this more then I should.
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I love that last one Ethie!

"There is no spoon." - The Matrix

"Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there. But if you were very, very hungry, and you had no way of obtaining money, it might be excusable to grab the painting, take it to your house, and eat it." - Lemony Snicket