Favorite meaningful quotes?
Lately often when I have been feeling down I have found that I like to read through quotes, searching for something to help lift me up. So in doing so, that got me to thinking: do any of you have any favorite quotes? Quotes that hold a lot of meaning to you as a person? Maybe just something that makes you laugh, something that inspires confidence, or something that just really makes you think? It can be anything from spoken word, poetry, song lyrics, ect.
Some that I like:
"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom." - Charles Spurgeon
"There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why." - William Barclay
"I've learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom... how great is that?" - Soledad O'Brien
"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for" - Dag Hammarskjold
"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do." - Henry Ford
"When I was 5 years old my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “Happy”. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
"The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done." - George Carlin
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I love those quotes you posted btw
"It's hard enough fighting a war...It's even harder knowing that no matter how hard you try, you can't save them all."
-Captain Anderson, Mass Effect 3
It has multiple meanings.
That John Lennon one is great.
I'll just go with this one for now.
"The edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." -Hunter S Thompson
One that changed my philosophy forever.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover’d country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.–Soft you now!
"We're all broken, that's how the light gets in." -Ernest Hemingway
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." ~ Dr. Seuss
"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?" ~ Dr. Seuss
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone who's weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love." ~ Dr. Seuss
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." ~ Dr. Seuss
"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You." ~ Dr. Seuss
"So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed)." ~ Dr. Seuss
"If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too." ~ Dr. Seuss
"If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good." ~ Dr. Seuss
"I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights." ~ Dr. Seuss
"You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?" ~ Dr. Seuss
"Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered." ~ Dr. Seuss
"When you think things are bad,
when you feel sour and blue,
when you start to get mad...
you should do what I do!
Just tell yourself, Duckie,
you're really quite lucky!
Some people are much more...
oh, ever so much more...
oh, muchly much-much more
unlucky than you!" ~ Dr. Seuss
"With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street." ~ Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss was a great man.
I wonder what Seuss would think of the movie adaptations of his books.
He'd be very disappointed.
Well...for most of them yes. But a little few are okay.
"To be ignorant is a crime in of itself."
"The most frightening thing in this world is those who believe they are right."
"For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wow, that's an awesome quote, i really like it
I'm going to sound like a wuss for this but, when I first found this I teared up when reading it for no reason.
Actually when i read it i felt a lump in my throat,i've seen lots of quotes with a similar meaning, but there's something special about this one.
It really reminds me of some of the bad things I've done with my life so far, that might be why its so special to me.
It also reminds me of myself
fuck!, fuck!, fuck!, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckk!!!!! -Kenny
"One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires a ballast, in order to keep straight on course." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"Sometimes too he wondered if moral doubts had not sharpened his senses to the point of morbidness." - Kawabata Yasunari
"The proper subject for love is one's equal, seeing as the essence of love is to be mutual, and the lesser cannot produce anything greater than itself. Seeing the image of himself, man recognizes it and loves it out of fitting and justifiable amour propre; such a love is based on understanding, trust, and commonality." - Germaine Greer
"Then speak and stammer, 'this is my good, this do I love, thus does it please me entirely, thus only do I desire the good. It is an earthly virtue that I love, there is little prudence in it, and least of all the reason of every man." - Friedrich Nietzsche
wipes genuine tear That was beautiful. :')
"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." - Forrest Gump.
“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” - Alexander Graham Bell
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake.” - Elbert Hubbard
"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions." - Ronald Reagan
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." - Ronald Reagan
“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” - Lewis Carroll
“I’ve had a lot of trouble in my life—most of which never happened.” - Mark Twain
I have several other quotes, but these few are what comes to mind usually.
"This is Sparta."
I love the first one. Not something I currently live by, unfortunately.