What's your favorite quote?

[Curious_in_Cali]

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
~ Pablo Picasso

 

[Sir_Hadrian]

I have several. But today would be;

"This guy keeps screamin'! He's paranoid. Quick! Someone get his ass another steroid!" -Jimmy 'B-Rabbit' Smith

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

"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 a Kempis

 

[Lord_Michael]

"I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap."

-- Bob Hope

 

[gypsy*seer]

"Someone I loved gave me a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift."

Mary Oliver

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

"Someone I loved gave me a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift."

Mary Oliver

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

"I see nobody on the road," said Alice.
"I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too!"
~ Lewis Carroll

 

[naughtabell]

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank

I remember reading that quote in a math book of all places when I was in 7th grade. It definitely struck me. All that Anne Frank went through and at her age this was the attitude she maintained...pretty incredible.

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
~ Rachel Carson

 

[Lord_Michael]

"There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves."

-- Will Rogers

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

~ Alex Haley

 

[Lord_Michael]

“We think in generalities, but we live in detail.”

--Alfred North Whitehead

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

~ E.E. Cummings

 

[Lord_Michael]

"Women and elephants never forget."

--Dorothy Parker

 

[knot_sweet]

my new one for today

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this is to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be" - Douglas Adams

 

[Lord_Michael]

"Don't look back. You're not going that way."

--Old Vaquero saying

 

[ShyHalie]

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

'Red' played by Morgan Freeman, The Shawshank Redemption

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
~ H. Jackson Browne

 

[Lord_Michael]

Frank Moses (Bruce Willis): It's not that bad. People get shot all the time.
Sarah Ross (Mary-Louise Parker): No they don't. They get paper cuts.
Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich): I mostly get shot.

-- Red

 

[Oubliette123]

"Someone I loved gave me a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift."

Mary Oliver

 

[Oubliette123]

'' To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression''

Marina Abramovic

 

[Lord_Michael]

"It is quite true what philosophers say: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other proposition: that it must be lived forwards."

--Soren Kierkegaard

 

[Lord_Michael]

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."

-- Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Boscombe Valley Mystery")

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

If you're going through hell, keep going.
~ Winston Churchill

 

[Nick0311]

Fuck me beautiful.