you can call it what you want quotes, thoughts. Things people have said that really make you stop and think... let me know some of yours 2008-08-18T07:34:05-04:00 34 2008-07-30T02:59:47-04:00 true 0 5738 false false 6831 1217 1 2009-11-21T07:11:23-05:00 551 "People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love." "If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?" "People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown." "The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open." (all by Chuck Palahniuk) If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it. Sylvia Boorstein Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau On life's journey Faith is nourishment, Virtuous deeds are a shelter, Wisdom is the light by day and Right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life nothing can destroy him; If he has conquered greed nothing can limit his freedom. ... Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau 5738 Post 2008-07-30T03:01:35-04:00 148993 1217 2008-07-30T03:01:35-04:00 tattooed on my leg.. It is good to have an end to journey towards, but n the end it´s the journey that matters. 5738 Post 2008-07-30T03:09:03-04:00 148995 2879 2008-07-30T03:09:03-04:00 The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw 5738 Post 2008-07-30T03:23:36-04:00 148999 997 2008-07-30T03:23:36-04:00 <blockquote><cite>heavyprints said:</cite> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw</blockquote> sweet I like it 5738 Post 2008-07-30T03:43:17-04:00 149004 1217 2008-07-30T03:43:17-04:00 my mates dad said this over the top of his newspaper the other day- made us all smile: 'be careful of pride, it is an odd thing. Never be proud of something that is out of your control: race, skin colour, ethnicity etc....you have no say in these things...rather, you should be proud in your achievements..things you strive to acomplish...' In all my years of collecting quotes, good advice etc- I know this one thing: its all good for saying in bars to impress friends and girls...but one very rarely, very very rarely adheres to it and uses it. hahahah, in fact as Oscar Wilde once said: 'advice is only good for passing on to others'. 5738 Post 2008-07-30T04:05:56-04:00 149013 2802 2008-07-30T04:05:56-04:00 "Say what you mean and mean what you say. Because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter won't mind." Dr. Suess 5738 Post 2008-07-30T04:37:19-04:00 149038 1888 2008-07-30T04:37:19-04:00 "You should really leave the lid on the sauce bottle before shaking it son" - My Nan 5738 Post 2008-07-30T05:40:03-04:00 149074 4486 2008-07-30T05:40:03-04:00 just do it. dont think, just act. 5738 Post 2008-07-30T05:59:04-04:00 149085 2865 2008-07-30T05:59:04-04:00 Don't be so humble, you're not that great! 5738 Post 2008-07-30T06:05:35-04:00 149093 3912 2008-07-30T06:05:51-04:00 "Son, don't put your hat up Where you can't reach it. It makes no sense" Junior Murvin 5738 Post 2008-07-30T06:08:45-04:00 149095 4486 2008-07-30T06:08:45-04:00 <blockquote><cite>hunty said:</cite> "Son, don't put your hat up Where you can't reach it. It makes no sense" Junior Murvin</blockquote> if you put it up there- you can get it down again. 5738 Post 2008-07-30T06:09:51-04:00 149096 2802 2008-07-30T06:09:51-04:00 Actually anything from Cool Out Son :D 5738 Post 2008-07-30T06:13:28-04:00 149098 4486 2008-07-30T06:13:28-04:00 "we must believe in free will - we have no choice." -isaac bashevis singer 5738 Post 2008-08-14T20:58:44-04:00 164292 884 2008-08-14T20:58:44-04:00 "If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill "Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!" - Vince Lombardi 5738 Post 2008-08-14T21:05:17-04:00 164296 4344 2008-08-14T21:05:17-04:00 "Oh, when the rain fall, fall, fall now, It don't fall on one man's housetop. Remember that." -Bob Marley 5738 Post 2008-08-14T22:10:08-04:00 164330 6141 2008-08-14T22:10:08-04:00 Keeps me going: "Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas A. Edison 5738 Post 2008-08-14T22:25:30-04:00 164348 3769 2008-08-14T22:25:30-04:00 "the past is only the future with the lights on" -plus 44 "yesterday's history, tomorrows a mystery, its all about today" -Some movie..? 5738 Post 2008-08-14T23:30:10-04:00 164415 1876 2008-08-14T23:30:26-04:00 "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" - Albert Einstein "Why be in the navy, if you can be a pirate" - Steve Jobs on illegal file sharing 5738 Post 2008-08-14T23:36:43-04:00 164426 297 2008-08-14T23:37:02-04:00 my other personal fav: "If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense" 5738 Post 2008-08-14T23:38:50-04:00 164427 3769 2008-08-14T23:38:50-04:00 <blockquote><cite>birdie3431 said:</cite> "yesterday's history, tomorrows a mystery, its all about today" -Some movie..?</blockquote> "yesterday's history, tomorrows a mystery, today is a gift, that is why it's called the present" -Kung Fu Panda 5738 Post 2008-08-14T23:41:11-04:00 164429 6141 2008-08-14T23:41:32-04:00 <blockquote><cite>image620 said:</cite> <blockquote><cite>birdie3431 said:</cite> "yesterday's history, tomorrows a mystery, its all about today" -Some movie..?</blockquote> "yesterday's history, tomorrows a mystery, today is a gift, that is why it's called the present" -Kung Fu Panda</blockquote> haha nah i think the one i heard was off of "21" cause ive never seen kung fu panda 5738 Post 2008-08-14T23:52:11-04:00 164439 1876 2008-08-14T23:52:11-04:00 "People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown." - Chuck Palahniuk 5738 Post 2008-08-15T01:52:09-04:00 164600 1217 2008-08-15T01:52:09-04:00 Not really inspirational but I LOVE this quote. "Go to Heaven for the climate and go to Hell for the company" Twain 5738 Post 2008-08-15T04:03:31-04:00 164705 2314 2008-08-15T04:03:31-04:00 Maybe not inspirational...but... "I got rid of my teeth at a young age because... I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them." -Master Shake "Note to some ladies out there, if your hideous by birth, no ammount of mascara or receding hem line is going to solve mother natures little gift, blame your parents." -Todd Richards 5738 Post 2008-08-15T04:59:03-04:00 164756 6102 2008-08-15T04:59:03-04:00 Why did I write “Eat It”? Because I wanted to buy a house… It worked. — WEIRD AL YANKOVIC 5738 Post 2008-08-16T13:57:17-04:00 166211 297 2008-08-16T13:57:17-04:00 Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (there are a ton of quotes to take from this guy, the whole thing is inspirational!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo 5738 Post 2008-08-16T15:57:02-04:00 166328 285 2008-08-16T15:57:59-04:00 "When life gives you lemons put them in your tea and thank God you are a southern girl" “Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.”- Victor Hugo "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.”-Emo Phillips “Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?”-Emo (again) “Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.” 5738 Post 2008-08-16T21:43:49-04:00 166538 433 2008-08-16T21:43:49-04:00 "big whoop" 5738 Post 2008-08-16T21:57:32-04:00 166544 881 2008-08-16T21:57:32-04:00 “I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." -William S. Burroughs "Nothing is true, everything is permitted"-Burroughs again “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”- Aleister Crowley "Love is the Law, Love under Will"-Crowley “The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.” H. P. Lovecraft 5738 Post 2008-08-16T22:07:15-04:00 166551 173 2008-08-16T22:07:15-04:00 Best. Comic. Ever. <img src="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109790/myImages/ch951231.jpg"> & "If the world were run by monkeys — not just any monkeys, mind you, but monkeys with the power to unite nations and resolve previously insurmountable problems — I bet we humans would still ridicule them for their bright-red hineys." Lisa Hollstegge (i'm not sure who she is, but i found it while exploring tumblr haha) 5738 Post 2008-08-16T22:52:38-04:00 166570 297 2008-08-16T23:03:53-04:00 <blockquote><cite>conor said:</cite> Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (there are a ton of quotes to take from this guy, the whole thing is inspirational!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo</blockquote> Such an amazing view. Everyone should watch it. 5738 Post 2008-08-17T17:00:47-04:00 167088 1995 2008-08-17T17:00:47-04:00 <blockquote><cite>birdie3431 said:</cite> "the past is only the future with the lights on" -plus 44 </blockquote> I love that line also 5738 Post 2008-08-18T02:12:39-04:00 167586 1698 2008-08-18T02:12:57-04:00 we are all just simple minds doing things simply! 5738 Post 2008-08-18T02:21:04-04:00 167595 6741 2008-08-18T02:21:04-04:00 "I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.” - Lucille Ball 5738 Post 2008-08-18T07:34:05-04:00 167736 6831 2008-08-18T07:34:05-04:00