Words of Wisdom

[FarrIL]

"A positive mentality is key in keeping life from moving backwards."

"As long as you have something good to look forward to, there is no reason to stay down."

[soothsayer]

Here is one my Dad said:

"If you think about all the grains of sand on a beach.... then you think about all the trees in all the forests....  then all the stars in the sky... then you think about all the people..."

???

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Where the fuck was he going with this???? :laughing

[FarrIL]

Imagine this..... you are talking with a teenager about self-mutilation. You tell them you've been through the same problem and the teenager wishes to find out how you "got over" your problem.

Merely lift up a part of your clothing to reveal a tattoo and say "I found something better to do with my time."

(( This is a personal reference. I have had, and i should say still DO have a self-harming problem, but I prefer pulling through it by contemplating what tattoos I want to get and where. Also, I wouldnt mind being a pierced and tattooed counselor/ psychologist, telling kids these things. ;3 ))

[paradox]

when youre a kid, you think that there will be some point in your life wher you become a grown up.

now that im a grown up i realize we are all just kids in grown up bodies.

[Daevion]

when youre a kid, you think that there will be some point in your life wher you become a grown up.

now that im a grown up i realize we are all just kids in grown up bodies.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

whats this "grown up" thing you speak of?

:laughing

[Lilith]

ENJOY AND APPERCAITE YOUR YOUTH, dont try to grow up so fast.

said by ever parent

lilith

[lullaby1031]

" Give the advice that you yourself are willing to take"

[Senay]

"Let not sorrow darken your heart, but let it teach you wisdom."

Don't remember where I got that.

[Head Wreck]

ooh thats a god ne senay

i dont have many words of wisdom but heres how i go

dont be a cunt, be as honourable as you can be, cos when your dead your family will apreciate the turnout at the wake

[FarrIL]

"Dont accuse me of acting childish and tell me that I dont know what happens in the world. I have an idea of what the world can be like and I have a different way of dealing with it."

[Shade Everdark]

I don't mind giving the classics.

"This above all: to thine own self be true

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man."

-Hamlet, Act I, Scene iii, William Shakespeare

[torn asunder]

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."

- Martin Fraquhar Tupper

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."

- Yogi Berra

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. "

- George Bernard Shaw

"Those who say it can't be done should get out of the way of those who are doing it. "

- Joel Arthur Barker

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."

- Henry Ford

(ok, that's enough for now - i have 5 pages of quotes!!) :laughing :whistling

[Black Sunday9]

anything is possible.....when you don't know the facts.

some things are difficult to see.....when you're not looking at them.

[JaneDead]

"money isn't everything- it can't buy poverty"

-joe e. lewis

"nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could"

"if you stand for nothing you will fall for anything"

"i am more important than my problems"

-jose ferrer

"if you think education is expensive, try ignorance"

-berek bok

"great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind"

-emily p. bissell

"you don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. you can only decide how you are going to live"

- joan baez

"we are not rich by what we possess but rather what we can live without"

- immanuel kant

"a woman is like a tea bag; you never know her stength until you drop her in hot water"

- nancy reagan

"learn the wisdom of compromise. for it is better to bend a little than to break"

- jane wells

"opportunities are usually disguised by hard work so most people don't recognize them"

- ann landers

"life is not always based on the answers we receive but also the questions that we ask"

"it is easier to build a child than to fix an adult"

"two wrongs dont make a right but three rights make a left"

"walk arm in arm even if you don't see eye to eye"

"some of us have got it all together we just forgot where we put it"

"if you don't practice what you teach then you are teaching something else"

"let us not pray for lighter burdens but for stronger backs"

"when your dreams turn to dust, vacuum"

"live life with an exclamation not explanation"

"some people march to a different drummer and some polka"

(That one was for phee)

"expirence is the worst teacher- it gives the test before presenting the lesson"

- vernon law

"no one can make you feel inferior without your consent"

- eleanor roosevelt

"in the space age the most important space is between the ears"

- thomas j. barlow

"in order to succeed we must first believe we can"

- michael korda

"age is not important unless you're a cheese"

-helen hayes

(that one was for brenda)

"he who knows others is clever, he who knows himself is enlightened"

- lao-tzu

"every exit is an entry somewhere else"

-tom stoppard

"do or do not. there is no try"

- yoda

""u" is in the middle of all excuses"

"insanity is doing the same thing over and over each time expecting a different result"

-A.A.

"The future is purchased by the present"

- samuel johnson

"we must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life thats is waiting for us"

-joesph campbell

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffereing out of a fear of the unknown, they perfer suffering that is familiar."

-thich nhat hanh

"what lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us"

-ralph waldo emerson

"life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"

-john lennon

"in youth we learn. in old age we understand"

-marie von ebner-eschenbach

"may your body leave your soul before your soul leaves your body"

"if you fail to plan, you plan to fail"

"people become attatched to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attatched to them"

- george bernard shaw

"never explain-- your friends dont need it and your enemies wont believe you anways"

-elbert hubbard

"everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it"

-alfred north whitehead

"going to church doesnt make you a christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile"

-billy sunday

"faith is believing what you know ain't so"

-mark twain

"an eye for an eye only leads to more blindness"

-margaret atwood

"our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.

we have guided missles and misguided men"

-martin luther king jr.

"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

"sometimes it is better to look for sympathy in the dictionary. at least you can always find it there"

"the most pathetic person in the world is one who has thier sight but still has no vision"

-helen keller

"i used to have a handle on life but it broke"

"i'm not a complete idiot. some parts are missing"

"stupidity is not a handicap. park elsewhere"

"worrying is like a rocking chair. it gives you something to do but doesn't get you anywhere"

"religion is for those who do what they are told, regardless of what is right. spirituality is for those who do what is right, regardless of what they are told"

"dont take life too seriously. you'll never escape it alive anyway"

"a facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought"

-lord peter wimsey

[Brenda Starrr]

You can't eat it if it's been on the floor for more than 5 seconds.

[Head Wreck]

what doesnt kill you makes you stronger...

...except polio, tebercalosis, heart failure, loss of limb.....

[torn asunder]

"if you don't practice what you teach then you are teaching something else"

i don't practice what i preach, because i'm not the sort of person i'm preaching to! - (can't remember who...) :whistling

[FarrIL]

My friend Kalise said this one.......

"I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I pretend to be."

[JaneDead]

i like that one ^

[LadyWindstone]

Laurell K. Hamilton quotes to live by...

"People are supposed to fear he unknown, but ignorance is a bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening." - Anita in The Laughing Corpse

"Worrying about your bodyguard is not good." Anita in The Killing Dance

"It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line." Dolph in Burnt Offerings

"Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human." Anita in Burnt Offerings

"Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun." Anita in Cerulean Sins (my personal favorite)

"Guarantees are for appliances, not for murder." Anita in Incubus Dreams (another favorite of mine)

[granted]

never close your fist around lit firecrackers

[LadyWindstone]

More Laurell K. Hamilton quotes to live by....

"The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster."

"Most magic isn't overly harmful any more than a buzz saw is harmful, but they can both kill you."

ok I'm done for the moment.

[soothsayer]

"Success is measured by the number of people you offend." ~ - George Bernard Shaw

[Shade Everdark]

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde