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Inspirational quotes! So,
Inspirational quotes! So, people, this thread is where thou shalt share thy sacred quotes! Got it? Any quote works. I shall start...um...hm....got one! "What lies behind us, and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
submitted by Kit Kat
(August 26, 2009 - 6:17 pm)
(August 26, 2009 - 6:17 pm)
"Nothing is easier than to condemn the evildoer. Nothing is harder than to understand him." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
YES. SO MUCH.
(August 26, 2009 - 11:20 pm)
You actually know how to spell that guy's name??? I had to do a report on him! Dreadful.
(August 27, 2009 - 2:18 pm)
Adding "inspirational" was a good idea. We all sometimes get carried away otherwise. ;)
Let's see... "Two people may live years under the same roof and not know each other, while others meet and after one conversation are old friends."
...Wait, who said that? I can't remember.
(August 27, 2009 - 3:41 pm)
About the "one conversation" thing, that happens to me all the time, for example this boy I met at the library....*rambles* A quote? Ok.... Oh! I'll quote something my friend T said the other day when he found out I don't like Twilight!
"Wait, what?! You. Are. A. Girl. And. You. Don't. Like. Twilight? If it wouldn't look wierd, I'd give you a hug for that right now." Well duh it would look weird! We were having a conversation in the teens section of the library! lol
(August 27, 2009 - 6:14 pm)
This thread is for inspirational quotes. Yours should probably have gone on Willa's thread, since it was funny.
All of my inspirational quotes are religious, and most of them are from the Bible, so I can't really put any here. Sorry.
(August 28, 2009 - 10:29 pm)
All my quotes are long. :P This is from William Barclay.
"Nothing was ever achieved without discipline; and many an athlete and many a man has been ruined because he abandoned discipline and let himself grow slack. Coleridge is the supreme tragedy of indiscipline. Never did so great a mind produce so little. He left Cambridge University to join the army; but he left the army because, in spite of all his erudition, he could not rub down a horse; he returned to Oxford and left without a degree. He began a paper called The Watchman which lived for ten numbers and then died. It has been said of him: "He lost himself in visions of work to be done, that always remained to be done. Coleridge had every poetic gift but one - the gift of sustained and concentrated effort." In his head and in his mind he had all kinds of books, as he said himself, "completed save for transcription." "I am on the eve," he says, "of sending to the press two octavo volumes." But the books were never composed outside Coleridge's mind, because he would not face the discipline of sitting down to write them out. No one ever reached any eminence, and no one having reached it ever maintained it, without discipline."
There, that's my massively long quote for the day. :P
-EH
(August 27, 2009 - 11:27 am)
Let's see, mine are mostly religious. :)
"The Fruit of Silence is Prayer
The Fruit of Prayer is Faith
The Fruit of Faith is Love
The Fruit of Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace."
--Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
I've posted this one before.
"Wrong is wrong even if everybody is doing it,
and right is right even if nobody is doing it."
-- St. Augustine
I have a quote book that I love to add to, so keep posting quotes!!! :)
(August 27, 2009 - 6:04 pm)
"You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
(August 27, 2009 - 6:35 pm)
I like this one:
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain."
And I'm not really sure who said that...
(August 27, 2009 - 7:35 pm)
Inspirational, Jenni. ;) Very.
@ Megan: Ah! I love that one.
(August 28, 2009 - 3:44 pm)
Yes, it is, isn't it? The inspirational part is that if you don't like Twilight you get hugs.YAY!
(August 31, 2009 - 12:30 pm)
Wow, Megan, I love that. Cause I do dance in the rain. Literally. :D I really love that. And Kit Kat, yours rocks too. I think I wrote a poem on that concept a long time ago.... *digs through MSWord files* Yeah, a not well written poem from many moons ago, but it's there. :D Whoa, scary, two smilies already. :D Ok, so make that three smilies. :D Yes, I'll stop now. :D
-EH
(August 28, 2009 - 6:38 pm)
Really? Cool! :D I've literally danced in the rain
before, too. XD *giggles at self* I'm glad you
liked the quote. :)
(August 31, 2009 - 2:07 pm)
Ooh, yah, I like that one. :)
(August 29, 2009 - 2:16 am)
"If all else fails, sing la" -Claire Abila
(August 29, 2009 - 2:15 am)