Favourite Quotes...

I know there's a space on our profiles to put our favourite quotes. But they are hidden away until someone visits. So I thought I'd start a thread where we can share some of our favourites.

A few of mine...

"What does not kill me, makes me stronger" - Friedrich Nietzsche

"A hard man is good to find" - Mae West

"Never eat more than you can lift" - Miss Piggy

"Carpe Diem"

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
- Gandhi

"when you have faults, don't fear to abandon them"
- Confucius

"Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute. It may last for an hour. It may last for a day, or it may even last for a year. But, eventually, it will subside and something else will take it's place. If you quit, it will last forever." Eric Thomas

"Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, and yet everything happens only a certain number of times, a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon so deeply a part of your being you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise, perhaps 20, yet....it all seems limitless" Sheltering Sky

“Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”

" I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip. "

"Apparently life is constructed in such a way that no one can fill it alone.For flowers is not enough to have pistils and stamens and an insect or the breeze must enter the pistil in the stamen.As life is like .It contains its own emptiness that only another one can fill.Apparently the world is the sum of those others.And however we don't know, nor no one tell us that we complement one each other.We live in a scattered way,ignoring one each other .Sometimes we allow ourselves to find unpleasant the presence of the other one.Why is it that the world is constructed so messy?"

it is better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.-- don't know

"nullum prandium gratuitum"(there is no free lunch)-- also don't know

a goal is a dream with a deadline--- somebody. lol

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.-- Socrates

We were born to be hunters and we live in a society of shopping.

" My good opinion once lost, is lost forever." - Mr Darcy (Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen)

Just writing down some of my favourites I guess

"Love is like a Rhino: short-sighted and hasty. If it cannot find a way, it will make a way"

"You are not a prey until a predator knows of your existence."

"When I was young I heard...'Just wait until you get 50, then you'll see'. Now I'm 50, and I haven't seen anything at all...."

"It's not other peoples opinions that makes a human happy."

"Each person bears a secret magic in his face; there will always be someone in love with you."

"Others fear the deep-sea serpent. I praise the Gods it has no legs".

"Dead flowers don't lie".

"A woman is a lady that makes a man act like a gentleman".

"Everyone loves, but most of them don't notice the extraordinaere about it."

"Colors are a human nessicity in the same way as water and fire. Through its whole existence and all history periods have the human being connected colors with its happniess, actions and pleasures".

"Hey, I'll be back in 5 mins...but if I'm not, just read this message again".

"Procrastination is alot like masturbation. It feels good in the beginning but in the end, you realized you just fucked yourself"

"Don't make long speeches, people's lives are too short"

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand" - Albert Einstein

"That's not a battle, that's assisted suicide "

"Join the army. It's just like X-Box,- only you DIE! "

"if you're going to slit your wrist, remember; its 'down the street', not 'across the block'"

"Don't drink water - fish fuck in it!"

"What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? ... And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you - where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's, and if you cut them down -- and you're just the man to do it -- do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!" - A Man for All Seasons - Sir Thomas More

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Anna Karenina

"My friend, what are you?
Are you a celestial being or a god?
No, said the Buddha
Well, then, are you some kind of magician or wizard?
Again the Buddha answered - No
Are you a man? No
Well, my friend, then what are you?
The Buddha replied,
I am awake"

These are three things in life that shouldn't be broken...
hearts, promises & friendships. ♥