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Rhona's Quote Idea
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cheerfulI love inspirational quotes. Reading them always helps me focus and remember where I’m going and why. This morning, whilst reading some of my favorites, I was struck with an idea!
How much fun would it be to share quotes with each other from our own personal life experiences?
I think it would be a lot of fun so I propose the following:
I will share some quotes I love from various dead people who have inspired me continuously. Then I will share some quotes from me in hopes that they will inspire someone else. Then, I would SO love to hear quotes from you! They can be about ANYTHING. I would just love to read little nuggets of wisdom from your life experiences no matter how small, funny or insignificant you may feel they are. I think yours will inspire me and others who read this post more than you could possibly imagine and OMG I think this will be so fun!
Inspirational Quotes not from Rhona:
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.— Charles A Beard
"Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do." -- William Ellery Channing
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. Now put foundations under them." -- Osa Johnson
"I learned at least this by my experiments. That if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." --Henry David Thoreu
"Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best." -- Bernard Meltzer.
Inspirational quotes from Rhona:
“Never stop to wonder what could have been. Instead, spend every day making what could be, your reality.”—Rhona Westbrook
“If you walk into the wrong sex bathroom by mistake, keep your mouth shut and pretend you belong.”—Rhona Westbrook
“Never be afraid to compliment a stranger. A few small words of affirmation could change a life.”—Rhona Westbrook
-Chinese (or Japanese) proverb, depending on who you ask.
"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine."
-Elvis Presley
"Lighten up, Francis."
-Sgt Hulka, Stripes
I also love Elvis alot.....
Have no idea who Francis is, but the tone of those three words is unmistakable and it made me laugh anyway!
-Mickey Hart
"Take the attitude that what you are thinking and feeling is valuable stuff, and then be naive enough to get it all down on paper." -Anne Lamott
"Guilty pleasure is what writing is all about."
-Julia Cameron
“Follow your weird.”
-Clive Barker
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I look at those quotes a lot when I'm feeling insecure about my writing!
Well I love all of them, especially the Clive Barker one.
Thanks girl!
:::goes to follow her weird... :::
That is one of my favorite quotes. I use it a lot in daily life, actually, and have ever since college. It helps me pick myself up.
Here's a quote from me:
"You teach people how to treat you." --Kelly Swails
I think that is so true, and it ties into the first one.
Another fave, this one from a movie:
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something." Dread Pirate Roberts, The Princess Bride
I love the others too. Thanks for sharing!
I stayed in a flophouse hotel in the Village on and off for a while back in the late 90s when I was in between apartments. The bathrooms were unisex. It was weird. Very weird. I finally found more private conditions on another floor.
"Two to one; we'll get you in the long run"
Funeral Director
And I like this quote alot LOL!
"Don't step in that!" my grandpa
"Use a Kleenex!" my mom
Karen MahoneyAnonymousI LOVE it Kaz--er I mean Anonymous.....
‘The world is a tragedy to those who think, a comedy to those who feel.’
- Anon.
‘Imagination is the eye of the soul.’
- Anon.
‘A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.’
- Herm Albright.
‘Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.’
- Confucius.
'Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.'
- JFK
'If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.'
- General George S. Patton.
'Only by living on the edge of death can one understand the indescribable beauty of life.
- Japanese proverb
'Everything you can imagine is real.'
- Pablo Picasso
'In the kingdom of hope, there is no winter.'
- Russian saying (proverb?)
'The 11th Commandment; thou shalt not get caught.'
- Anon.
*grins*
:::steals all of em:::
You know what would make me feel better though?
hearing a quote from Mastadge himself.......no pressure or anything though;-)
;::cackles wickedly:::
(Anonymous)
Quote
Re: Quote
Having been there, I understand this, but I had forgotten and am ashamed to admit I haven't felt the amount of understanding I should have for others in that situation.
thanks for sharing this with us today Anonymous!
(Anonymous)
Inspirational Quotes
"Too much open-mindedness makes for mediocrity." - I can't remember who said this, but sometimes it helps me to focus.
Re: Inspirational Quotes
(Anonymous)
Gandhi
-- Mahatma Gandhi --
Re: Gandhi
Others', ditto: http://www.erif.org/quotes/others.php
Some made me laugh, some made me nod and a few were astounding!
"Life is a lot of energy wasted on a better tomorrow, whose bliss you can't enjoy, because you are too busy to deal with the new shit piled on your desk." ~ Harry Markov
"Life is like a game of Russian Roulette. One click of the trigger and nothing happens, you are safe, intact and unhamrmed. Then you click again, the cylinder revolves and your world explodes, existence sent to oblivion." ~ Harry Markov
"Writing is not about the words, the pages and the ink spilled. It's about being the people you always wanted to be, the worlds you wanted to see and the lives you wanted to live. It is the best of plastic surgery and identity thievery in one." ~ Harry Markov
Thanks Harry:-)
"Read Fairy tales!"
--Albert Einstien
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
--Albert Einstein
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. "
--Robin Williams
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
--Mark Twain
"Love is giving someone the power to destroy you but trusting them not to."
Author: Unknown
“How does one become a butterfly?" she asked. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.” Unknown
“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”
-Einstein
"Never expect reality to bow to rationality"
-Me :)
I love all of these, especially that last one;-)
SO true! rationality and reality will NEVER mix no matter how badly we wish it would!
Also....Bread& Butter pickles are the bestest EVA!
- The Shawshank Redemption
About anything from Twain... *points at her icon*
"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes. (I have his posted on the back of my front door so I see it every single time I walk out the door.)
"You don't have to like everybody you work with, but you do have to work with them. Keep that in mind."
- My dad's advice about the workplace, which has always kept me in good straits. It's a shame your JCP co-workers never learned the same. :-)
I lof this game!
"If you're going through hell, keep going." --Winston Churchill.
And on her refrigerator, she has a magnet that says:
"Leap, and the net will appear."
And one day she said to me, "No job is all beer and skittles. That why they have to pay someone to do it."
My personal favorites from other sources are:
"In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it." -Lao Tzu
"Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." -Sydney J. Harris
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't." -Anatole France
"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Catherine Aird
"The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else." -John Updike, writer
"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." -John Andrew Holmes
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator and writer (106-43 BCE)
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." -Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." -G.K.Chesterton
"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered." -G.K. Chesterton
"The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'" -Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." -Chinese proverb
"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power
to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with
great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind." -Leonardo da
Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519)
"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it,
can still ripen a bunch of grapes as it if had nothing else in the universe
to do." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from
him." -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." -Marcus Aurelius, philosopher and writer (121-180)
"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." -Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826)
"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold
weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
-Leonardo Da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519)
Especially "everyone is writing a book" one LOL!
::steals all of em:::
thank you girl!
"It is hard to fail. But it is worse to never have tried to succeed." - Teddy Roosevelt.
"The power of imagination makes us ifinite." - John Muir
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt.
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." - Abraham Lincoln
I fear though, that I have no real nuggets of wisdom to impart. :-(
I love your quotes. :-)
Thank you Java:-)
Here's one of my own:
There's an "if" in "life" for a reason. You can be scared of it, or you can embrace it. Once you embrace it, the possibilities are endless.
--JA