Post an inspirational quote along with the author...

[RetroLounge]

"Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive"

Rilke

:hi:

RL

[mcctatas]

1. Oscar Wilde

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”

[Call Me Wesley]

2. Ludwig Wittgenstein:

"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

[mcctatas]

3. Wittgenstein is my dad's favorite philo.

from his graduation from Urbana (shirt says Wittgenstein Lives)

[oshyposhy]

5. um

does mom know you posted that?

[mcctatas]

6. You mean that ungrateful old harpy who likes you best?

:rofl:

[RetroLounge]

7. Cat Fight!

:9

RL

[mcctatas]

9. nah...

this is foreplay ;)

[RetroLounge]

Even better...

:9

RL

[oshyposhy]

13. yeah

the warm up act is next

[oshyposhy]

14. yeah

the warm up act is next

[oshyposhy]

8. yes

that's the one!

[oshyposhy]

10. omg

is she on here too?:D

[mcctatas]

11. God no!

That would truly be teh horrible :scared:

[oshyposhy]

15. :shudder:

yeah, what if she was all drunk and stuff and made weird and random posts and couldn't figure out how to delete a double post? Silly mom.

[ThomCat]

4. Hmm... I wonder if it has ever been done?

:shrug:

[nickgutierrez]

57. I submit the work of George Carlin for your review.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrXvDXVhqfU - picked pretty much at random.

[RandomThoughts]

12. Said with insightful humor, heard it again yesterday.

"Say it with fewer words."

My Dad :)

Love you dad.

[RetroLounge]

51. "Say it with fewer words."

Good advice in general, great advice for a poet...

:hi:

RL

[RFKHumphreyObama]

16. I find my new sig line very inspirational

Which is why I put it as my sig line

[RetroLounge]

53. Nice sig line...

:hi:

RL

[LaurenG]

17. Hamilton Wright Mabie

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.


http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/m#a1421

[mcctatas]

18. For some reason, this one always makes me feel better

“Half of life is fucking up the other half is dealing with it.” Henry Rollins

[RetroLounge]

63. Ah, good old Henry...

:hi:

RL

[trof]

19. "90% of life is just showing up."

Apocryphal.

[grannylib]

20. My dad: "Honey, as long as you come down on the side of love

and not judgment, you've got your theology straight."
He would have been 88 tomorrow...
Happy Birthday, Pop - I love and miss you more than I can say.

[RetroLounge]

21. Very Nice

:hi:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. Larry McMurtry...

"Nobody gets enough chances at the wild and sweet. "

From his book, "Leaving Cheyenne."

[oshyposhy]

23. this

is so much win

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. Thanks!

[oshyposhy]

26. have

you read the entire Lonesome Dove series? He writes with such "je ne sais quoi"...that catches my breath at times...

[hippywife]

34. His son has the same touch

with his songwriting.

Welcome to DU. :hi:

[Guava Jelly]

25. A few from off the top of my head

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony"
Mahatma Gandhi

"Life is too short so love the one you got cause you might get
run over or you might get shot" Bradley Nowell

[RetroLounge]

29. you might get run over?

by a bus?

:scared:

RL

[Guava Jelly]

31. You just might.

A meat pie bus :P :D

[justabob]

27. Joseph Warren

Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful, but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid resolution. On you depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important question, on which rest the happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.

Joseph Warren Boston Massacre Oration March 6, 1775


or Ben Franklin

Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you

[Ahpook]

28. Wha da ya mean..........

This tune has quite a few inspirations? :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQcNdZCNJTk&feature=related

Obama has been left with a fucking mess. Let's hope that we can all help get this fucked up country back on top:)

[BrotherBuzz]

30. I never said most of the things I said.

[TieDyedDad]

32. This One

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children...

Bobby Sands

[redqueen]

59. :)

:thumbsup:

[pokerfan]

33. Epicurus

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

[hippywife]

35. My all time favorite has to be:

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always. Mahatma Gandhi

I have a bit of a hard time believing it these days, but... :hi:

[YankeyMCC]

36. A bunch of my favoritees

Follow your passions and use your training, but be on the lookout for happy accident. William Cronon,

"To be an Ojibwe is to sense the movement of nature, to learn from the winds, the waters, and the richness of the earth. Our land was always our teacher and always will be. That is why we cherish it and seek to save it for our children and grandchildren and all generations to come."

"Be the change you wish to see in the world" Gandhi

Flying is easy, just throw yourself at the ground and miss. Douglas Adams

“No one will do for us what we fail to do for ourselves.”

– Mexika proverb

"Where your talents and the world's needs cross, there lies your vocation." Aristotle

"Sapere aude, have the courage to know: this is the motto of the Enlightenment." Immanuel Kant

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better. " Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't ever forget that we have a choice in this country. We can choose not to be divided; that we can choose not to be afraid; that we can still choose this moment to finally come together."-- BARACK OBAMA, to supporters after primaries in North Carolina, Indiana


"To acknowledge that each of us at the table will eventually be part of the meal is not just being "realistic". It is allowing the sacred to enter and accepting the sacramental aspect of our shaky temporary personal being"
Gary Snyder from "The Practice of the Wild" "The Etiquette of Freedom" essay

"Devote yourself to wisdom, self-knowledge, friends and family, and give some attention to community, money, politics, and pleasure." From "Doubt: a history" by Jennifer Michael Hecht

[mykpart]

37. Never try on swimsuits when you're wearing knee-highs.

Erma Bombeck

[rug]

38. "Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress."

Epictetus

[NJmaverick]

39. Here's one

In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations, the new needs friends.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

45. who is the author?

:shrug:

[NJmaverick]

49. It's a quote from the movie Ratatouille

[NJmaverick]

40. Here's one

In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new. The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations, the new needs friends.

[blueraven95]

41. here:

"Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can."

~ Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic


and if it's not too irreverent:

"Oh, if you're a bird, be an early bird
And catch the worm for your breakfast plate.
If you're a bird, be an early early bird-
But if you're a worm, sleep late."

~ Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends


on edit: I like the one in my sig line a lot too.


:hi:

[RetroLounge]

50. I just checked my bookshelf.

I have 6 Alice Hoffman books, but not that one...

I may have to go buy a book...

:hi:

RL

[blueraven95]

52. that one is far and away my favorite of her's.

It's also on of my all time favorites.

but don't watch the movie. Definitely one of the worst movie adaptations I've ever seen.

:hi:

[Heidi]

42. "Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."

From "Anthem," by Leonard Cohen

[Tuesday Afternoon]

43. "... I shall meet with the busybody,

the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of
their ignorance of what is good and evil." Marcus Aurelius

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

44. Here's one I like

"Believe life is worth living and your belief will create the fact"
William James

[mykpart]

46. Put on your big girl panties and deal with it.

Don't know the author, but I like the saying.

[whistler162]

61. Probably Ed Wood!

[mykpart]

62. Or J. Edgar Hoover!

[camera obscura]

47. Clarence Darrow:

"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails."

and

"I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood."

[camera obscura]

48. Dupe

Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down. - Rick Astley

[ElboRuum]

54. Elbo Ruum

Life is like a turnip rotting in the sun on a hot summer's day. All you need is a Vegematic, three duck calls, a roll of gauze and you've got a party.

[RetroLounge]

55. hee

:applause:

RL

[Inchworm]

56. Life is a journey, not a destination.

I'd like to think this quote did not come from Aerosmith. I have no idea where the original concept came from though.

Aerosmith - Amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX4br4w9g5E

:hi:

[WinkyDink]

58. "It is better to be good,....than not." Freddy's Gram-mam, "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels". :)

[redqueen]

60. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela