"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." (Friday night is quote night)

[The Straight Story]

Fell free to add your own, just don't quote me :)

"Dance like no one is watching.
Sing like no one is listening.
Love like you've never been hurt
and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein


"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. "
— Mark Twain

"I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde


"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
— E.B. White

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anais Nin

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
— Woody Allen

More

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show_tag?name=life

[Bozita]

1. Things to ponder

Thanks.

[TomInTib]

2. ...

"I'll keep my faith, Lord, but I'll sleep with my light on"

TomInTib

[Book Lover]

3. A bit long, but...

"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals."

--- G. Orwell

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. Here's a long one:

“Our brave young men are dying in the swamps of Southeast Asia.

Which of them might have written a poem?

Which of them might have cured cancer? Which of them might have played a World Series, or given us the gift of laughter from the stage, or helped build a bridge or a university?

Which of them could have taught a child to read?

It is our responsibility to let these men live . . . It is indecent if they die because of the empty vanity of their country.”

Robert F. Kennedy
San Jose, CA
March 23, 1968

[Tangerine LaBamba]

4. "I'm not often right, but I'm usually right."

Me.

[malaise]

5. Lovely quote n/t

[madokie]

7. “If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" Will Rogers

“It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so” Will Rogers

“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.” Will Rogers

"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." Will Rogers

[Bozita]

8. I think I just spotted a sure-fire McCain campaign slogan!

[hisownpetard]

9. Some of my favorites -

QUOTES:

What you are speaks so loudly, I cannot hear what you say.
- Emerson

What I will never see again, I must love forever.
- Y. Amichai

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
- Coco Chanel

Spring is enemy terrain.
- Y. Amichai

Not all stones want to be smooth. Some need to be rough, and are still beautiful
- D. Digges, in conference


The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason
for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries
of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality... Never lose a holy curiosity.
--- Albert Einstein

If you take the bravest soldier, the most intrepid sailor, and the most daring
pilot and sit them at a table, what do you get? The sum of their fears.
- Winston Churchill

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be
crowded on a velvet cushion
- Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN

I haven't failed. I have successfully discovered 12,000 ideas that don't work.
- Thomas Edison

-The people have spoken, the bastards,
- Huey Long, after losing an election

Nothing improves a person's hearing like praise.
- Anon.



Don't think about writing a poem. Think about what it is you want to say.
—swb

My job is to push against what I'm given until I understand it.
— Mark Doty

A poem without secrets lies dead on the page.

Words themselves come to us dragging their roots behind them.
—S. Kunitz

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting, in spite of it.
— Mark Twain

Fail.
Fail again.
Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett

Sometimes a cigar is just
a cigar.
— S. Freud

[madeline_con]

10. Look it up....

I don't make this stuff up.

Me

[Berry Cool]

11. Some of these quotes are misattributed.

There's no way Mark Twain came up with "Dance like no one is watching, Sing like no one is listening," etc. That's a much more recent quote, and has been slapped on a million tchotchkes ever since it was invented. I guess someone figured it would sound more profound if attributed to someone like Twain.

I'm also positive that Einstein NEVER said "Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." That's a more recent quote, too. I have seen it attributed to the author Rita Mae Brown on Wiki (so take it as you will), Sudden Death, Bantam Books, New York, 1983, p. 68.

John Lennon also didn't come up on his own with "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." He swiped it from elsewhere to use in "Beautiful Boy," just as he did the "Every day in every way, it's getting better and better" line. "Every day in every way, I'm getting better and better" is from Emile Coule. He was an early proponent of what we now call "daily affirmations." I wish I knew where Lennon got "Life is what happens to you," but I don't. I do remember hearing it before that song ever came out. The way the song works, these quotes lifted from other sources are placed in the song to play similar roles. He's not intending to rip anyone off, but I don't think he ever intended that quote to be attributed as original to him.

[rockymountaindem]

12. Wow, that's a bunch of stuff I didn't need to read tonight

I feel more boring than before.

[The Straight Story]

13. Well, usually you are pretty boring. Post some nudes of yourself and liven up your life

:rofl:

[rockymountaindem]

14. Heh

I think that'd be too much excitement for one night.

[KG]

15. I have everything under control but my excesses - Me.

[KG]

16. I no longer have the energy to point out the obvious to the willfully obtuse - Me

[The Straight Story]

17. I regret that I have one liver to give for my beer

me :)

[Zywiec]

18. Despite the cost of living, its still very popular n/t