Quotes #3 ~ Words From the Wise

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Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

~ Emily Dickinson
 
I like that one :nod:


Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
- Lily Tomlin
 
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? - Ernest J. Gaines
 
:nod: definitely.

"Laughter is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't permanently solve any problems, but it makes things more acceptable for a while."
 
"What an extraordinary time to be alive. We’re the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life."
~ Frances Moore Lappe
 
"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly. AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES."
- Nike Ad
 
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
 
I like it :lol:



:nod:

“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”
Erica Jong
 
Tonight, all the freaks are outside, and we lock the ****ing doors!” - Lady Gaga at her Monster Ball Tour. :love:
 
^ Thanks. :) I love inspirational books.

more from H. Jackson Browne...these sound too simple and too good to be true...but the truth is that they take effort to put into practice every day, and they are the things that really do work.
 
Both by Shakespeare

"Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say."

"To your own self be true."

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life." ~Helen Exley
 
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