Your favorite quotes?

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^^Yeah when I read that one it made me think a lot about certain aspects in life. Like all the negative energies coming at you, or even all the energies all together coming at you; how you deal with them and make life comfortable for yourself...

-dp
 
Agreed DP, it is an awesome thread. I have read through it all and have found some great quotes that have made me think a lot, which is very enlightening. Keep up with those 3 quotes per post and I will try and stick to my 1.. heheh ;)

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby
 
"A woman's body is not cheap. Don't settle for more than you're worth and don't forget who you are for any amount of money."

I made that up but it's what I tell myself/live by at work and written across my money-made-recording notebook.
 
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness. - Blaise Pascal
 
Litm, I think you are missing the point in this thread. Quotes from others or notable sayings that might be unattributed. This thread is not a pulpit, just something you found meaningful- spoken well by someone else before you.
 
“Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.” - Charles Bukowski

Kind of makes me think about our priorities and desires and how they compare to our needs and necessities.. In a humorous way of course. ;)
 
Didn't make it through all twenty pages, so I apologize if any of these have been posted already.

First, my absolute favorite:
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
-jung

Absolutely beautiful.

Now, a few from Preacher by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon:

"But I hate a lie, Cass. My own most of all. They keep us crawlin' in the dust when we could an' should be climbin' for the stars." -Rev. Jesse Custer

"Why can a man not turn to doing good, without the lord getting all mixed up in it?"

"An' you do the right thing. You GOTTA be one of the good guys, son: 'cause there's way too many of the bad." -John Custer to his son, Jesse

Ahh, preacher. So good. :)
 
kinda long winded but

Listen.
if i didn't have so much of this life all wrong, would have gotten it right by now, i talk a whole bunch but i really only know a few things, so i'm not saying to follow along verbatim, i'll just tell you the things i tell myself, the things I KNOW and you can see what sticks, i know our shoes was stitched from songs about... HIGHWAYS! the best songs are the ones about Georgia, even though i never been there, its the only place i still believe in Jesus, i know that no matter what it is you believe in, you've got to spare yourself the futility of making fun of God, because that guy haven't even talked. EVER! i know troubleshooting yourself in the foot and acting as your own universe is a tricky dichotomy for you to deal with, but yes. You are the center of the universe, if you weren't you wouldn't be here. so as the middle of space and everything floating in it, it is your job, to know that the emptiness is just emptiness, the stars are stars, and the flying rocks HURT! so please, stop inviting walls into WIDE OPEN SPACES. i know everything is out there, that's why they call it everything. i know there are times when you go to lay your head to rest and have a moment of brilliance that will grow into a perfect order of words. but you will fall asleep instead of painting it down on paper, and when you wake up you will have forgotten the idea completely and miss it like a front tooth, but at least you know how to recognize moments of brilliance, because even at your worst, you are F-in' incredible, it comes honest. so return to yourself, even if you are already there, because no matter where you go, or how hard you try, or what you do, the only person you're ever gonna get to be, and i know it-- thank god-- is YOU!

buddy wakefield
 
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
 
Litm, I think you are missing the point in this thread. Quotes from others or notable sayings that might be unattributed. This thread is not a pulpit, just something you found meaningful- spoken well by someone else before you.

Ahh, OK, I was missing the point then! Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

This one then should fit more acurately::)

"I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him.
I ended up by asking Him to do His work through me."
(Hudson Taylor)
 
Nobody better test me, cuz I don't wanna get messy
Especially when I step inside this bitch, dick freshly
New Lugz, give the crew hugs, guzzle two mugs
Before I do drugs that make me throw up like flu bugs
True thugs, rugged unshaven messy scrubs
Whippin' 40-bottles like the fuckin' Pepsi clubs
Down a fifth, crack open a six
I'm on my seventh 8-ball, now I gotta take a piss

M. Mathers
 
“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
-Tyler Durden

“The things you own end up owning you.”
-Tyler Durden

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix

"If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people." - Tim Leary.

"Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world's greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding"
— Saul Williams
 
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix

That's a good quote, I'm surprised I haven't come across it before now. Thanks for sharing.

"Don’t wait to start the project, or task because when the time comes to attempt it excuses are brought upon and nothing will get finished, procrastination feels good at the moment but will always bring disappointment….."

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
-Morrie Schwartz

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option”

I particularly like that last one.

-dp
 
That's a good quote, I'm surprised I haven't come across it before now. Thanks for sharing.

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option”

I particularly like that last one.

-dp

no problem man... and that last one you posted i've had up on my wall for about a month now... :D

i wish i knew who the author was... could never find out tho
 
“Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.”
-Seth Godin

“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.”
-Vernon Howard

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
-Confucius

“Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
-Booker T. Washington

“You can determine how confident people are by listening to what they don't say about themselves.”
-Brian G. Jett

-dp
 
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

thats an awesome quote
 
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