Your favorite quotes?

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" Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more." -Brother David Steindl-Rast

"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness." -Carl Jung

"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace." Dalai Lama
 
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
-- Stephen Roberts

^--- A good one.

Here are my favourite quotes. See if you can guess where the second ones from.

"You only know what you are told." - Unknown / Me, I can't remember how I found this one.

"I am a shadow, one no light will shine upon. If you follow me, you'll never see the day."
 
"Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."
-Mark Twain

I read that one in Wayne Dyer's book "Your Erroneous Zones" and I thought it was a good one.
 
haha yeah, its just nowadays seagal is gaining weight, looking redic and just plain hilarious.
 
Heres one that I think is pretty true...

"How can I go forward when I don’t know which way I’m facing?" - John Lennon
 
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him." - Mark Twain

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain

"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place." - Mark Twain
 
the advantage of a bad memory is one can experience the same thing for the furst time several times
 
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."
- Mae West

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln

"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."
- Al Capone

-dp
 
Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
 
"Every junkie's like a setting sun" Neil Young

"The big problem is that people don't believe a revolution is possible, and it is not possible precisely because they do not believe it is possible. " Theodore Kaczynski
 
"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things."
- Epictetus

"Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday."
- Woody Allen (by the way I'm not a disbeliever of God, I'm just agnostic for the time being)

"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure."
- Ross MacDonald

-dp
 
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