"Rules are for the guidance of the wise, and the blind obedience of the lame."
''With one hand the past moves us forward, with the other it holds us back.''- from 'Frasier'
Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
''But only in their dreams can men truly be free. Twas always thus and always thus will be.''- Dead Poets Society
"They go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent. The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place, we are entering a period of consequences." Winston Churchill
Less quote, more poem-
Red roses are so cliché—and a yellow rose did not say enough
A white rose speaks of purity—perhaps I should have reached for the blue
Though mysterious, that colored rose just did not seem to suit you.
I could have reached for the pink, but I held back
Though your presense gives me happiness—the pink just seemed to lack.
I needed something more—something that spoke of us
That said “forever is our friendship” and you’re the one I’ll forever trust.
And that is when it dawned on me—the colored rose I’ll give
The color of all eternity. The one that forever lives.
You might think this is crazy—like logic never once touched my mind
Perhaps you’re right, but this is the only way to state our friendship is eternal
And that even in the darkest light—you’ll always shine.
So I present to you a black rose—yes, go ahead and gasp in fright
But let me explain this to you and perhaps you’ll see my logic may be right.
A black rose is symbolized as death—thanks to Hollywood these days
But isn’t death the only thing that is eternal? Forever you live in memories
And this is my way of saying—that even in the after life
You’ll always be a best friend to me.
Nothing in life nor in death could ever change that.
-from Deviantart, DoorFromHeaven was the poet.
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.''
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything that 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 everything, you risk even more. -- Erica Jong
"If you want to succeed in life, remember this phrase:
The past does not equal the future. Just because you failed yesterday; or all day today; or a moment ago; or for the last six months; or the last fifty years of life, doesnt mean anything. All that matters is: what are you going to do, right now?" - anthony robbins.
''It's not what you're looking at that matters, it's what you see.'' –Thoreau
Blessed is the mind too small to doubt.
"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction." Salvadore Dali
''Power is not in knowing, it is in not knowing, ignorance is bliss because what you do not try you can not miss.'' – Purplehaze
"The darkness that surrounds us cannot hurt us. It is the darkness in your own heart you should fear." -Silvetris
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster...when you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes back."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle." -Robery Alden
"Those who fear the darkness have no idea what the light can do" -Katasai_Rakshasa
"I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be. -Albert Hofmann"
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter won't mind".
"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
Some things have to be believed to be seen. - Ralph Hodgson
‘’Don’t cry because its over, smile because it happened’’
As above, so below.
Seriously though, I put time into reading quotes and saving websites in my bookmarks and once I have used a site up a bit, I try and find another and learn more quotes... I think this thread is very helpful, at least to me. I mean you could spend quite a long time reading this whole thread and it's filled with tons of great quotes.