Tuesday, 16 August 2011

quotes...

I love quotes... real people inspire me and im touched because it hits a chord inside... and some of them are just plain funny... i stored my collection of quotes in various places, random notebooks (which i've since lost), and more recently my phone... so now im pretty much gonna dump them in here... 


the bold ones at the top are those which are particularly hitting home right now, this moment...


"Be not afraid of moving forward, be more afraid of standing still." -Anonymous


"Delay is the deadliest form of denial." -C. Northcote Parkinson (British Historian)

"Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step." - Anonymous


"Success isn't how far you've gotten, but the distance you've travelled from where you started." -Chinese Proverb


"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop." - Confucius

"It's not our abilities that show what we truly are, it is our choices." -Prof Dumbledore, Chamber of Secrets


"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." -Prof Dumbledore, Philosopher's Stone


"My worst fear was realised, I had hit rock bottom and then rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." -JK Rowling


"There's no good way to tell a stranger they smell nice or a friend they smell terrible." - funny or die FB status


"To espouse normality after seeing horrors has always seemed to be such a courageous thing to do and climbing back to normality after trauma is much much harder... it's much harder to rebuild than to destroy." - JK Rowling


"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday." Anonymous


"There is no peace without forgiveness." -Fr Sujono's sermon, 24 may 2011


"...because they had been part of something great. And greatness, no matter how brief, stays with a man." Coach McGinty, The Replacements


"being a part of something special, makes you special." -Rachel, Glee season 1, ep 1


"The greatest expression of rebellion is joy." -Joss Whedon


"Give us joy to balance our affliction." -Psalm 89


"I always knew I would look back on my crying and laugh... but I never knew I would look back at my laughter and cry." -Anonymous


"It is easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission." -Anonymous


"Why you don't have what you want is because you don't pray for it. When you do pray and don't get it, it is because you have not prayed properly, you have prayed for something to indulge your own desires." James 4:3


'Life keeps throwing us chances to learn new things but sometimes, life throws it to our faces and it's hard to see the lesson when it hits you right between the eyes.. It isn't until we look in the mirror that we finally understand and learn and grow... Until the next lesson." -me, 03 sep 2010


"Such insufferable sorrow. I have no place for it." - Andromeda


"The person who never makes a mistake probably isn't doing anything." -Rita Emmett


"The time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time." -Joe Foo


"There is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." -Arthur Rubinstein


"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that, in the end, we become disguised to ourselves as well." -Francois dela Roche Pereaux


"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only robs today of its strength." -AJ Cronin


"Nothing will work until you do." -Maya Angelou


"..her sins, her many sins, must have been forgiven her, or she would not have shown such great love." -Luke 7:36-8:3


"...never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings." Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pary, Love)


 “There’s a certain kind of pain that can numb you. There’s a type of freedom that can tie you down. Sometimes the unexplained can define you. And sometimes the silence is the only sound. In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.” -Charlie Brown


"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." -John F. Kennedy


"A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm" -Charles M. Schwab


"As long as you are willing to let life push you around, it will.” -Napoleon Hill


"If you take care of the little things, the big things will take care of themselves" -Unknown


"The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become." -Mark Twain


"It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop“ -Confucius


"Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough." -Unknown


“In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.” -Donald Trump


"New opinions are always suspected, & usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common." -John Locke


 “There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits & imagining the impossible." -Tony Robbins


"The best way to get a better answer is to start asking a better questions." -Tony Robbins


"Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile." -Walt Disney


"It doesn't matter what a person brings, only what they leave with." -Anonymous


"Obsession is a dangerous thing to be obsessed about." -Me


"When your legs are tired, walk with your heart. But please, don't stop." -Paulo Coelho


"The greatest jeopardy in life is to risk nothing." -Anonymous

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