Quotes I love
Aug 4th, 2005 by Accidental Thinker
I haven’t much time for an original entry today, so instead I thought I’d share a few of my favorite quotes. Maybe one of these days I’ll write complete posts around some of these.
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
~Theodor Seuss Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss)
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.”
~Albert Camus
“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
~Confucius
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
~Albert Einstein
“Wisdom begins in wonder.”
~Socrates
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
~George Eliot
“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
~Les Miserables (the musical)
“Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.”
~Anonymous
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
~Leo Tolstoy
“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.”
~Helen Keller
“I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
~Anne Frank
“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.”
~Hodding Carter, Jr.
Ooh…I like this one:”It is never too late to be what you might have been.”~George EliotI
hadn’t heard that one before. I was going to tell you some of my faves,
but they just fell out of my head. I may have to come back later!
Anne Frank – sure hits home, doesn’t she? What an impressive little girl. I’ll have to remember that one.
Yes, Anne Frank certainly was impressive. Now I’m going to have to read her diary again. I haven’t in many years.Every
one of these quotes reflect my personal philosophies about how I want
to live my life (achieved more successfully sometimes than others). I’m
sure there are others I left off the list. I’ve already updated to add
one that I forgot.
A few of my favorites:Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What? You too? I thought I was the only one.”-C. S. Lewis”The
nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete
surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and
depression.”-Sir John Harvey-Jones”All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”-Charles Kingsley”It’s not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowlege that they will help us.”-Epicurus”It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”-Epictetus”If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”-Abraham H. Maslow”Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”-Abraham LincolnThese all reflect something about my personality or beliefs.
I LOVE the C. S. Lewis quote!