Finding Solace in Favourite Quotes: Escaping Despair with Words of Wisdom

[Borek]

I don't feel cheerful enough.

 

[drizzle]

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[Ivan Seeking]

...Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?

- Robert Browning

 

[imiyakawa]

Only dogs bark at what they do not understand

 

[fuzzyfelt]

Oppenheimer's quote after the first atomic bomb test was a pretty good one:

"I am become death, destroyer of worlds."

"Dr Robert Oppenheimer's optimism fell
At the first hurdle"

 

[Redbelly98]

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

-- Jebediah Springfield

 

[Ivan Seeking]

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

What??

-- Jebediah Springfield

Who?

<Googles while mumbling wtf...> Oh!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Eyjafjallajökull; it sounds like something you would hear while playing a Beatles record backwards.

- Chad Myers, CNN

 

[MotoH]

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Theodore Roosevelt.

 

[quickme]

to do is to be - socrates
to be is to do - descartes
do be do be do - sinatra

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Drill, baby, drill!

- Sarah Palin

 

[phyzmatix]

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

~Terry Pratchett

 

[collinsmark]

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

- Mark Twain

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Sunday, on This Week [of all shows! Not a good sign, course they've had Liz Cheney on before], Bill Maher was lambasting Obama for his prior support of offshore oil drilling. Hopefully he will flip-flop on this one, said Mahers,

that's flip-flopping that I can believe in!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

We have two seasons: Rainy, and road construction.

- local news, KGW TV, Portland, Oregon

 

[rootX]

http://books.google.com/books?id=C4...iness and misery"&pg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false

I was reading above book today. I was surprised how generic and modern they were..
Some of my favorite ones:

Wealth can be a source of both happiness and misery. To accumulate wealth is fine so long as you know how to use it properly

Each of us has the right to our own opinion and views. But unless you want to be totally isolated, adjust your perspective from time to time so that you are in sync with the society around you. If you must have your own way all the time you will never be able to live in harmony with others

Assess a religion on the basis of its teachings. The deeds of its followers are a different matter; whether good or bad, they belong to individuals and not to the teachings. Don't mix the two

 

[OmCheeto]

http://books.google.com/books?id=C4...iness and misery"&pg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false

I was reading above book today. I was surprised how generic and modern they were..

?

The author is 24. Did you expect something else?

I liked the end of his intro. It was.

Even if you find nothing useful in this book, please do not be angry. You can always throw it away!

Wisdom knows no age.

 

[rootX]

?

The author is 24. Did you expect something else?

[/PLAIN]

Unless I am mistaken, he represents Buddhism in its present form. If that is true, this religion has evolved remarkably to meet with the needs of the current people. You would see similar tone in some material originally by Dalia Lama/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thich_Nhat_Hanh" . They comfortably accept that you are not going to become part of their religion and neither try to be persuasive.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

People tell me that Facebook is a great place to network with old friends. In order for me [age 88] to network with old friends, I'd need a Ouija board

- Betty White, SNL

 

[valenluis]

I taste salty

Same here, LOL

 

[Char. Limit]

This thread will reach 100,000 views very soon.

-Character Limit

 

[Frame Dragger]

Not sure if I've posted these before.

"Some men aren't looking for anything logical. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn." - Alfred, Bruce Wayne's Butler

"The thing about Hash Cakes is this: Start off with one, wait about an hour see how you feel. Don't eat fifteen in one go, cause you will see the devil, and he'll try to rip your heart out through your kneecaps" (Naboo The Shaman aka The Croydon Mystic aka Michel Fielding)

“You’re in the desert, you see a tortoise lying on its back, struggling, and you’re not helping — why is that?”

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

"Summa pia gratia nostra conservando corpora et custodita, de gente fera Normannica nos libera, quae nostra vastat, Deus, regna."(St. Vaast or St. Medard)

"What's the difference between God and a surgeon? Answer: God knows that he's not a surgeon."

 

[czelaya]

From a movie I used to dislike but it's becoming one of my favorites:

"The ebb and flow of the Atlantic tides, the drift of the continents, the very position of the sun along its ecliptic. THESE are just a FEW of the things I control in my world!"

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."

 

[Anticitizen]

'The only substitute for manners is fast reflexes.'

 

[Lancelot59]

'The only substitute for manners is fast reflexes.'

All too true.

 

[Borek]

In today's world five times more time and money is being invested in drugs for male virility and silicone implants for women, than in the cure of Alzheimer's disease ..
In a few years to come we’ll have grammas with large breasts and grandpas with hard ****s, but they won’t remember what it’s for.

Drauzio Varella, Brazilian oncologist

 

[EnumaElish]

"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." -- Sherlock Holmes

 

[DaveC426913]

“You’re in the desert, you see a tortoise lying on its back, struggling, and you’re not helping — why is that?”

From a film with some of the most memorable quotes in moviedom (I've seen things you've never dreamed!), why do you see this one as quoteworthy ?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The Irish have conquered the world through peaceful penetration

- my Irish friend

 

[Lancelot59]

I have a good one:

In a butter fight, there are no winners.