USEFUL QUOTES...

[Giyana]

I am always copying bits and pieces; would love to drag some of those "pearls of wisdom" out of the village in one place...

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." --Buddha

[indigo]

A vaincre sans péril, on triomphe sans gloire.
To win without risk is a triumph without glory.
Corneille.

[EskimoBluDay]

One I just found that has a ring of truth. Nothing new in the world. Why can't it change?

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit because gratitude
is a burden and revenge is a pleasure
-- Tacitus c. a.d 55-120

[Chy]

“I certainly don't regret my experiences because without them, I couldn't imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles, and attitude is everything!”~~Sasha Azevedo

[Biker Bill]

I like all what has been said here. I don't have any that i know. BE COOL, by Biker Bill.

[WingsFreed]

“May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.”

[WingsFreed]

"Some of us might find happiness if we would quit struggling so desperately for it"

- William Feather -

[EskimoBluDay]

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably
never happened and those which do not matter.
-- W. R. Inge

The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be
taken seriously.
-- Hubert Humphrey

Worry is a misuse of imagination.
-- Dan Zadra

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
-- Martin Fraquhar Tupper

[Hopefloats]

"Let go or be dragged." For me, that was one of the most positive things I heard.
It somehow clicked and made me smile

[Giyana]

Worry is a misuse of imagination.
-- Dan Zadra

Thanks BluDay-I like that one...

I don't have a quote at the moment but need one...several deaths in the family, and I am feeling...well...depressed. and old. and lonely.

Any quotes that might help?

[WingsFreed]

(((Gianna)))if only I could hug you. I can only give you a cyber hug Sorry you're having a rough time at the moment.

Keep your face to the sun my beautiful sister, don't let the dark moments take away your ever shining light.

I found this, not sure if it's what you're needing at this time, hope it helps.
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Even the dreams that have yet to happen can make us happy simply by dreaming them. For as far as we know, their joy have already arrived in our hearts. For if we can dampen our days by
worrying about the things that may or may not happen, how can we not brighten our days also with beautiful things that are yet to come?

[WingsFreed]

"A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.” - Tecumseh

[Harley Kat]

"Its not what they call you...but what you answer to" Olde African Proverb

"I can be changed by whats happened to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it"...Maya Angelou.

[EskimoBluDay]

Giyana,

Sorry to hear about the deaths in your family. That is always tough and with more than one it's compounded. Thinking of you.

All things are difficult before they are easy.
-- Thomas Fuller

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad
judgement.
-- Jim Horning

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the
lesson afterward.
-- Vernon Law

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to
apply.
-- Josh Billings

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-- John Powell

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what
happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley

[WingsFreed]

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing"
Helen Keller

"Determination is the wake-up call to the human will."
Anthony Robbins

[EskimoBluDay]

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your
own. You may both be wrong.
-- Dandemis

A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person
is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he
disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.
-- Kenneth A. Wells

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply drop it.
-- Marquis de Vauvenargues

[WingsFreed]

I especially like this one.

"The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably, thought and act.

Orison Swett Marden

[wired]

There is a wonderful, mystical Law of nature that three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom, peace of mind are most usually attained by giving them to someone else...

Gnostic saying (Tobias Churtan)

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If I always do what I always did, then I'll always get what I always got...

(Life-stream)

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The only devils in the world are those who dwell within our own hearts and that is where every battle should be fought. Me, I’m not such a good warrior in that battle, that is why I have such tolerance for those other scoundrels.

(one of them Gandhis - the one on all them posters and stuff)

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Aaaaaaaand finally (for today)

Washing ones hands of the conflict between the powerless and the powerful means to side with the powerful, not be neutral

(Paulo Friere)

[WingsFreed]

Eskimo and Wired....thanks for those

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

Helen Keller

[WingsFreed]

You have a lot on your mind.
Peace of mind should be one of them.
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Not sure who quoted this, but it's a good one, words to live by eh.

I really like this one.

If you don't make a choice
The choice makes you.

From movie - Ghost Rider