My Favorite Quotes

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Xun Zi

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

 

[Holy Devil]

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

~ Jean Jacques Rousseau

 

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Gretchen Kemp

There's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me.

 

[Holy Devil]

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

~ Christiane Northrup

 

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Buddha

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

 

[Holy Devil]

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

~ Malcolm Forbes

 

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

 

[Holy Devil]

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

~ Scottish Proverb

 

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Swami Rama of the Himalayas

Love all and exclude none – that is the way to enlightenment.

 

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Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, in 1962

We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.

 

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Bahá'í Scriptures

Be lions roaring through the forests of knowledge.

 

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Rumi's famous quotation.

 

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Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are the touchstone of our character.

 

[Holy Devil]

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

~ Jane Austen

 

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to buy a watch.

~ Jane Austen

FYP ... lol

Be Silly. Be honest. Be kind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson​

 

[Tx Tall Tales]

Coito Ergo Sum

 

[Holy Devil]

FYP ... lol

Be Silly. Be honest. Be kind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson​

huh?

You want me to buy you a watch?

 

[Holy Devil]

Death never takes a wise man by surprise; he is always ready to go.

~ Jean de la Fontaine

 

[butters]

Suck it and see

Anon

 

[Holy Devil]

A day is lost if one has not laughed.


~ French proverb

 

[Bad_Karma]

Si vis pacem, para bellum is a Latin adage translated as, "If you wish for peace, prepare for war"

 

[butters]

"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

Oscar Wilde