Favourite quotes

[lph]

Or just a quote you like for a certain situation or day.

This was on our intranet this morning. I hadn't seen it before, but it was particularly apt on a boring grey Monday with autumn rain coming down in buckets:

“Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night”

- Hal Borland

[Reesha]

When I let go of what I am, I can become what I might be. - Lao Tzu

*read: When I let go of thinking I'm unathletic, I can totally learn to kick some serious arse in a crit race!

[marni]

"I'm in here for insanity, not stupidity."

marni

[TsPoet]

"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
— A.A. Milne

[salsabike]

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
--Confucius

[Dogmama]

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power"

Lincoln

[Fredwina]

"If I had another $1000, I could solve all the world's problems" - David Rockfeller

[OakLeaf]

"Suffering is like a pile of rocks. You can choose to carry the load, throw them at someone, just let it lay there, or you can build an altar."

(Chad Arnold, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40094048/ns/health-health_care)

[Pax]

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
~Buddha

[Veronica]

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
~Buddha

I gotta remember this one. I get/am SO angry about injustice in my workplace.

That Buddha was a really smart guy. :p

Veronica

[Pax]

I gotta remember this one. I get/am SO angry about injustice in my workplace.

That Buddha was a really smart guy. :p

Veronica

That quote has helped me a lot, even righteous anger and indignation hurt us, it's hard to let go of at times.

[Trek420]

Ohhmmmmmm. ::sigh::: but it would still feel so good to just up and punch through a wall right now :o

[limewave]

I read this on the internet recently, it may have been here or Facebook, who knows . . .

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't--you're right."--Henry Ford (a fellow Michigander!)

DD has been driving me up a tree lately with the negative self-talk: "i can't do this, I can't do that . . . I'm a baby! I'm too little! I'm too weird!" Henry Ford's quote really struck me. I sat down with DD and had a little chat about negative and positive self-talk. And then I had her memorize this quote. And then I had her repeat some positive self-talk . . . hoping, hoping, hoping some of this sticks with her.

[Veronica]

I think it will stick with her, but you may need to repeat it every day for several years! :rolleyes:


Veronica

[Fredwina]

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent - Elanor Roosevelt
I used to have a poster with this - had to leave it in CA

[Dogmama]

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
~Buddha

Same thing but a little updated -

Holding onto anger is like peeing down your leg. You're the only one who feels it.

[smittykitty]

Sure wish my co-worker would get over the anger. Not much fun being on the other end of the stick! And yes, I think her socks are getting wet quite frequently too!:eek:

[smittykitty]

If it is to be, it's up to me. A much happier co-worker heard it somewhere.

[Dogmama]

Sure wish my co-worker would get over the anger. Not much fun being on the other end of the stick! And yes, I think her socks are getting wet quite frequently too!:eek:

When I end up feeling like I'm the brunt of somebody's bad vibes, I try to remember that it's about her/him - not about me. I just happen to be a handy target.

[Trek420]

Related but slight hijack. We have some great footers and quotes right here on TE. Which are your favorites?

[Sardine]

Related but slight hijack. We have some great footers and quotes right here on TE. Which are your favorites?

'I'm faster in kilometers!' by Caddy

Just seen this and I'm going to borrow it for a while. There are others that I can't find right now.

[malkin]

We'll just try it and if it doesn't work, we'll try something else.

I've heard this attributed to Harry Truman.

[schwartzdeborah]

mine i've heard from the series Criminal Minds.

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” - Kahlil Gibran

[jcsites]

"Just a reminder. I belong to no one, I am owned by no one,
I answer to no one. If I give you my time,
it's a privilege and not an obligation." :D

[Melalvai]

This is my sig on another forum:
If a man is called to be a street-sweeper, he should sweep streets...so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street-sweeper who did his job well." -Martin Luther King Jr

[lph]

This is my sig on another forum:
If a man is called to be a street-sweeper, he should sweep streets...so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street-sweeper who did his job well." -Martin Luther King Jr

oh, that's nice!

[Reesha]

I snatched this from a friend's facebook wall today:

‎"In civilization we try to combat winter. We try to modify it so that we can continue to live the same sort of life that we live in summer. We plow the sidewalk so we can wear short shoes, and the roads so we can use cars. We heat every enclosed space and then, inadequately clad, dash quickly from one little pocket of hot air through a bitter no man’s land of cold to another. We fool around with sun lamps, trying to convince our skins that it is really August, and we eat travel-worn spinach in an attempt to sell the same idea to our stomachs. Naturally, it doesn’t work very well. You can neither remodel nor ignore such a big thing as winter."

Louise Dickinson Rich, We Took to the Woods, 1942

:D :D :D

so true!

[zoom-zoom]

DD has been driving me up a tree lately with the negative self-talk: "i can't do this, I can't do that . . . I'm a baby! I'm too little! I'm too weird!"

Please tell her that weird is good, so "too weird" has to be even better! :)

[Melalvai]

“The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual” I like this quote very much and it’s not only funny but also true about our life.
I like that quote, what is the source?

[OakLeaf]

Google says Buckminster Fuller, but I can't find any actual citations. I don't immediately see any debunking either though, which you do with a lot of common attributions. :p

[Elphaba]

Life is like an old time rail journey - delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders and jolts - interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to be thankful for having had the ride.
-Jenkins Lloyd Jones

[TsPoet]

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
--Confucius

This Confucius quote has become my favorite.

My SO says : "I think I might have attention deficit dis... Oh shiny!" We all talk about ADOS now.

[Susan Otcenas]

We do not rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training. - Archilochus

I fall a lot! :D

[jelee1311]

One of my faves is "Think of the things you would attempt of you knew you could not fail"I have this on a magnet on the fridge

[Dogmama]

My fridge magnet says,

Life Isn't About Finding Yourself
Life is about CREATING YOURSELF

[shootingstar]

I like the aphorism in your signature too, Dogmama.:D

Speaking of which...I'm getting mild hot flashes nearly every early morning for just a few min. --usually after I wake up but still lying in bed. I never get them when I'm out of bed..or maybe I don't notice them (since they are mild).

[missjean]

"If you want something done right, get a couple of old broads to do it."
Bette Davis

[Veronica]

Most of the shadows in this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[solobiker]

Choose your rut carefully.

[Angelique84]

"I’m like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn’t know what to do if I caught one, you know, I’d just do…things" (Joker)

[DebSP]

"You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind."

[Bike Writer]

Oh there are so many good ones out there, but today I'll go with the following;

"Do or do not, there is no try" - Yoda

[zoom-zoom]

Oh there are so many good ones out there, but today I'll go with the following;

"Do or do not, there is no try" - Yoda

I have a sticker on my car that says "Du or du not...there is no tri."

'Cause I don't care for swimming competitively, but I do run-bike-run races. :D