Put your quotes to live by here!
 

Hello everyone! This thread is to put down quotes to live by. Everyone has a quote that they use so lets hear it. Maybe we could learn something to take with us through life. Here is a good one: God never shuts a door without opening another one. Live your life a quarter mile at a time. -UDZETA :D

MY EARPISM's:

Fu#& With Me and we have a problem
God You are getting old! Yes I lived to be this old, you may not
God you are getting Gray, Nope going back to Blonde, but not Flesh!
Do Unto those as You would have done to you!
Your Parents get Smarter the Maturer YOU GET!
Sh#t runs downhill and you are on the bottom of the food chain!
I have a tire Iron, well I have a 357 Mag dirt bag!
If wishes were Chiucken Sh&# I would have a Hen House Full!
In every life Rain Must Fall, But Damn you would think there is a silver lining on the Sh@# Wall some time!
I hate Pain and if between Thee and Me, You Lose!

Well, I am going to bed now as worn out! Taxed Brain!:D

Trust is like a building. It can take a long time to make, but seconds to blow.

"I dont wanna be a star, cuz stars fall"- Bernie Mack on Oprah

People dont become things, they always were...

"Blame is cuz we are who we are. Hate is cuz you'll never get that far."- Better Than Ezra

From MTV's "Real Life- I'm A Cheerleader"
Dunbar Cheeleader: "I believe that we can be the winner(mocking a pep speech from another teams coach)"."That wouldnt motivate me at all"
MTV: What would motivate you?
Dunbar Cheerleader: WE ARE WINNERS! (yells in the camaras face in serious tone)
Brings back swim team memories.

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.

Nothing is fool proof to a sufficiently talented fool.

Lights travels faster than sound, this is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Well I've got one right now off the top of my head, so I'll post it and if I think of something else I'll edit this post, but for now...


"If there is a glimmer of hope in anything, you should support it" Krist Novoselic - Bassist of Nirvana

Of all the things that I have lost, I miss my mind the most.

I've learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in. (LOL)

If you want to wake up with a smile on your face, go to bed with a coat hanger in your mouth.

My personal fav was said by one of Oprah's assistants-

"LOVE is BELIEVING in someone until they can BELIEVE in THEMSELVES"

no one ever says 'it's only a game' when their team is winning

everytime i walk into a bar i can hear my mother's wise words "don't pick that up, you don't know where it's been"

once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right

Remember what you do have....Forget about what you don't.


"The Road Goes on Forever...and the Part Never Ends......" (REK)

I think it may have been Steven Stills who wrote, "And we never failed to fail, it was the easiest thing to do." -the Southern Cross

Then, as we used to say at a TV station I worked for, "If we were an airline, we'd kill people."

"Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs -- the Titanic was built by professionals."

I'll think of more.

"There are things about me you wouldn't understand, things you couldn't understand and things you shouldn't understand" -- PeeWee Herman

don't sweat the petty things... and don't pet the sweaty things.

My two favorite lines are from Dave Matthews Band songs:

"Its not where you are, but who are you with that really matter."
and
"What I want is what I have not got, but what i need is all around me"

The other is an often used one that i love

"Work like you don't need the money
Dance like no one is watching
Sing like no one is listening
And love like you have never been hurt"

The others are from the simpsons:
"My mommy said my nose wouldn't bleed as much if I just kept my finger out of there"
"Bart no beer, beer is only for adults and those with fake ids"
"Alcohol is the both the solution and the cause for every thing"

"Never trust anyone 100%, if you don't trust, you can't be betrayed"

"Time heals all wounds...is bullshit...it merely lets you forget, until you remember."

"You can't fix a broken heart, only mend it, because if you can heal it, and move on, and truly forget the pain... you weren't in love, only thought ya were."

"Beleiving in luck is what separates the winners from the losers. The losers wait around for something good while the winners get out there and make dreams happen."

"If you have a hunch someone is doing you wrong, go with it, your instincts are usually right."

"The only innocent thing in this world is a baby's first glance at its mother. After that, it's all downhill, as sight has a way of blinding a person."

"If you have any doubt, don't even think of saying I do, because things just don't fix themselves and neither do people."

"People think the right thing to do is be nice to each other, try and help each other out, well, the fact is, we all look out for number one cause we were born alone, and we'll die alone, no need to try to make everyone important or make every individual have worth, because not everyone is meaningful, not everyone deserves to be. In fact, a majority of people around you are oblivious to your individual existence and wouldn't think twice about taking you out if it meant they would live. We are in no way civilized, we just create laws and society to keep ourselves entertained."

"Whether you are a king or a beggar, saint or sinner, virgin or whore, man or woman...we all eat, shit, reproduce, sleep, laugh, cry and then we die, the same way and we turn to dust the same way too. No you are not special, no there are no predestined plans for you. You can be anything you want, or you can choose to be nothing. Choice is the only thing we can ever own, as we always have a choice, even if it seems we don't, THERE IS ALWAYS CHOICE."

"Don't worry, be happy":)

Some of these are mine, some are remembered from alcohol induced 4 am philosophy sessions in my college apartment, either way, plenty are useful.

"I only count the sunny hours, the brightest hours of day - I never count the gloomy hours, I let them slip away . . . "
-Long Beach Dub All-Stars

"Lovin' is what I got - I said remember that; lovin' is where it's at . . . "
-Half Pint

"Your karma is coming around - just wait 'til your feet hit the ground . . ."
-the Skunks

and my personal mantra . . .

"Booze, broads, and bullshittin' - if you got all those, what else do you really need?"
-the immortal Harry Caray

semper ubi sub ubi

Ok, here goes (although Rob already posted one of them)

"I only count the sunny hours, the brightest hours of day - I never count the gloomy hours, I let them slip away . . . "
-Long Beach Dub All-Stars

"Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic, but I've had a good life all the same." - Jimmy Buffet

"Yesterday's over my shoulder, but I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me that I know that I just can't go wrong." - Jimmy Buffet again

"If you want it, you can have it, but you have to learn to reach out there and grab it" - Weezer

"Never lose my family, never lose my friends, never lose my youth, I hope it never ends."

Those are a few of the quotes I live by.

Collin

"Incident or Accident, it all depends on if you're meant to understand" - Jimmy Buffett

"The Tree of Life is Self-Pruning" - From the Darwin Awards

Camaron que se duerme, se lleva al corriente=

The shrimp that falls asleep gets carried away by the current=

You snooze, you lose!

"If today you do the things that you need to do when you need to do them, then some day you'll be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them."

"There are only two things that are certain in life, life and death. What is done in between is totally up to you."


Blaine

"Never bring a knife to a gunfight"

"You cant whip anything that fights on its back"

I dont remember the spanish language version, so I cant be as cool as carnation, ;) but the translation goes as such, "Tell me who you run with, and I'll tell you who you are."


Sounds cooler in spanish.

People seldom remember who broke the ice, they're just happy to be standing in a puddle.

Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect.
It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections.

I'll have to add more later, but for now...

* Don't cry because it's over...Smile because it happened.

* Wearing a badge doesn't make you worthy of being a sister, being a sister makes you worthy of wearing that badge!

There's no use getting angry about the things you cannot change save it for the things you can change - Me:D

Pretty much the whole song Fruitcakes by Jimmy Buffet but here are a few excerpts:
"It's a jungle out there kiddies Have a very fruitful day"
"Your tax dollars at work"

"Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die" - DMB

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." - Albert Einstein

"The only reason I do this is to stamp out ignorance and apathy - do you know the difference between the two? Ignorance is when you don't know enough to care and apathy is when you don't care enough to know." - My old Management teacher Mike MacDonald on why he teaches.

Wheb you wake up in the morning and your feet hit the floor and you know it, it must be a good day!

Wake up and smell the roses or you will be planted with lilies on your Chest.

You dont bother me, I wont bother you!

Screw me once, my fault, screw me twice look out!

F&%# me once, I will F&$# You until your eyeballs fall out!

Add a tuff day at the office and have a Alum Meeting tonite!:cool:

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away - and you have their shoes.

[color=sea-green]Never get into a battle of wits with an unarmed person.[/color]

I use that one on a daily basis, ha ha.

From the I Ching
 

"Before a great vision van become reality, there may be difficulty. Before a person begins a great endeavor, they may encounter chaos. As a new plant breaks the ground with great difficulty...so must we sometimes push against difficulty in bringing forth our dreams." - I Ching

From the I Ching
 

"Before a great vision van become reality, there may be difficulty. Before
a person begins a great endeavor, they may encounter chaos. As a new plant breaks the ground with great difficulty...so must we sometimes push against difficulty in bringing forth our dreams." - I Ching

"Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself loses his misery." -- Matthew Arnold

"I'll think about it tomorrow after all, tomorrow is another day."
Scarlett O'Hara

"The course of true love never did run smooth."
Shakespeare

"Don't try to sing if you dont know the words"

And my Family's motto from the dark ages
"Esse quam videri" -- To be rather than to seem to be

Yes i know some Fraternity or sorority uses is
It's also the State motto of North Carolina
but i assure you my family has used it a lot longer
than NC has been around ;)

"Nothing is worth more than this day." -Goethe

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." -Thoreau

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." -Plato

"Some people meet that somebody that they can never stop loving, no matter how hard they try. I don't expect you to understand that, or even believe it, but trust me, there are some loves that don't go away. And maybe that makes them crazy, but we should all be lucky to end up with somebody who never lets go." -Ally McBeal

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win"

"What is worthwhile is difficult to achieve"

"Better to be thought an idiot, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"

Just a few good ones....

Life Is A Narrow Thread, enjoy It until The Spool Runs Out!

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world" - William Shakespeare

"If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" - Percy Shelley

"Pray to God but continue to row towards shore" - Russian Proverb

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
- Robert Frost
"To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose."
-Ecc. 3:1
"Celebrate we will for life is short but sweet for certain."
-DMB

And of course, one of my personal faves:
Let us strive for that which is honorable, beautiful and highest.
-Kappa Delta's Open Motto

Marinate on these:
 

"Be wary of the toes you step on today, for they might be connected to the ass you must kiss tommorow". -Todd, My big bro

"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza." --Dave Barry

"Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you". --Joey Adams

"Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important." --Lisa Hoffman

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."--Walter Winchell

"Service is the rent you pay for your time on the Earth."--Charles Eliot

"I'll come up and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me."--Tallulah Bankhead

"If you think the price of education is expensive, try ignorance."--Derek Bok

" Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.--Albert Einstein

"Just surrender to the cycle of things, Give yourself to the waves of the Great Change, And when it is time to go, then simply go, Without any unnecessary fuss."--T'ao Ch'ien

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."--Confucius

"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right."--Walt Disney

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."-- Robert Frost

"A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways, ya know? And they all get chummy together. Perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums."--"Hawkeye" Pierce

"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."--Mignon McLaughlin

"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."--Michelangelo

" If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce."--Voltaire

"Why is it, that when we talk to God we are said to be praying. And when God talks to us we are said to be schizophrenic?"--Lily Tomlin

"I am the essence of overconfidence! I am speculation, adventure, the spirit of pursuit, the stag howling for its winsome yet anonymous mate. I am the love call of evolution; the perfume and color of the flowers as they offer their pollen to the gentle buzz of the bees. I am sex itself, gentlemen. I am life. I am appetite!"--Anonymous

"No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back."--Old Turkish Proverb

"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."--Mark Twain

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."--Ronald Reagan

"More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other cause."--George Carlin

" I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner."--J.C. Penney

"I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. "--Abraham Lincoln

"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding."-- Mahatma Ghandi

" May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand."--Irish Proverb

Ahh, that quote got me all teary-eyed! :( I've never read such a quote that so touched me to the bone...

Quotes I try to live by
 

"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not." - Unknown

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." - Unknown

"The spirit removed, and man is garbage." - Unknown

"Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there one day." - Winnie the Pooh

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." - Christopher Robin

"I am who I am. Who matters does not mind. Who minds does not matter." - Unknown

"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong... because sometime in your life you will have been all of these." - Unknown

"As we speak, so time flees away. Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow." - Horace

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

... and my all time favorite:

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours." - Ayn Rand

I have a bunch but I think they are all pretty good....

All our young lives we search for someone to love..someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect..who might be searching for us

Betrayal only comes from those you love, it's your very best friends who have the capability to rip your heart out and not care-

~Sometimes, faith is all you have left to go on. Change, its life, you have to roll with the punches.~

~Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." ~
-Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

"There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

~Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.

It cant hurt you if it doesn't surprise you

To live by:

Let us strive for that which is honorable, beautiful, and highest.