Favorite Quote (Love or Philosophical)

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Lifer
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So, I think I am going to get my niece (due in the beginning of August) and blanket, and embroider a quote on it.

I have many quotes that I like, but most don't really fit the occasion.

I need something very meaningful...

Here are a few candidates:

- It is never to late to be what you might have been.

-The best feelings are those that
Have no words to describe them...

- All you need is love.


Any that you guys really like?

And what is that one about "...one needs only look to the stars." or something like that?

Oh, I guess I should tell my favorite quote:
Behind it all
is surely an idea so simple,
so beautiful,
so compelling that when-
in a decade, a century,
or a millenium,
we grasp it,
we will all say to each other,
how could we have been so stupid for so long?
 
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element

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

When I read that quote I thought of string theorists and how multiple dimensions and universes were thought to be eccentric.

and here's some more random ones:

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...
Joan Didion (1934 - )

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.
Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Seneca (5 BC - 65)

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)

It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
John Wesley (1703 - 1791)

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
Leo Burnett

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)
 
ScoobMaster

ScoobMaster

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"There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks who have chosen to accept a certain religion, philosophy, theory, idea or notion and cling to that belief regardless of any evidence that might, for anyone else, bring it into doubt. They are the ones who encourage and support the fanatics and the frauds of any given age. No amount of evidence, no matter how strong, will bring them any enlightenment. They are the sheep who beg to be fleeced and butchered, and who will battle fiercely to preserve their right to be victimized."

-James Randi "The Mask of Nostradamus"
 
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Electric Amish

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Originally posted by: Spamela
:heart:That which doesn't kill me makes me stronger:heart:
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That which does not kill me only postpones the inevitable.

It's always darkest before it goes pitch black.
 
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duke

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If you love something, set it free
If it comes back, it was meant to be
If it doesn't, hunt it down and kill it.
 
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djheater

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I like the bolded stanza of this poem.

There is no greater miracle than this:
The quickening of flesh within the womb,
Summoning an angel to a kiss.

Ay, me! Again the gist of Genesis:
The gulf of light darts vast against the gloom!
There is no greater miracle than this.

Ay, me! Again the voice of the abyss,
Tailoring the temple to the tomb,
Summoning an angel to a kiss.

The paradox defies analysis:
Soul from sand, sanctity from spume.
There is no greater miracle than this.

Nor ought one such absurdity dismiss:
The rationing of reason to a room,
Summoning an angel to a kiss.

Life walks upon a sea of nothingness,
Eternal in the beauty of its bloom.
There is no greater miracle than this:
Summoning an angel to a kiss.
 
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LinuxIdiot

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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)


I can see these as pertaining as giving a bit of advice to the young 'un ;)

::EDIT:: The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. Ray Kroc

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. lazarus Long
 
MDE

MDE

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Originally posted by: element
Originally posted by: MDE
Wise men make proverbs but fools repeat them
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And plagiarists repeat them without giving credit to the author.
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Ever think there's the slight chance that I have no clue who said it?
 
JetBlack69

JetBlack69

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"Anyone attempting to produce random numbers by purely
arithmetic means is, of course, in a state of sin."
--John Von Neumann
 
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resinboy

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my favorite Babylon5 quote" Truth? Truth is a 3 edged sword, your version, their version, and the truth that lies somewhere between".
 
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Ynog

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Not to grammer nitpick here,

but since you have it listed its actually with a too not to

- It is never too late to be what you might have been.
 
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