Quotes Collection

[Hayley]

Hoping we can build a thread of lovely quotes to come back to .

 

I saw this one earlier and thought it was very appropriate, being the autumn equinox today:

 

 

 

'Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.'

-George Eliot

 

 

[muggle not]

If you can help others, and fail to do so, your time on Earth has been wasted.

- Roberto Clemente

Edited September 24, 2021 by muggle not

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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

-James Dean

[lunababymoonchild]

“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” Attributed to Plato

[lunababymoonchild]

One of my favourite quotes : 

 

Albert Einstein: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

[lunababymoonchild]

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." Virginia Woolf

[lunababymoonchild]

My own “time isn't wasted if you learn something”

[Chrissy]

Have courage for the great sorrows, and patience in the small ones, and when you have accomplished your tasks, go to sleep in peace.

(Victor Hugo)

 

Let us be grateful to the people that make us happy: they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

(Proust)

 

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

(George Orwell)

 

Silently, one by one in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars. The forget-me-nots of the angels.

(HW Longfellow)

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"When you come to a fork in the road.... take it."  - Yogi Berra

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"Quotes" is a great topic. I am somewhat surprised that there hasn't been more activity on it.

[lunababymoonchild]

Another one of mine that is often quoted by me “If you are man/woman enough to dish it out you better be man/woman enough to take it”

 

another favourite of mine is “no retreat, no surrender”

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• “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” -Mark Twain

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"When I was young, I was pretty dumb. And now that I'm older, I'm pretty f***ing dumb. - Willie Nelson

[lunababymoonchild]

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it change your attitude.  Don't complain. Maya Angelou

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller