I feel that I understand things so well I MADE UP MY OWN QUOTE.

Post quotes that give you a (legitimate or not) perspective on life.

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
-Maya Angelou

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
-Paulo Coelho

What Fitzgerald is talking about is known as, in philosophy and theology, as antinomy: two or more mutually exclusive facts that are both true. The classic example is the Epicurean dilemma.



Like Spook, i also have my own quote!

"Marriage is more about being the right person than finding the right person." Charlie Shedd

Half the verses in Proverbs should also go here.

"Happiness is the ultimate aim and purpose of human existence." Aristotle

"People are petty and self centered, but they will also surprise you with their generosity." Me again!

What Fitzgerald is talking about is known as, in philosophy and theology, as antinomy: two or more mutually exclusive facts that are both true. The classic example is the Epicurean dilemma.



Like Spook, i also have my own quote!

"Marriage is more about being the right person than finding the right person." Charlie Shedd

Half the verses in Proverbs should also go here.

"Happiness is the ultimate aim and purpose of human existence." Aristotle

"People are petty and self centered, but they will also surprise you with their generosity." Me again!

I'm so tired that I made it to the last line of your second post before I recognized the fact that you double-posted.

Haha, my evil plan to indoctrinate you all by repetitions is succeeding! Actually, i have no idea how it double posted. I thought the board had safeguards against that. How do delete the extra post?

"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right." -Winston Churchill

I love the F Scott Fitzgerald quote Whelly posted.

I used to have a whole file of quotes I really liked, but I'm not sure if it's on my computer anymore (and it's certainly not on my work computer)

This is why my 20+ pages of interesting quotes is handwritten.

"Life's a ***** and then you marry one." - Somebody smart

In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan

To paraphrase slightly: "A man needs god like a fish needs a bicycle."

'In a civilised community, although it may be composed of self-reliant individuals, there will be some persons who will be unable at some period of their lives to look after themselves, and the question of what is to happen to them may be solved in three ways – they may be neglected, they may be cared for by the organised community as of right, or they may be left to the goodwill of individuals in the community. The first way is intolerable, and as for the third: Charity is only possible without loss of dignity between equals. A right established by law, such as that to an old age pension, is less galling than an allowance made by a rich man to a poor one, dependent on his view of the recipient’s character, and terminable at his caprice' - Clement Attlee


The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. - Aldo Leopold

"If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it’s that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, expands to new territory, and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously."

"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do." --Voltaire

"It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind." ~ T. S. Eliot

"The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"[Words] must flow out from the heart.
And, when the soul is touched with passion’s flame,
We look around and ask - Who burns the same?" ~ Goethe from Faust

"Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus" ~ ""We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes" ~ Father Gabriel Richard (Detroit's official city motto actually)

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery" ~ Dante Alighieri

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable." ~ James Baldwin

"...You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process."
http://xkcd.com/896/

"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what YOU can do for your country."
-JFK

"There are about a dozen people in this country who understand Rooker-Feldman, and none of them are on the Supreme Court."
- one of my professors

A short proverb by Little Richard

“Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man that you can paint the air.”
-Vernon Howard

"The world keeps spinning, and so does my room after chugging a 26er" - A responsible adult

I, V, vi, iii, IV, I, IV, V - Many extremely catchy songs

I, V, vi, IV - Many more, catchier songs

iii, I, iii, I-iii-I-iii-I... - Wakko Warner

Uh, what?

"If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth."

-Anthony de Mello

Chord progressions.

"Life is hilariously tragic"

"You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into."

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease"

Unknown.

They're chord progressions.

Edit: Damnit Zul!

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

~ Oscar Wilde