Quotes
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"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."
-Samuel Butler
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."
-Carl Jung -
there's only so long that these can motivate you. at some point of time in your life, money would seem insignificant, compared to the other things in lifeOriginally posted by NeverSayGoodBye:..... In this modern and material world, the above mentioned were obsolete. Power, status and monetary gains are the things people strive for now.
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..... More often than not, when people are lying on their death-bed, they regret the small things they had took for granted. Not how much money they made, expensive cars they drive or how powerful they once were. It is love, appreciation or gratitude they miss the most.Originally posted by mystiv:there's only so long that these can motivate you. at some point of time in your life, money would seem insignificant, compared to the other things in life -
"i was beginning to realize an important truth about suicide: failure is as harmful as success, and is likely to provoke even more anger, because there's no grief with which to water it down."
- Nick Hornby -
Cards are war in disguise- http://www.worldpokertour.com
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The desire to die for a just cause is the sign of immaturity; the desire to live humbly for one is the sign of maturity.
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"We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking up at the stars."
-Oscar Wilde
"If you asked me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud."
-Emile Zola -
some words are better said than to be held on to
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"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed. "
-Sylvia Plath
"Each man's task is his life preserver."
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"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Funny how you only realize how deeply events have affected you years and years after they've occurred."
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"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate."
-George Burns -
"Parents need to be protected from the truth of their children's lives."
-Bett Williams -
..... God cannot be everywhere, so he created Grandmother
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"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
-Ernest Hemingway -
Lust is the irresistable desire to be irresistable desired
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Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food. ~Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort, Maximes
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit. ~Eli Khamarov, Lives of the Cognoscenti
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific."
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"It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings."
-Glenda Jackson -
I can resist everything except temptation: Oscar Wilde
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This is not primarily the place we have to be, it is the place where we are. It is not our prison, but our home. It is the road we must walk, and the walking of it is called life. Because we walk it only once, then how important is it that we should walk it with some purpose that we can call our own.
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Moeko doesn't know about her own fame, or just how many people she's reached through her simple actions. ...I'm not going to tell her. I think she would be embarrased more than anything. But, I know she didn't do what she did for personal gain or recognition. A lot of people have asked me to pass along thanks, or gifts even to Moeko, and I just can't do that. Rather than showering her with appreciation, I think the best thing to do is remember what she did, and do that for someone else. Personally, I call this the Moeko Principle. Ever since getting the owl, I've taken special care to notice the kids who haven't given any reason to be noticed at all. Just because they don't stand out, that doesn't mean that they don't want to be acknowledged as well. It doesn't have to be much - looking over the quiet girl in the back's English assignment, telling her she did a good job...asking a shy boy how his soccer club practices are going...or even just remembering a student's name. Something to show them that at least one person gives a damn that they exist. It's not a hand-crafted owl, but hopefully it's enough.
Moeko will graduate from junior high school soon. In one of her recent notes, she addressed this - "I will graduate from this school in March. But we will still be friends, right?" ...My response to her? "Don't say silly things.....of course we will." That's a promise I can easily keep -
If you give away your intelligence, all you are left is peace in retardation.
How blissful.
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"It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failings than to point out those of others."
-Jawaharlal Nehru -
A person may say that they know themselves fully. But when situations present themselves he/she discover something more about himself/herself. Knowing oneself is an ongoing process. It never stops and it only starts.
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Favorite people, favorite places, favorite memories of the past...
These are the joys of a lifetime...
There are the things that last.