go ahead and quote me!
My quote page is back! I had such a hard time before because I wanted to include every quote I had ever heard. This time around I am only going to include quotes that have affected me and I have relayed to others. I don't know how well I will keep this page up, but quotes have influenced me so I figured I should try and include them.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
--Spanish Proverb

What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.
--Chinese Proverb

It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying. --Tim Robbins (from the film, "The Shawshank Redemption")

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? --Henry James
In no particular order or genre~~~

The more you suffer, the more it shows you really care. --Offspring

I think you are blind to the fact that the hand you hold is the hand that holds you down. --Everclear

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. --Moulin Rouge


How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. --Annie Dillard

Some people pursue happiness--others create it. --anon.


Every day we have, is one more than we deserve. --Up Close and Personal

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. --Sophocles


Truly happy memories always live on, shining.  Over time, one by one, they come back to life. --Banana Yoshimoto

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. --Lynn Johnston


There is only one thing better than making a new friend, and that is keeping an old one. --Elmer G. Leterman

Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come. Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far and grace will lead me home. --John Newton

Just as I am, though tossed about, with many a conflict, many a doubt. Fightings and fears within, without--O Lamb of God, I come. --Charlotte Elliott

The only way to keep a good reputation is to continuously earn it. --Brian Koslow

Everyone we love is dying. Still, to cease living is unacceptable. --Banana Yoshimoto

Pretty girls always hate other pretty girls. --Christopher Pike


God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. --Anon.

God has entrusted me with myself. --Epictetus

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. --Chinese proverb

I do not regret the things I have done, but those I did not do. --Empire Records

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. --Tom Robbins

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. --Leo Aikman

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. --Roy Disney

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. --James Dean

I act like shit don't phase me. Inside it drives me crazy. My insecurities could eat me alive. --Eminem

To lose is to Learn

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.  --Grace Pulpit

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

Do not judge or you too will be judged. For in the same way dyou judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.  Matthew 7:1-2

Measure your life in love. --Rent

It hurts to have your eyes opened.

We're all better than our worst acts. --Helen Prejean

He climbed on the high gallows, bold in the sight of many, when he would free mankind. I trembled when the Warrior embraced me, yet I dared not bow to earth, fall to the ground's surface; but I must stand fast. I was raised up, a cross; I lifted up the Mighty King, Lord of the Heavens: I dared not bend.-- "The Dream of the Rood"

The time to hesitate is through. --Jim Morrison

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. --Drew 'Bundini' Brown

It isn't hard to be good from time to time...what's tough is being good every day. --Willie Mays

But I do know one thing: that's where you are, it's where I belong.  It's where I wanna be. --Dave Matthews Band

New day, new destiny. --Bulgarian proverb

Work like you don't need the money.  Love like you've never been hurt.  Dance like nobody's watching. --Satchel Paige

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. --John 15:13


Things you own end up owning you. --Tyler Durden

The best things aren't things. --Art Buchwald

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.

I can not save you. I can't even save myself. --Stabbing Westward

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. --Chinese Proverb

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. --George Santayana

No one said it would be easy. But no one said it'd be this hard. No one said it would be easy. No one thought we'd come this far. --Sheryl Crow

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you. --Annie Dillard

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. --Galatians 5:22-23

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.-- J.R.R. Tolkien

A little learning is a dangerous thing.-- Alexander Pope

Dullness is ever apt to magnify.--Alexander Pope

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. --Dr.Seuss

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. --William Shakespeare


Anyone sho says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. --anon.

Our history is not our destiny. --Alan Cohen

Be like a duck, calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. --Michael Caine

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.
--Japanese Proverb

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. --Anon.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them. --James Fallows

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. --Jacqueline Schiff

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. --Chinese Proverb

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. --Japanese Proverb

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.  --Anon.

Envy sees the sea but not the rocks.  --Russian Proverb

Advice to children crossing the street: damn the lights. Watch the cars. The lights ain't never killed nobody.  --Moms Mabley

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place. --Hal Lancaster

Modesty: The art of encouraging people to find out for themselves how wonderful you are. --Anon.

If you're not feeling eloquent, choose a good quote.

It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. --Revelation 21:6
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