Inspirational Quotes

[Isis]

I love reading everyone's signature quotes. If you have any other inspiring, amusing or profound quotes or slogans, please post them here.

Here's one of my favourites: "If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best."

[azande]

Only the Phoenix rises and does not descend.
And everything changes.
And nothing is truly lost.

[KatieR]

One of my favourites has always been :

Life is not about how many breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.

[Beowulf]

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will

[Dreadful Scathe]

"Time flies like an arrow, Fruit flies like a banana"

[straycat]

You can pick your friends,
And you can pick your nose,
But you can't pick your friends' noses.

[Beowulf]

Ok funny ones then..

"outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read" G. Marx

[Dizzy]

I like these ones:

" If you haven't made any mistakes recently, you must be doing something wrong"

"Keep smiling - it makes people wonder what you have been up to "

"Always do sober what you said you would do drunk. That'll teach you to keep your mouth shut."

“ The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you’re really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you’ve been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”
Richard Nixon

[CJ]

There's a poem called "The Invitation," am not sure if someone here has it, or could find it to post. (there's rep in it for whoever does... )

As for inspirational quotes... my sig carries my favourites.

P.S. Did you know there is more than one stanza in The Prayer of Serenity?!?

[jacksondonut]

Here you go CJ,

The Invitation

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dreams
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life's betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your
fingers and toes
without cautioning us to
be careful
be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand on the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
"Yes."
It doesn't interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after a night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.
It doesn't interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the center of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.

Hope it is the one you mentioned..

[Barry Shnikov]

Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe

"Time flies like an arrow, Fruit flies like a banana"

Can't rep you, but I did try.

DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY THIS HAPPENS?


aAAaaaAaAAaaAAAAARRRGHGHGHGHGHHH!

[Barry Shnikov]

Originally Posted by jacksondonut

I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love

...for 25 years now.

[Barry Shnikov]

"Bah. Humbug."

[Ghost]

Technically more a "lyrical moment", but...

If I could tell the world just one thing
It would be that we're all OK
And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful
And useless in times like these
I won't be made useless
I won't be idle with despair
I will gather myself around my faith
For light does the darkness most fear
My hands are small, I know
But they're not yours, they are my own
But they're not yours, they are my own
And I am never broken
Poverty stole your golden shoes
It didn't steal your laughter
And heartache came to visit me
But I knew it wasn't ever after
We'll fight, not out of spite
For someone must stand up for what's right
'Cause where there's a man who has no voice
There ours shall go singing

Hands - Jewel

[ShinyWeeStar]

Ooo, good thread! I love these kind of quotes. Here are a few of my favourites:

I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.

I was normal once. I didn't like it.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. - Charlotte Whitton

Life is like the mail; sometimes you just don't get it.



My old choir's motto:

"If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance." - - African Proverb

Also found these:

When you dance, you don't sweat: you glow. -- Didi

Any problem in the world can be solved by dancing. — James Brown

Good to know!

More dance related quotes here: http://andabien.com/html/dance/quotes.php

[Isis]

Here's another few of mine:

"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life."

And on a lighter note:

"If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment!"

"When a true genius comes among you, you shall know him by this sign. All the dunces of the World will be in confederacy against him."

[Isis]

Originally Posted by Ceroc Jock

P.S. Did you know there is more than one stanza in The Prayer of Serenity?!?

Here is the second stanza:

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the path to peace;
Taking this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that God will make all things right
if I surrender to His will.
That I may be reasonably happy in this life,
and supremely happy with Him forever in the next.

[straycat]

I think this was from Steven Wright:

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"

[Barry Shnikov]

Originally Posted by Isis

"When a true genius comes among you, you shall know him by this sign. All the dunces of the World will be in confederacy against him."

...in the pages of this forum. But I do not hold it against them, I promise!

[AllanMcC]

Love is nothing in tennis but everything in life