Famous (and not so famous) quotes

[Space Cadette]

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

[waiting for lilacs]

        Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
 
                               JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

[Space Cadette]

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

[waiting for lilacs]

 No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen

 Epictetus

[Space Cadette]

I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here."

Oprah Winfrey

[waiting for lilacs]

 I must learn to love the fool in me, the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

    Theodore Isaac Rubin

[Pollypocket]

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

Harold Kushner

[waiting for lilacs]

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


 

[Khala]

Intelligence is plentiful, but strength of character is not

Joseph Joffre

[waiting for lilacs]

 The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

M. Scott Peck

[Pollypocket]

And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Aeschylus

[waiting for lilacs]

         But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."
-Thomas Jefferson

[waiting for lilacs]

 

     
However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him. (Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux)

[Space Cadette]

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Gian Vincenzo Gravina

[Ronin]

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

-Mark Twain