I COLLECT QUOTES. . . Here are some of my favorites

by Terry 84 Replies latest jw friends

  • Terry
    Terry

    Please post your favorites too

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    MY FAVORITE QUOTATIONS:

    You cannot change what you refuse to confront.

    Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

    Don’t think of cost. Think of value.
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    Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.

    Too many people buy things they don’t need with money they don’t have to impress people they don’t know.

    No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.

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    If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so.

    Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.

    Making one person smile can change the world – maybe not the whole world, but their world.

    Saying someone is ugly doesn’t make you any prettier.

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    The only normal people you know are the ones you don’t know very well.

    Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it.

    The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

    It’s better to be alone than to be in bad company.

    As we grow up, we realize it becomes less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.


    Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.

    Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak, sometimes it means you are strong enough and smart enough to let go and move on.

    Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein

    If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
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    Don’t choose the one who is beautiful to the world; choose the one who makes your world beautiful.

    Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is.

    While you’re busy looking for the perfect person, you’ll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.

    Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.

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    In life, if you don’t risk anything, you risk everything.

    When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.

    Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

    There isn’t anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.

    Trying to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

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    You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.

    People are more what they hide than what they show.

    Don’t listen to what people say, watch what they do.

    Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.
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    Anyone can come into your life and say how much they love you. It takes someone really special to stay in your life and show how much they love you.

    When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it’s probably time to change the people around you.

    When someone tells you, “You’ve changed,” it might simply be because you’ve stopped living your life their way.

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    Someone else doesn’t have to be wrong for you to be right.

    When you’re up, your friends know who you are. When you’re down, you know who your friends are.

    Don’t look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.

    If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you’re fooling yourself. That’s like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn’t eat him.

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    Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.

    Learn to appreciate the things you have before time forces you appreciate the things you once had.

    You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

    It’s better to know and be disappointed than to never know and always wonder.
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    There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go.

    If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. If you lie, it becomes a part of your future.

    What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while.

    You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.

    Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
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    If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
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  • adjusted knowledge
    adjusted knowledge
    If it smells like cologne leave it alone.
  • dubstepped
    dubstepped

    Run with those who search for truth, and run like hell from those that claim to have found it.

    Is the life you're living worth the price you're paying.

    (Those two were huge for me during my awakening. Also, nice idea for a thread. I like many of yours too.)

  • Finkelstein
    Finkelstein

    Thanks Terry, I will keep that list on file

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  • Iown Mylife
    Iown Mylife

    If it seems too good to be true, it is.

    Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious - Will Rogers

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    Terry, my fave of your list is: Don't think of cost, think of value.

    Marina

  • Twitch
    Twitch

    "We can't stop here; this is bat country..."

    Hunter S. Thompson

  • Bonsai
    Bonsai

    Out of Oblivion

    Into the fear of Oblivion

    Back to Oblivion -- The Circle of Life

  • talesin
    talesin

    The best revenge is to live well.

    Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends.

    ~ Oscar Wilde

    Was he bitter or not? The first quote appears to say 'no', and the second, hmmm. I enjoy and admire his duality; it is so very 'human'. There is no question that he had great wit, was a brilliant writer, and experienced much pain and persecution in his own life.

  • Twitch
    Twitch
    I must not fear.
    Fear is the mind-killer.
    Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
    I will face my fear.
    I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
    And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
    Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
    Only I will remain

    Dune, Frank Herbert

  • zeb
    zeb

    "As above so below." (or as you think it shall be) ancient sage.

    "Behave well. Think for the best. Speak kindly"--ancient sage.

    "To be really happy and really safe one ought to have at least two or three hobbies and they must all be real" --wlsc.

    "Success is never final, failure is never fatal, and it is courage that counts." wlsc.

    "Do unto others as you would have them do to you" ..jc

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