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Go to http://quotationspage.com/random.php3 and browse the random quotes until you find five that you think reflect who you are or what you believe.
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Francis Maitland Balfour
I always knew i would look back on my tears and laugh but i never thought i would look back on the laughter and cry
Unknown
A kind word is like a spring day.
Russian Proverb
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
sinceoddmonster mentioned handwritten notebooks of quotes, I decided to add here some of the shorter ones I've written down:
"Greetings, you are alive." -Takashi Murakami
"Let the rest of mankind find me if it could" - John Hains, The Stars, The Snow, The Fire: Twenty-Five Years in the Northern Wilderness. Found in Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
"To be fascinated by ruin has always, it would seem, been a human tendency." - Rose Maculay, Pleasure of Ruins, found in Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition, by Jeff Byles
"...dramatic structure consists of the creation and deferment of hope. That's basically all it is." - David Mamet, Bambi Vs. Godzilla
"...the gap between the poetry she wrote and the poetry she contained was, for Natalie, something unsolvable." - Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman
"...I made a natural Arsenal supporter - I too was often dour, defensive, argumentative, repressed..."
"I have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things I cannot control, and of belonging to community whose aspirations I share complicitly and uncritically."
- both from Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch
"If one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is a consolation - indeed, a deep satisfaction - to be gained from this observation when looking back over one's life."
- Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
"Out of the quarrel with others, we make rhetoric, and of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry." - Yeats
"Light, the queen of colors..."
- from "Late Beauty," by Karl Kirchwey, or The Confessions of St. Augustine, not sure
"In the last analysis a haiku is a complete world." - Kenkichi Yamamoto, Junsui Haiku (June)
"Every narrative utters the secret pain of family." - David Thomson, Suspects
"Where there is no imagination there is no horror." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"...and if there's no news, I'll go out and bite a dog." - Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas), Ace in the Hole, directed by Billy Wilder, written by Billy Wilder and Lesser Samuels
"I think your first film should be made with your own blood." - Jean-Pierre Melville
“Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.”
- Momoko Ryugasaki ~Shimotsuma Monogatari (Kamikaze Girls) (novel by Novala Takemoto, movie directed/written by someone else sorry I'm lazy)
oddmonsterGo to http://quotationspage.com/random.php3 and browse the random quotes until you find five that you think reflect who you are or what you believe.
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Francis Maitland Balfour
I always knew i would look back on my tears and laugh but i never thought i would look back on the laughter and cry
Unknown
A kind word is like a spring day.
Russian Proverb
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
since
oddmonster mentioned handwritten notebooks of quotes, I decided to add here some of the shorter ones I've written down:"Greetings, you are alive." -Takashi Murakami
"Let the rest of mankind find me if it could" - John Hains, The Stars, The Snow, The Fire: Twenty-Five Years in the Northern Wilderness. Found in Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
"To be fascinated by ruin has always, it would seem, been a human tendency." - Rose Maculay, Pleasure of Ruins, found in Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition, by Jeff Byles
"...dramatic structure consists of the creation and deferment of hope. That's basically all it is." - David Mamet, Bambi Vs. Godzilla
"...the gap between the poetry she wrote and the poetry she contained was, for Natalie, something unsolvable." - Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman
"...I made a natural Arsenal supporter - I too was often dour, defensive, argumentative, repressed..."
"I have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things I cannot control, and of belonging to community whose aspirations I share complicitly and uncritically."
- both from Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch
"If one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is a consolation - indeed, a deep satisfaction - to be gained from this observation when looking back over one's life."
- Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
"Out of the quarrel with others, we make rhetoric, and of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry." - Yeats
"Light, the queen of colors..."
- from "Late Beauty," by Karl Kirchwey, or The Confessions of St. Augustine, not sure
"In the last analysis a haiku is a complete world." - Kenkichi Yamamoto, Junsui Haiku (June)
"Every narrative utters the secret pain of family." - David Thomson, Suspects
"Where there is no imagination there is no horror." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"...and if there's no news, I'll go out and bite a dog." - Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas), Ace in the Hole, directed by Billy Wilder, written by Billy Wilder and Lesser Samuels
"I think your first film should be made with your own blood." - Jean-Pierre Melville
“Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.”
- Momoko Ryugasaki ~Shimotsuma Monogatari (Kamikaze Girls) (novel by Novala Takemoto, movie directed/written by someone else sorry I'm lazy)
