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If you get confused listen to the music play.
- Robert Hunter
This was in my readings for Chanukah and I felt it was poignant enough to share here:
The soul of your fellow is a ready lamp, filled with the purest oil and equipped with all that is required to convert its fuel into a blazing flame. It only lacks the proximity of another lamp to ignite it. If your own soul is alight, its contact with another's soul will awaken its potential for light, so that it may illuminate its surroundings and kindle other souls, in turn.
~The Lubavitcher Rebbe
Savannah Nicole Logsdon-Breakstone Director of Advocacy
Just got one from a fellow advocate, not sure if it's good to keep in mind or not!
"There will be sleeping enough in the grave." - Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
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And another one as we are testing the block quote function, hm. . .
"The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don't take it personally when they say "no" - they may not be smart enough to say "yes.""-- Keith Olbermann
Savannah Nicole Logsdon-Breakstone Director of Advocacy
Since I just decided that that last one would become my signature quote, how about I celebrate by finding a bunch more quotes!
Here's the one that has been my go to signature quote since I was 15:
"Those that restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained"~ William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell
And here's some more I had in my facebook quotes section:
"When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve." - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (Chapter 11)
"If a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't abandon it just because it can kill you." ~ Poppy Z. Brite, on returning to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
"Only in history are reputations built on words alone; in legends, only deeds count." ~ Tomas Burger, Arthur Rex
If you're going to be creepy, at least try to do it with less fail. ~ Ilana
Savannah Nicole Logsdon-Breakstone Director of Advocacy
"Not everything that steps out of line, and thus 'abnormal,' must necessarily be 'inferior." - Hans Asperger
Savannah Nicole Logsdon-Breakstone Director of Advocacy
Here are some of my favorites I have on my multiply.com page.
"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisable to others
-Jonathon Swift- Irish,Writer
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"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said".
-Peter F. Drucker
1909-, American Management Consultant, Author
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"There's none so blind as they that won't see."
-Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist
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"Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have."
-Rhonda Britten
Founder, Fearless Living Institute
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."It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see".
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer."
-Henry David Thoreau
American, Author Quotes
Here is another one of my favorites. Some of the best quotes are lyrics from songs.
"It's not having what you want It's wanting what you've got"
-Sheryl Crow, 'Soak Up The Sun", lyrics.
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"You were my strength when I was weak,
You were my voice when I couldn't speak.
You were my eyes when I couldn't see,
You saw the best there was in me.
Lifted me up when I couldn't reach,
You gave me faith coz you believed.
I'm everything I am
Because you loved me."
Lyrics to: 'Because You Loved Me'- by Celine Dion
I like lyrics too, I was rather obsessed with Sarah McLachlan when I was 13 or 14. . . here's one that I loved:
I believe/this is heaven to no one else but me/and I'll defend it as long as/I can be left here to linger in
silence/if I choose to/would you try to understand. . .
Oh the quiet child awaits the day when she can break free/the mold that clings like desperation/
Mother can't you see I've got/to live my life the way I feel is right for me/might not be right for you but it's
right for me
- Sarah McLachlan, Elsewhere (Fumbling Towards Ecstasy)
and
All the fear has left me now/I'm not frightened anymore./It's my heart/that pounds beneath my flesh./
it's my mouth that pushes out this breath
and if I shed a tear I won't cage it./I won't fear love/and if I feel a rage I won't deny it./I won't fear love.-Sarah McLachlan, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (Fumbling Towards Ecstasy)If it takes my whole life/I won't break, I won't bend/It will all be worth it/Worth it in the end/
Because I can only tell you that I know/That I need you in my life/
When the stars have all gone out/You'll still be burning so bright. . .-Sarah McLachlan, Answer (Afterglow)and my ~song to live by~The world's on fire and/It's more than I can handle/I'll tap into the water/Try
and bring my share/ I try to bring more/More than I can handle/Bring it to the
table/Bring what I am able-Sarah McLachlan, World on Fire (Afterglow) (watch the youtube video)And I could Quote Sarah all day. Seriously, even if you don't like her music, read her lyrics.and some Amanda Palmer, who according to my mom I'm currently obsessed with:and I'm not gonna live my life on one side of an ampersand/ and even if I went
with you I'm not the girl you think I am/and I'm not gonna match you/cause
I'll lose my voice completely yeah/I'm not gonna watch you/Cause I'm not the
one that's crazy- Amanda Palmer, Ampersand (Who Killed Amanda Palmer)And this one always gives me a new burst of energy when Advo work is getting me down:but it’s better to waste your day watching the scenery change at a comatose rate/
than to put yourself in it and turn into one of those cigarette ads that you hate/
but while you were sleeping some men came around/said they had some
dimensions to take/i’m not sure what they were talking about but they sure
made a mess of your face/
but still, no one can stare at the wall as good as you, my babydoll/
and you’re aces for playing along/you’re almost human, even now/
and just 'cause they call themselves experts/ it doesn't mean sweet F*ck all-Amanda Palmer, Point of it all (Who Killed Amanda Palmer)
Savannah Nicole Logsdon-Breakstone Director of Advocacy
"Our struggle is not easy. Those who oppose our cause are rich and powerful, and they have many allies in high places. We are poor. Our allies are few. But we have something the rich do not own. We have our bodies and spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons."
- Cesar Chavez 1927-1993
No! I love to sleep lol. Reminds me of my mum who always had to have everyone working working working and never let them relax relax relax....
I want a LIKE button for this. ???
I love this thread!~
Here are a couple I like...
"I would like to be able to admire a person's opinions as I would their dog - without being expected to take it home with me." - Frank A. Clark
"Great minds like a think" - Anonymous
This is a great thread! Here are some of my favorite quotes from my Facebook page and also in my sig:
"Life's a journey, not a destination, and I just can't tell what tomorrow brings." - Aerosmith
"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." ~ Danny Kaye
"I'm going home, back to the place where I belong, where your love has always been enough for me. I'm not running from, no I think you got me all wrong, I don't regret this life I chose for me, but these places and these faces are getting old, so I'm going home." - Daughtry
"This is an example of believing in yourself, knowing who you are. Anybody that feels different or weird, screw it! Embrace it! Embrace each other's differences, ok? Celebrate it! It's cool to be different." - Adam Lambert
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... it's about learning to dance in the rain"
"Without music life would be a mistake." ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." ~ Ludwig van Beethoven
"I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality." ~ H.A. Overstreet
"Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel." ~ Buffy Sainte-Marie
"Music is one of the best ways to enjoy the present. It's not much fun to look forward to hearing music or to remember what a song sounded like last week, but music right now absorbs you and places you in the present moment." ~ Sonnett Branche
"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without." ~ Confucius
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels." ~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"
I have a lot on the ThinkExist.com Gadget on my blog but here's one I like:
“I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you.”-Colin Raye
as I have in my signature
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
“Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.”
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
~Mahatma Gandhi
Jewel's song "Hands" Bold emphasis is mine.
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
My hands are small I know
But they're not yours, they are my own
But they're not yours, they are my own
I am never broken
In the end only kindness matters
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't." Eleanor Roosevelt
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
- Albert Einstein
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They shut me up in Prose – Still! Could themself have peeped – |
| Emily Dickinson, c. 1862[18] |
Savannah Nicole Logsdon-Breakstone Director of Advocacy
Buddha Quotes
"Your work is to discover your world, and then with all your heart give yourself to it."
"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
"A jug fills drop by drop."
"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
These are some of my favorite qoutes:
"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art - write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."
--Neil Gaiman
"I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind."
--Neil Gaiman
"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."
— Emily Dickinson
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson
“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
-John Lennon
"Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost."
— Neil Gaiman
"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain
"Fairy stories are everywhere and everyday. We are all princes and princesses in disguise, or ogres or wicked dwarfs. All these histories are the histories of human nature, which does not seem to change very much in a thousand years or so, and we don't get tired of the fairies because they are so true to it."
-Annie Richie
Pretty much a quote that my sweetie even agrees suits me: "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." - Marilyn Munroe
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
- Audre Lorde
My favourite. ^_^
To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.-W.Arthur
There are lots of good quotes on twitter.. I love them, it's such a change to feel in harmony with someone else....
Say to yourself, I am going to work in order to see myself and free myself. While working, and in the work, I must be alert to see myself. When I see myself in the work I will know that that is the work I am supposed to do. I will not have much time for other people's problems. I will have to be by myself almost all the time, and it will be a quiet life.
— Agnes Martin
I exploit what is dangerous and scares me: misogyny, self-deprecation, social climbing, the constant longing for perfection. My work has always been about things in myself that I feel incredibly uncomfortable and embarrassed about.
— Lisa Yuskavage
One thing that's intrinsically a part of my personality is to take something that you thought you already knew and say "Maybe it's different than you think." Is the solar system just a bunch of rocks circling this blob of molten helium called the sun?…I sound like I'm stoned, but I'm not.
--Douglas Coupland
Oh yeah:
There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
Pablo Picasso
I usually don't hear song lyrics because of auditory stuff. I love this:
This is how it works: you're young until you're not, you love until you don't, you try until you can't, you laugh until you cry, you cry until you laugh, and everyone must breathe until their dying breath. - Regina Spektor, "On the Radio"
I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.
- Margaret Cho
and
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein
are both favourites of mine.
Here's some that I've found to be useful today:
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