Favorite quotes

My sig translated from Latin - An honest heart is a kingdom in itself - Seneca

 

Happy Birthday!! I hope your day is fantastic!

 

Thank you very much bookie.. :smt109 All has been well today.

 

"Stop worrying about what you should have or could have done, be proactive in what you can do or will do" - Blacktiger

 

This is really beautiful.

One of my favourites is a Nietzsche quote, loosely translated from German it means 'Nothing is worse than all regret about the past'....

It really resonates with me because there are a couple of things I have regrets about and I hate it. It takes time to let go...and this saying reminds me of that.

 

"Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either." -Aesop

 

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
-- Mark Twain

 

"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you." -Langston Hughes

 

"People can be divided into four groups - (1) Those who will make things happen...(2)Those who watch things happen...(3) Those who wonder what happened...(4)Those who don't realize that anything happened...which one are you?" (Author Unknown)

 

"I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know." -James Brown

 

"One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter." -James Earl Jones

 

This so hits home right now. Good one, hntr. I guess this is why God made tears - for those times when the words just won't come.

 

"Black people must stop acting like crabs in a barrel and work together.” -Black proverb

 

Ah dammit this one kills me a little bit right now too Chesbay...

Even harder than that is when you know the words, which mean so much to you, would not change a damn thing if said aloud.

*sigh*

 

dont know till you try

 

Yep, LB, I was there Tue night. Had a thousand things I wanted to say, but knew that nothing I said would change anything.

 

"Poor man want to be rich, rich man want to be king and king ain't satisfied until he rules everything"

 

I’m just saying that people can’t deny any ism or think that some are more or less subordinate except for sexism… I still think that in order to expand on all other isms, sexism has to be blown wide open…but there are thousands of green minds, young gullible 15 year old boys out there just starting to fall into the grain of what they’ve been told of what a man is supposed to be and there are plenty of tools to use. The most effective tool is entertainment” -Kurt Cobain,

 

Tried. Failed.

E-hugs

 

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK