Favorite quotes

Be humble for you are made of Earth. Be noble for you are made of stars. -Serbian proverb

 

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -Virginia Woolf, writer (1882-1941)

 

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. -Jerome K. Jerome, humorist and playwright (1859-1927)

 

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. -Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (1804-1864)

 

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. -Elbert Hubbard, author, editor, printer (1856-1915)

 

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. -Lois McMaster Bujold, writer (b. 1949)

 

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894)

 

When money speaks, the truth keeps silent. -Russian proverb

 

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live you life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice." - Native American Proverb

 

"Never make someone a priority, who only makes you an option"

 

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
Charles Swindoll

 

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian

 

"If you chase two rabbits both will escape." : chinese proverb

 

I remember saying this word for word a few years ago. Every time I see the quote being used, I feel like someone stole it from me, even though I might've just read it back online way back then too lol

 

Cool quote.

Though with some of the dreams I've been having lately, I have to wonder what type of book my soul is writing. :smt042

 

Right now, our government is doing things we think only other countries do."
- Van Halen: Right Now