Let's share our favourite quotes

[AntheaHolmes]

11 hours ago, kiku said:

My quote for today which has been accompanying me for some time now:

"Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come."
- by Victor Hugo

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This is a beautiful quote dear @kiku. I love Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" 

[kiku]

@AntheaHolmes Danke! 🌷 I must admit I haven't seen "Les Miserables", but maybe one day...?

[AntheaHolmes]

15 hours ago, kiku said:

@AntheaHolmes Danke! 🌷 I must admit I haven't seen "Les Miserables", but maybe one day...?

The book is amazing but I also like the 2012 version of the musical film. It's with Aaron Tveit. Also Anne Hathaway's voice is amazing. 

[kiku]

@AntheaHolmes Thanks for the info. I think I'll catch it next time it's on TV. 👍

Today's quote:

"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."
- by Marie Curie

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[kiku]

Today's quote:

"The brain is wider than the sky."
- by Emily Dickinson

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[kiku]

Today's quote:

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
- by Ella Fitzgerald

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[SleepingPhlox]

It's from a cartoon again, but hey. Adventure Time got mad deep sometimes!

"People get built different.  We don't need to figure it out, we just need to respect it." -Princess Bubblegum

[kiku]

@SpookingPhlox That's such a wise quote, and so true! Tolerance and respect are so important - and we should never forget to remind ourselves of that.
Thanks for sharing! ❤️

[jc475]

One of my favorite quotes as it helped me in times of grief:

”Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul, there is no such thing as separation”. - (Rumi)

[kiku]

@jc475 Thank you so much for this very touching quote! ❤️

I just shared it with someone who has recently suffered the loss of a loved one. 🌻

[kiku]

Today's quote:

"The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul."
- by Audrey Hepburn

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[Klingon]

"as far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality." -Albert Einstein. "God does not play dice with the universe."  - Albert Einstein 

[kiku]

@Klingon Thanks for sharing those two very wise quotes by Albert Einstein!
My favourite one among his quotes is this:

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

[AntheaHolmes]

"Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

- Oscar Wilde 

[kiku]

@AntheaHolmes Oh, this is so beautiful! ❤️ Thank you for sharing. 🌸

 

[AntheaHolmes]

13 hours ago, kikuwitch said:

@AntheaHolmes Oh, this is so beautiful! ❤️ Thank you for sharing. 🌸

 

My pleasure. Oscar Wilde is my favourite author and playwright. 

[kiku]

New year, new quotes!

Here comes a very powerful one I heard today:

"If we want peace, we have to be peace.
Peace is a practice and not a hope."

- by Thich Nhat Hanh

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[AntheaHolmes]

On 1/7/2024 at 10:13 PM, kiku said:

New year, new quotes!

Here comes a very powerful one I heard today:

"If we want peace, we have to be peace.
Peace is a practice and not a hope."

- by Thich Nhat Hanh

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This is so important in these trying times. 

[Leekermly]

Be easy on yourself. Life is lowkey whopping everyone’s ass😩😂. 

[TartanSneezer]

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall“

Oliver Goldsmith

its quite cheesy, but it’s one I think about a lot, especially whilst I was training in a new career

[AntheaHolmes]

"Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—
No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to death."

- John Keats (Bright Star) 

[AngelRain]

Sorry I haven't contributed in awhile. Life has been crazy lately. Anyway here's some more quotes from my collection for today.

"May those who love us, love us. And those who don't, may God turn their hearts. And if he can't turn their hearts, may he at least turn their ankles, so we'll know them by their limping." - old Irish proverb

 

"For the cold, strange eyes of a little mermaid and the gleam of her golden hair, we shall see, while above us, the waves roar and whirl, a ceiling of amber, a pavement of pearl." - Matthew Arnold

[kiku]

On 1/26/2024 at 1:12 PM, Barbie said:

Be easy on yourself. Life is lowkey whopping everyone’s ass😩😂. 

Hey everybody here, thanks for contributing! 😊
@Barbie Oh yes, being easy on yourself is definitely important!... Did you hear or read the quote somewhere, or is it your own thought? (Of course, we can quote ourselves too. 😉 )

On 1/27/2024 at 9:38 AM, TartanSneezer said:

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall“

Oliver Goldsmith

its quite cheesy, but it’s one I think about a lot, especially whilst I was training in a new career

@TartanSneezer There is so much truth in those words. I don't thnk it's cheesy at all. Actually, it reminds me of a Japanese expression, "fall seven times, get up eight times". I think about that a lot too! 💚

On 2/3/2024 at 10:01 PM, AntheaHolmes said:

"Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art—
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—
No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to death."

- John Keats (Bright Star) 

@AntheaHolmes Wow... what a beautiful piece of poetry! 😍

15 hours ago, AngelRain said:

Sorry I haven't contributed in awhile. Life has been crazy lately. Anyway here's some more quotes from my collection for today.

"May those who love us, love us. And those who don't, may God turn their hearts. And if he can't turn their hearts, may he at least turn their ankles, so we'll know them by their limping." - old Irish proverb

 

"For the cold, strange eyes of a little mermaid and the gleam of her golden hair, we shall see, while above us, the waves roar and whirl, a ceiling of amber, a pavement of pearl." - Matthew Arnold

@AngelRain The first one made me grin 😎 , and the second one is so poetic and romantic - it makes me feel as if I was in a world of fantasy. 💙

Thanks all for bringing this thread back to life! ❤️

[kiku]

"Revenge, revenge over and over! No sensible person would get the idea to wash away oil stains with oil, or ink stains with ink. Blood though, that's always supposed to be washed away with blood."

- From the novel “Lay Down Your Arms!” (German original title: “Die Waffen nieder!”) by Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914), Austrian-Bohemian novelist and pacifist

Bertha von Suttner was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

(Image created by Martin Maack, shared on Wikipedia)

[Leekermly]

13 hours ago, kiku said:

"Revenge, revenge over and over! No sensible person would get the idea to wash away oil stains with oil, or ink stains with ink. Blood though, that's always supposed to be washed away with blood."

- From the novel “Lay Down Your Arms!” (German original title: “Die Waffen nieder!”) by Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914), Austrian-Bohemian novelist and pacifist

Bertha von Suttner was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

(Image created by Martin Maack, shared on Wikipedia)

@kiku I saw the quote online somewhere 😅😅