Post Your Favorite Quote(s)!

[DaveFromChicago]

"There is no such thing as love; only evidence of love."

Marcel Proust

Something Clever:

"I am surprised that so much historical writing is so dull, since so much of it had to have been invented."

Jane Austen

"Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history."

Novalis

"Men are governed by words."

Unknown, possibly attributed to Edmund Burke

 

[Greg Sacramento]

Thinking about this reference again. Hemingway on Farewell to Arms - said please use the complete quote. The beginning was often quoted, but not the rest which reverses the meaning.

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."

Music poets - Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet - Wikipedia

Been to the woods and when there was snow, but now my woods have been replaced by houses and streets.

My favorite: Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

 

[Jazzer]

 

[Jazzer]

"Hell is other people."

'Yes - it surely can be…….x'

 

[Christiaan]

''On bended knee is no way to be free'', from the song ''Guaranteed'' (2007) by Eddie Vedder

 

[Jazzer]

 

[Jazzer]

 

[mcgregor]

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?"

― Tennessee Williams

 

[Jazzer]

 

[Elmer B Fuddled]

If you remember everything, you don't have to lie.

 

[Jazzer]

 

[Christiaan]

 

[Tatsopa]

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves"

- Uncle Albert (Einstein)

 

[Jazzer]

 

[Jazzer]

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Meet my boy Percival
Meditational Grand Master.

 

[Christiaan]

Meet my boy Percival
Meditational Grand Master.

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I'm not so into cats but I'm willing to make an exception for your Percival @Jazzer. He's definitely the George Clooney among the cats

 

[Jazzer]

I'm not so into cats but I'm willing to make an exception for your Percival @Jazzer. He's definitely the George Clooney among the cats

He liked that comparison Christiaan.

From now on you may refer to him as Percy - an offer he only extends to very few.

 

[DaveFromChicago]

Here's two final ones:

"If there were another race other than the human race, I would join it."

Gore Vidal, attributed to his Grandfather

In how the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are acting in Afghanistan:

"Winners have no shame, no matter how they win."

Machiavelli

 

[ALS]

I think about this one a lot:

"Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."

- Bruce Lee

 

[Jazzer]

 

[Mister Muso]

 

[DaveFromChicago]

Nicholas Pileggi in his book "Goodfellas" said there was a joke that circulated among New York City Police Detectives:

"What does a Mob Boss regard as unnecessary violence? Violence that he didn't order."

This seems especially germane in regard to the Taliban now blaming ISIS for the terror attacks.

 

[DaveFromChicago]

A New York City Paramedic was once asked "What is the worst thing you ever saw?"

He replied, "Lima Beans on Pizza."

 

[Elmer B Fuddled]

It is better to keep your mouth shut when people think you are a fool, then to open it and prove all doubt.

 

[Christiaan]

From the book Dune (1965), by Frank Herbert

 

[DaveFromChicago]

"If there were another race besides the human race, I would join it."

Gore Vidal, attributed to his Grandfather.

"The World is what it is. Men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."

The beginning sentence in V.S. Naipaul's "A Bend in the River."

"Rich man and his poorer brother
Stood and looked at one another
Till the poor one softly swore
You'd not be rich if I weren't poor."

Bertolt Brecht

 

[TracyJS]

There are two kinds of people in the world.
Those who upon seeing someone else suffering think that could happen to me, and those who think that will never happen to me. The first kind of people help us endure. The second kind make life hell.

The person who automatically dismisses someone's suffering as that will never happen me so why should I be concerned... I find that kind of person really quite terrifying

—Sigrid Nunez

 

[Jazzer]

There are two kinds of people in the world.

Those who upon seeing someone else suffering think that could happen to me, and those who think that will never happen to me. The first kind of people help us endure. The second kind make life hell.

The person who automatically dismisses someone's suffering as that will never happen me so why should I be concerned... I find that kind of person really quite terrifying

—Sigrid Nunez

"If we lack kindness we are nothing"

 

[Greg Sacramento]

@TracyJS, I read two of Sigrid Nunez books.

What Are You Going Through and The Friend.

I've only read a small number of other books in the few years.

One other was -
I Wasn't Ready To Say Goodbye by Pamela Blair

 

[Jazzer]

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."

— Oscar Wilde

"If you can discover your essential beauty, in spite of all your problems and imperfections, you are on the way toward well-being. A preliminary step is simply to accept yourself with all your failures and imperfections. You must get the ego out of the way—the thought that you are so exalted that in your refined state you would be perfect. Acceptance is the beginning of genuine and honest self-love, a requirement for perceiving your own beauty. "

— Thomas Moore

"Being true to who we are means carrying our spirit like a candle in the center of our darkness. If we are to live without silencing or numbing essential parts of who we are, a vow must be invoked and upheld within oneself. The same commitments we pronounce when embarking on a marriage can be understood internally as a devotion to the care of one's soul: to have and to hold … for better or for worse … in sickness and in health … to love and to cherish, till death do us part. This means staying committed to your inner path. This means not separating from yourself when things get tough or confusing. This means accepting and embracing your faults and limitations. It means loving yourself no matter how others see you. It means cherishing the unchangeable radiance that lives within you, no matter the cuts and bruises along the way."

— Mark Nepo

For anyone who needs those words today. I know I do.

@Labyrinthine, I had never come across either of these quotations.

My childhood taught me that I was nothing.
It came very close to my total destruction.
After 79 years it is something that I still need to confront on a daily basis.

Thank you so much for your posting.