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"Learn from yesterday, Live for today, & Hope for tomorrow"
I dont know who said it though but I love that quote.

I also like

"Once or twice in our lives, we are given the chance to find out just how much inner strength we possess, usually we find that we have far more then we ever imagined."

-- Edited by ranchera20 at 22:31, 2007-09-15

I am the queen of quotes. I love them. These are my favorites:

"It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up." -W. Somerset Maugham (I have this one hanging over my bed.)

"We should take care not to make intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." -Albert Einstein

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We shall not cease from our exploration/and the end of all our exploring/will be to arrive where we started/and know the place for the first time." -T.S. Eliot

"Life isn't a support system for art; it's the other way around." -Stephen King

"Sara grew up to be a copy editor, a profession she compares to walking behind an elephant in a parade and scooping up what it has left on the road. " -Anne Fadiman

"such a sky and such a sun/I never knew and neither did you/and everybody never breathed/quite so many kinds of yes." -e.e. cummings,

Pretty much the entire poem, "Bei Hennef" by D.H. Lawrence, but especially these lines: "You are the call and I am the answer/you are the wish, and I the fulfillment/You are the night, and I the day./What else - it is perfect enough./ It is perfectly complete,/you and I,/what more--?/Strange, how we suffer in spite of this."

"A witty saying proves nothing." -Voltaire

this random page has a great collection of quotes.

Here are a few of mine...

Voyage upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And whatever your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe- ???

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it's always ourselves we find in the sea- e.e. cummings (I think)

If there's anything half so much fun as being alive, i'd like to know what it is- Frederick Buechner

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat- Theodore Roosevelt

These are a few of my favorites

Jean Genet, this truly amazing French author once wrote "The family is the first prison"

My favorite author, this bad-ass literary lioness named Helene Cixous wrote this one line that is the maxim which I live by "In love not all is love"


from "the long walk to freedom: the autobiography of Nelson Mandela"

Our deepest fear is not tht we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us: it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we
unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Collette wrote:

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from "the long walk to freedom: the autobiography of Nelson Mandela"

Our deepest fear is not tht we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us: it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we
unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

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I have this quote pinned above my desk, I look at it every day :)