We often turn to the words of others for inspiration, guidance, or even just a good laugh. These words might come from favorite pieces of literature, song lyrics, a wise family member or friend, even movies or TV. I would like you to add a quote (or two..) that means something to you or that you just like as a comment to this post. Then add that same quote as a Text Gadget in the sidebar of your own blog.
I have a couple of quotes that I like:"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" (author George Eliot)
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."(author Maya Angelou)
"Love is the answer, at least to most of the questions of my heart."(musician Jack Johnson)
Your quote may be from a person you know or a person you don't. It may be funny or serious, thought-provoking or light-hearted. Just so it speaks to you. On the topic of "quotes," I'm adding a link here to a funny site that documents superfluous (extra, unnecessary) uses of quotation marks. Maybe it's only funny to me as an English teacher, but take a look: http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/. Be on the lookout for unneeded quotation marks in your world...maybe you could send one in.
"I am not young enough to know everything" - Oscar Wilde
ReplyDelete"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you into something else is the greatest accomplishment" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
ReplyDelete“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.
But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
"And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came." -John F. Kennedy
ReplyDelete"Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side." -Lauren Oliver, Delirium
ReplyDelete"Alright, I need to get this clover to the top of Mount Nool A.S.A.P. whatever that means. Probably, Act Swiftly, Awesome Pachyderm."-Horton Hears a Who
ReplyDelete“Science works on the frontier between knowledge and ignorance. We’re not afraid to admit what we don’t know. There’s no shame in that. The only shame is to pretend that we have all the answers.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson
ReplyDelete"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them- a desire , a dream, a vision." - Muhammad Ali
ReplyDelete"Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. "- J.K. Rowling
ReplyDelete"The problem with getting quotes off the internet is that you can't verify their authenticity" -Abraham Lincoln
ReplyDelete"Even the darkest hour has only 60 minutes"
ReplyDelete"Why should Caesar just get to stomp around like a giant while the rest of us try not to get smushed under his big feet? Brutus is just as cute as Caesar, right? Brutus is just as smart as Caesar, people totally like Brutus just as much as they like Caesar, and when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody because that's not what Rome is about! We should totally just STAB CAESAR!"
"So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.” -Stephen Chbosky, Perks of being a Wallflower
ReplyDelete"I'm sorry, if you were right I would agree with you." -Robin Williams
ReplyDelete"People think I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a jar on my desk." - Stephen King
ReplyDelete"One must be careful of book and what's inside them, for words have the power to change us." - Cassandra Clare
“The Answer to the Great Question… Of Life, the Universe and Everything… Is… Forty-two,’ said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”
ReplyDelete– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
ReplyDeleteAristotle Onassis
"Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come."
Ellen DeGeneres
"Not all who wander are lost."
J. R. R. Tolkien
"Hi Billy Mays here.."
ReplyDeleteBilly Mays
"I want my world to be fun."
Justin Bieber
"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
ReplyDeleteGandhi
"There will be an answer, let it be."
The Beatles
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
ReplyDelete― Dr. Seuss
Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.
Ryan Gosling
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ReplyDelete"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
ReplyDelete-- Dr. Seuss