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I'm always a sucker for a good quote. I try to hold on to the ones I like best. I save them, I write them on post-its, on index cards, even on a piece of cardboard if that's all I can find. Sometimes you hear a quote or a thought or something so profound you just know if you don't write it down right away you'll forget it and let's face it, we really shouldn't forget things we find to be profound. You probably think, well if it's so profound why would you forget it? That's a valid point but what if you are in middle of something else? What if your mind was focused on the road while you hear a quote on the radio, or what if you are on the phone while you hear something on the television in the distance? You never know where these quotes will find you, so you have to be ready but you also have to allow your mind to do it's thing too, so that's where the pen comes in.

Anyway here's a bunch of quotes I really feel and really think hard about from time to time. Perhaps you'll enjoy them and think about them too in some way. Oh, and also I added some of my own personally created quotes after the ones by famous people. From both lists let me know which ones you like, or moreso, tell me some of your favorites whether they are on this list or not.


"We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst." _ C. S. Lewis
"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw
"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
"Everything you have ever accomplished, began as a thought. Everything anyone has ever achieved, from cleaning the dishes to landing men on the moon, started as a thought. Thoughts are very powerful" - Ralph Marston
"Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart." - Charles Dickens
"It is better to light a small candle than to curse the darkness." - Confucius
"A flower that is not growing is dead" - anonymous
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H. G. Wells
"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing." - Ninon De L'Enclos
"Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong" - Oscar Wilde
"We judge ourselves on what we are capable of doing, while others judge us on what we've already done." - Oscar Wilde
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
"In an insane society, the sane man must appear insane" - Mr. Spock
"enlightenment is to have a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing" - anonymous
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - Anonymous
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates
"Don't open your eyes unless you believe, don't close your eyes unless you can dream." - Jayne Milburn
"Whatever limits us we call fate." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." - T. S. Eliot
"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell
"Nobody knows enough to be pessimistic." anonymous
"My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher." -Socrates
"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage." -- Lao Tzu
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." - Oscar Wilde
"He is richest who is content with the least." - Socrates
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." -Alexander Smith
"A man slept, and dreamed he was a butterfly. And when he awoke, he was not sure if he was a man who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly who dreamt he was a man." - Zhuang Zhou

Now these are some of my own quotes: (now of course I could be paraphrasing someone else's famous quote or maybe I've even copied something I heard sometime along the way, but as far as I know I thought of these ones)

-Quiet people are always talking.
-What a fool believes is never foolish to them.
-I never miss the things I don't know.
-2nd hand knowledge is just as valuable as 1st hand knowledge.
-Sounds are everywhere if you listen.
-A smile is never boring.
-Nothing's used, just experienced.
-Why think twice when you can think twice as much.
-The difficult is always easy to stop.(and vice versa)
-Knowledge makes things obvious.
-I don't know is never a trick answer.
-Are you better than me because you are more valuable to society, or because society is more valuable to you.
-I can only return to the places I know.
-On closed captioning: It's like watching the movie, and reading the book at the same time.
-(I'm pretty sure someone famous had to say this one I often get the feeling that I'm losing it, the problem is that I keep finding it.
-The life of the party is often the loss of concern over one's life.
-(party advice) To interact sucessfully one must act sucessfully.
-A genius is one who uses his madness constructively. A madman is one who uses his genius destructively.
-On my lovelife: I campaign for love, but I can't even get on the ballot.
-Smile when the world smiles, and cry when the world cries, but don't let the world make you cry for not smiling.
-Sometimes I wish daily life didn't have to happen everyday.