posted on November 28, 2001 07:22:54 AM new
I promised to start a thread today about uplifting inspirational quotes, to counterbalance the slight sense of cynicism we were all expressing last night in the other quotes thread.
Here's a few from one of my favorite writers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Another one that has had a profound impact on me is very common, but very meaningful to me:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
posted on November 28, 2001 08:36:56 AM new
"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it."
Henry Emerson Fosdick
"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
Marcel Proust
posted on November 28, 2001 11:23:35 AM new
Enchanted now you are making me work! Uplifting quotes. Not my favorite kind but I'll see what I can find! LOL
posted on November 28, 2001 11:29:45 AM new
"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down."
Charles F. Kettering
posted on November 28, 2001 11:40:16 AM new
"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
Andy Warhol
"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."
Lord Chesterfield
"One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid."
Jonathan Swift
"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
Samuel Butler
"Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts."
Georges Rouault
There. Maybe not completely uncynical but the best I can do right now.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.
Adlai Stevenson...of Eleanor Roosevelt
We look forward in a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression---everywhere in the world. The second is is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way---everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want----everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear...everywhere in the world.
