I saw this meme on kottke.org (who saw it on River Damp), but I thought it was worth mentioning.
Go here and look through random quotes until you find five that you think reflect who you are or what you believe.
Here are mine:
- If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. (Rene Descartes)
- Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. (Abraham Lincoln)
- The secret of happiness is not in what one likes to do, but what in one has to do. (James M. Barrie)
- Last words are for people who haven’t said anything in life. (Karl Marx)
- Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only what you are expecting to give–which is everything. (Katharine Hepburn)
What are yours?
I couldn’t just pick five quotes…here are my six:
- Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson
- Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
Robbie Gass
- To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
- A finished person is a boring person.
Anna Quindlen
- The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne
- The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
J. K. Rowling
The Dude’s Top 5 Quotes
He’s the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch.
-Unknown
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
-Andrew S. Tanenbaum
The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.
-Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
-Bertrand Russell
The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day…
-Donald Barthelme
you know there is no way i could do just five. take a look at my blog to see my favorite of the day.
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Alli’s Quotes:
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. – Aaron Rose
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. – Woodrow Wilson (1856 – 1924
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me. – Simone de Beauvoir
I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. – Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954)
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. – Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973)