meaningful quotes thread.

[LittleStan]

It is better to look for opportunities where you are than to look back with angst at where you have been.

 

[KingRuben]

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde

My Favourate
I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison

 

[Dextersmate]

If oranges were cxxnts, I,d be a jaffa

 

[Shadz69]

"Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning [to] consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul?”
- Eamon De Valera, on Victory Day in Europe, May 8, 1945, responding in a radio speech to criticism by Winston Churchill of Ireland’s neutrality in World War II,

 

[c4lv3rt]

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle--when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

I really like this one!!

 

[Bozo]

See location. Camus. All you need.

 

[ifwecouldjust......]

that which the caterpillar sees as the end.......the world sees as a butterfly

 

[Mark - TheBlue]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSYtQy9EqTA[/youtube]

 

[Lost Pilot]

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life."

-Unknown.

 

[gaudinho's stolen car]

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life."

-Unknown.

A beautiful sentiment, but I'm pretty sure we can credit that one with Forrest Gump?