Lady Stardust in Romania is doing 33 things including…

List 100 quotes I like

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The end. 10 months ago

89. The superior man loves his soul, the inferior man loves his property. – Confucius

90. There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. – Steven Wright

91. A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don’t need it. – Bob Hope

92. When the heart overflows, it comes out through the mouth. – Ethiopian proverb

93. It takes a lifetime to learn how to live. – Judith Wright

94. To hide one lie, a thousand lies are needed. – India

95. Work is love made visible. – Kahlil Gibran

96. If one or two people tell you that you’re an ass, you can ignore them. But if three or four people tell you you’re an ass, you might think about putting on a saddle. – Yiddish saying (or the version that i knew: if someone tells you that you are drunk, ignore him, but if 2 people tell you that you’re drunk, go to sleep).

97. Work is a great diversion to keep you from dealing with yourself. – Cher

98. Come out of the circle of time, and into the circle of love. – Rumi

99. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. – Sophocles

100. In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. – Max de Pree



along the way 10 months ago

76. I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else. — G.K. Chesterton

77. Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy. — Albert Einstein

78. If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. — Albert Einstein

79. The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. — Terry Pratchett

80. If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

81. If language has the power to revive and make us free, it also has the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. – Ralph Ellison

82. Our greatest victory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. – Confucious

83. How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. – A Burmese Proverb

84. The most wasted day of all is that during which you have not laughed. – Sebastian R. N. Chamfort

85. Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace. – Buddha

86. We never ask the meaning of life when we are in love.
- Bhagawan

87. Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. – Carl Jung

88. Failures are fingerposts on the road to achievement-C.S. Lewis



adding some.. 10 months ago

58. If you talk to God, you’re religious. If God talks to you, you’re psychotic. And if God doesn’t talk to you, you’re deaf.

59. “People are more influenced by how much you care than how much you know.” – Anonymous

60. Happiness is something you can never reach, but it’s worth searching for it your entire life. – Tudor Chirila (i half agree with this quote. i believe that happiness is something you CAN reach, but i also think that searching for happiness is really worth it.)

61. I’ve destroyed all of my enemies, by turning them into friends, through forgiveness – Abraham Lincoln.

62. When we will forgive all, we shall gain all. – Saint John Chrysostom

63. An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. – M.K. Gandhi

64. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain

65. Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. – Franklin P. Jones

66. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

67. A friend is someone who knows all about you, and loves you just the same. – Proverb

68. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

69. Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably. – Walt Disney

70. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. – Mahatma Gandhi

71. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. – Mahatma Gandhi

72. There is more to life than simply increasing its speed. – Mahatma Gandhi

73. Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. – Albert Einstein

74. Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been. – Mark Twain

75. Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. – Joseph Addison



and so on... 10 months ago

41. “I’m here . . . which roughly translated means I would rather die than stay away from you. I’m an idiot. – Bella Swan” — Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

42. “When you can live forever, what do you live for?”
— Stephenie Meyer

43. “What do I look like? The Wizard of Oz? You need a brain? You need a heart? Go ahead. Take mine. Take everything I have. ”
— Stephenie Meyer

44. Don’t ever let anyone tell you that high school is supposed to be fun. High school is to be endured. – Stephenie Meyer

45. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. – Albert Einstein

46. We cannot love and be limited. – Alfred Adler

47. The future has a way of arriving unannounced. – George Will

48. Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. – John Lennon

49. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. – Tom Clancy

50. There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. – Aeschylus

51. The world is but a canvas to the imagination. – Henry David Thoreau

52. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

53. There are four basic food groups, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles. – Anon

54. There’s nothing better than a good friend, except for a good friend with chocolate. – Linda Grayson

55. Life is like a box of chocolates – you never know what you’re going to get. Forrest Gump

56. Save the Earth! (It’s the only planet with chocolate that we know of.)

57. Chocolate is nature’s way of making up for Mondays.



next... 10 months ago

13. I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs, or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me. – Hunter S. Thompson

14. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. – Euripedes

15. In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. – Daniel L. Reardon

16. You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

17. Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. – Henry Rollins

18. There is no right way – only your own way.

19. I hate mornings. they start too early in the day… – Garfield

20. What we think, that we become. – Mahatma Gandhi

21. Wherever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius

22. You see things and say ‘why?’, but I dream things that never were and I say ‘why not?’ – George Bernard Shaw

23. Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
- Steven Wright

24. Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. – William James

25. Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. William Dement

26. I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind. – Stephenie Meyer (author of Twilight)

27. Just because we’ve been dealt a certain hand, it doesn’t mean that we can’t choose to rise above – to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted. To try to retain whatever essential humanity we can. – Stephenie Meyer

28. I know love and lust don’t always keep the same company.
- Stephenie Meyer

29. Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end. – Stephenie Meyer

30. If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will protect upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family. I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. I will give you all this and more, until I get so exhausted and depleted that the only way I can recover my energy is by becoming infatuated with someone else.
— Elizabeth Gilbert (author of Eat, Pray, Love) – one of my favourite quotes, because it sums up my own habits in love. this quote shows perfectly how i’ve given everything for the one i’ve loved, every time, and how my only salvation was another person to love.

31. It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody elses life with perfection. — Elizabeth Gilbert

32. Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein

33. Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso

34. Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles. – Charlie Chaplin

35. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. – Friedrich Nietzsche

36. There is no remedy for love but to love more. – Henry David Thoreau

37. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. – J. R. R. Tolkien

38. Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. – Jane Austen

39. What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. – Oscar Wilde

40. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. – Aldous Huxley



first quotes 10 months ago

1. Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. – Janis Joplin

2. We are here to help one another along life’s journey. – William Bennett

3. In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more dynamic than love? – Igor Stravinsky

4. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. – Margaret Thatcher

5. Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. – Gore Vidal
6. Life is a succession of lessons that must be lived to be understood. – Helen Keller

7. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. – Victor Borge

8. There are no wrong turns. Only wrong thinking on the turns our life has taken. – Zen saying

9. Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn’t know that, so it flies anyway. – Mary Kay Ash

10. For what profit a man, if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? – The Gospel According to Mark

11. It doesn’t happen all at once… You become. – Margery Williams, author of The Velveteen Rabbit

12. What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
- Robert Schuller



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