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A "Words to live by" thread.........again.

A "Words to live by" thread.........again.

I'll start this off again....

"You may be only one person in the entire world, but if you're really lucky you might be the entire world to one person."


.....now, follow this example, and please keep it nice.
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Reply #1501 Top
"If in this lifetime, I wont get to have you, I'll make sure that if I meet you in my next life I wont have to think twice on saying that... I waited a lifetime to say I love you... Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind that makes it so difficult"

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Reply #1502 Top
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. ~Gertrude Stein
Reply #1503 Top
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reply #1504 Top
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
~Tom Stoppard
Reply #1505 Top
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
Reply #1506 Top
Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.
~Brett Butler
Reply #1507 Top
The wisest men follow their own direction.
~Euripides
Reply #1508 Top
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
~Germaine Greer
Reply #1509 Top
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

-our forefathers
Reply #1510 Top
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
~Rudyard Kipling
Reply #1511 Top
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

R. Buckminster Fuller
Reply #1512 Top

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think—rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.

John Dewey
Reply #1513 Top
Learning without thought is labor lost.

Confucius
Reply #1514 Top
Happiness is a how, not a what a talent, not an object.

Hermann Hesse
Reply #1515 Top
The place to be happy is here, the time to be happy is now.
Reply #1516 Top
When you love a woman
A joy that lasts forever
There’s a band of gold that shines
When you love a woman...
When you love, love, love, love
When you love a woman

You see your world inside her eyes
Reply #1517 Top
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost~
Reply #1518 Top
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
~Robert Frost~
Reply #1519 Top
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

~David Viscott~
Reply #1520 Top
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Jung
Reply #1521 Top

Love is everything it's cracked up to be-It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.


E. Jong
Reply #1522 Top
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Reply #1523 Top

It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.


Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
Reply #1524 Top
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

~Charles Kuralt
Reply #1525 Top
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

~Beaton