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22-03-2008, 10:36 AM
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| |  Is There A Quotation That Rings True For You?
Maybe this has been done before, but I was thinking it might be nice to share some quotations that reflect where we have been, that show where we are right now, or that are inspiring us as we heal.
This one does all three for me:
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." - Eddie Rickenbacker
What quotation rings true for you right now? |
22-03-2008, 10:41 AM
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| | I love quotes!
I keep a document on my hard-drive of quotations that speak to me, here is one of my favorites - a bit long, but hey. (alright, maybe it's more of a passage!)
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medecine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tent-show whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.
-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
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22-03-2008, 10:58 AM
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This is a great idea ...
I have many favorites, but today is "Everything is made up of small pieces, just choose one piece and do it." |
22-03-2008, 11:19 AM
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Well, to go along with the courage theme, Shoshin,
"Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but those who fought, fell, and rose again."
Sorry, I don't know who said it, but I love it! |
22-03-2008, 02:15 PM
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It is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. |
22-03-2008, 02:25 PM
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Okay, I'm going to be a little obsessive - can everyone please try to give credit to the author of the quote, if you know it? It's respectful!
JustJane -That quote was by Tennyson (it's one of my favs). |
22-03-2008, 03:15 PM
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But don't refrain from posting if you do not know. We can all help each other find the sources. The main thing is to share the words that get us through.
I hear you, though, Linasmom. I am a teacher, and citation format is an important part of our curriculum.  |
22-03-2008, 09:38 PM
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22-03-2008, 11:08 PM
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This thread is like being in a sweety shop, so many to choose from. I will think on it!
Nice thread Shoshin.
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23-03-2008, 01:46 AM
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Shoshin -- great thread -- thanks for starting it!
A few of my favourites...
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? (Roger Bannister)
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. (Oscar Wilde)
The mind creates the abyss and the heart crosses it. (Sri Nisargatta)
I am larger, better than I thought. I did not know I held so much goodness. (Walt Whitman)
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