Quotes/Inspiration

[Zarathustra]

I am a quote junkie...here are a few that I've found that inspired me to keep on keeping on.

We also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope." - Romans 5:3

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

If I did not believe in life, if I were to lose faith in the woman I love, if I were to lose faith in the order of things, even if I were to become convinced, on the contrary that everything is a disorderly, damned, and perhaps devilish chaos, if I were struck even by all the horrors of human disillusionment-still I would want to live, and as long as I have bent to this cup of life, I will not tear myself from it until I've drunk it all!
~Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov

"Midway along the journey of our life
I awoke to find myself in a dark wood"
~Dante Alighieri, opening lines of The Divine Comedy

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.-Albert Camus

"Examine the lives of the best and most fruitful people and peoples and ask yourselves whether a tree which is supposed to grow to a proud height could do without bad weather and storms: whether misfortune and external resistance, whether any kinds of hatred, jealousy, stubborness, mistrust, hardness, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which any great growth even of virtue is scarcely possible? The poison from which the weaker nature perishes strengthens the strong man - and he does not call it poison."
Nietzsche from the Gay Science

"Be patient and tough; someday this pain may be useful to you."
Ovid
(I "stole" this from Brian )

and for the survivors out there...

VENI VIDI VICI
-Julius Caesar

I am sure you all have your own...Let's hear it!
Darrel

[jess_march]

Great Darrel!! I love these!! Especially the one about an invincible summer! I plan to steal some for my blog :-)

Here are some I like:

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. --ABBEY, Edward

WHEN LIFE HANDS YOU LEMONS....Ask for the Tequila and Salt! (got this from a chain email!)

"Make me ready for whatever this day may bring.... and if I am to lie low, let me do it patiently" (excerpt from a prayer)

"This is a place where a door might be. Here where I am standing. In the light outside all the walls." W.S. Merwin

"When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?"
Epictetus, Discourses

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
Marcel Proust

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." Kahlil Gibran

[pine soul]

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able
to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror.
I can take the next thing that comes along.'
You must do the thing you think you cannot do." --Eleanor Rosevelt.

[SweetTea2]

Here are a few of my fav's. Don't know if they'll inspire, but like them anyway.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

-Carl Sandburg


Fear less, hope more
Whine less, breathe more
Talk less, say more
Hate less, love more and all good things are yours
Swedish Proverb

The trouble with the rat race is even if you win, your still a rat!
Lily Tomlin

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
Albert Einstein

Prepare your mind to receive the best life has to offer you.
Earnest Holmes

May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night, and the road downhill all the way to your door.
--An Irish blessing

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a ticking whether you are getting somewhere or standing still.
Lou Erickso

Joanna

[laura79]

My favorite during my treatments:
If your going through hell, keep going.
~Winston Churchill

Keep on Keepin on. That was said by Matthew McConnehey in Dazed and Confused right? love that haha
Hugs Laura

PS What about fight songs?
Beautiful, and Stronger by Christina Aguillera
Calling All Angels by Train (this was during my transplant my aunt bought me their CD because she thought of me when she heard that song)
We are the Champions by Queen

[Zarathustra]

funny you should mention the Churchill quote. I got a card just the other day from a friend that had that quote on it

I got "keep on keepin' on" from a Bob Dylan tune "Tangled Up in Blue", but now that I think about I think it is Dazed and Confused too

Darrel

[jam]

"Sometimes, if you don't let the big guys know you're afraid of them, all of a sudden they're not such big guys anymore." --Beaver Cleaver

Cool thread, Darrel. I love quotes.

[Hyla]

I read a Sci-Fi book many years ago called "Joy" that had a quote:

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Hyla

[Hyla]

From Dylan's (book?) Tarantula he said:

John Wayne might have kicked Cancer, but you ought to see his foot!

Hyla

[izzydoesit]

I love quotes, too, Darrel. If one could make a living at it, I'd have been a philosopher!

Here are some of my favorites:

We are what we repeatedly do – Aristotle

What is to give light must endure burning - Viktor Frankl

A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled – Plutarch

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue - Eugene Oneill

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you - Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how - Friedrich Nietzsche

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle - Albert Einstein

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places - Ernest Hemingway

Best,

Kim