Favourite Quotes Part 2

[arpy1]

oh my word!  if this lady is to be believed, would four decades or so do it, d'u think? 

[Dutch Uncle]

Here's one I made up myself, a few years ago. I'm doing my best to make this a life's motto for me:

"As long as you know it's what you think, you're not thinking that you know."

[Dutch Uncle]

"The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you're done."

(From a cartoon)

[Dutch Uncle]

"Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought."
Sir John Dalberg-Acton

[woodsgnome]

Live as if you were living already for the second time

                                  --Viktor Frankl

[woodsgnome]

Our lived lives might become a protracted mourning for, or an endless tantrum about, the lives we were unable to live. But the exemptions we suffer, whether forced or chosen, make us who we are.     
                   ---Adam Phillips

[Dutch Uncle]

"Bad laws are the worst sort of Tyranny"

Edmund Burke (Dublin, 12 januari 1729 – Beaconsfield, 9 juli 1797)

[I like vanilla]

"...Still I'll rise...."

-Maya Angelou


"I'm taking the long way
Taking the long way around"

-Dixie Chicks


OK, I might have cheated a bit. I really like that whole poem and that whole song, but they are too long to quote in their entirety here.

[JohnnyBoy]

"I wish I didn't know now, what I didn't know then"
   -Bob Segar Against The Wind

that song is so close to my heart since Ive gotten older especially that line.

[Dutch Uncle]

,,You can't 'bull'*) a Dutchman!"

Mitch Fenner, (a Welshman) in a recent interview as the current head-coach of the male-gymnastics team in the Netherlands
(since I was part of that team as a teen (loooooong way back in time  ) , it does carry a special message for me. Still, I have been 'bull'*ed , so it's not as true as I would like it to be.  )

edit: the factual quote got auto-censored. So I'll have to make do with this abbreviation. In fact I'm pleased I had to do this. I'd rather own up to my bull-ness than anything else.

[woodsgnome]

"If you travel far enough, one day you will recognize yourself coming down the road to meet yourself. And you will say—YES!"
--Marion Woodman

[Dutch Uncle]

YES

Lovely quote. Thanks. 

[woodsgnome]

Pay no attention to appearing;
Being is alone important.

...Andre Gide

[Rainydaze]

"You are not what has happened to you, you are what you choose to become."

Can't remember who said that but I love it.

[Dutch Uncle]

"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted."

Randy Pausch