Favourite Quotes Part 2

Started by Kizzie, September 10, 2015, 03:31:29 PM

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Dutch Uncle

I've posted this before, yet I'll do it again for Stacey:

"Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard."
Nietzsche, from "The gay (happy) science"

Welcome, once more.  :thumbup:

JohnnyBoy

I like Nietzsche, have studied some of his work

stacey

You are a lovely man, Dutch Uncle (I keep thinking Dutch oven whe  I see your name so hopefully that stops soon :)

I always thought Nietsche was this stodgy old nihilist until i kept coming across these wonderful quotes of his and realised that box he's in is way too much of a caricature.

Dutch Uncle

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JohnnyBoy

Very nice and i so completely agree

Dutch Uncle

"The mind is like a parachute: It doesn't work unless it's open."

Frank Zappa (as attributed to him by his son Dweezil.)


Dutch Uncle

When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.

Haruki Murakami

NB: Is this where the name of this site originates from?

Kizzie

Hi Dutch - it's not but the quote is quite relevant.   :thumbup: 

Dutch Uncle

#39
A scary one. Yet hopeful: It keeps me on my feet during my worst times.

Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.
Rae Smith

Dutch Uncle

When it looks as if life is falling apart, it may just be falling together.

OCC

Atticus Finch


"Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world" - Desmond Tutu

So often the whole goal is overwhelming and we do nothing or burn ourselves out. -By trying to change too much too soon.

And we forget the power of others.

Dutch Uncle


Dutch Uncle

This made me laugh. It's funny 'cause it's true.

"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one * of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult."

E. B. White

woodsgnome

"The greatest lie of all is the feeling of firmness beneath our feet. We are at our most honest when we are lost."...Soren Kierkegaard.