What is your favorite quote (or quotes!)?

Mine is (for inexplicable reasons that I've yet to fathom): "There is no shame in falling down. True shame is to not get up again." It's a rough translation of a quote said by Midorima Shintarou in Kuroko no Basuke. For some reason, it just really caught my attention, and it's stuck with me ever since. (:

Picked these from my favourite quotes list... :D

"Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

• Ernest Hemingway

"Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy."

• Robert Tew

"Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?"

• Shirdi Sai Baba

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

• Leo F. Buscagli

"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."

• W. Somerset Maugham

I like that last quote, !! :)

I have quite a few favorite quotes, but none of them are anything more than snippets from poems ("But it was myself who had lost wisdom, who was damned to the world..") or bits from novels ("Such packs men make. How can you hunt together when you cannot all run in the same direction?"). I still like 'em, though :F

Those are some great quotes! I especially love the second to last one ^o^

Yo, hey, quotes are still quotes! And those are some pretty great ones! 8D

Thanks for sharing :D

“I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.” ― Ferdinand de Saussure

I have a few favorite quotes.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" ~ Jack Kuroac

Love that is not madness is not love. ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. ~ Anais Nin

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter. ~Bernard Baruch

If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will its whole life believing it is stupid. ~Einstein

Those are a couple that I can think of off the top of my head. I have a huge book of them somewhere though. I'm a collector of quotes c:

, , - Thank you guys for sharing some quotes! (:

Here's one I found today: " When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell

My favourite quote:

"Life means, having more dreams in your soul than reality can ever destroy."

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I'm glad you like the quotes. n__n Thank you so much for the gifts! <3

- Thanks for sharing, that's a lovely quote! (:

(Loving your UN as well!) And you're very welcome! ♥

“Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.”

• Stephen King

Oh no oh no tries to limit this because I have so many favorites.

And God said “Love Your Enemy,” and I obeyed him and loved myself. » Khalil Gibran

If I cannot move Heaven, I will raise Hell. » Virgil’s Aeneid, book VII.312

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for. » Tucker Max, Assholes Finish First

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. » Ernest Hemingway

The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies. » ???

Also the quote posted by Stephen King goes down under my favorites. b:

"It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." -- Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul." -- Pablo Neruda

“I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.” -- Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn [sub]i have too many favourite quotes from that book, it's impossible to pick one[/sub] :)

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." -Arthur O'Shaughnessy

"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?" -Edgar Allan Poe

"I will not burn myself to keep you warm." -unknown

"All sunshine makes a desert." -Arab proverb

Is there a quote in finding peace and happiness in dark things? Because dark things that somehow make their way make me feel like it's okay to be a flawed human being, even if some people hate me. The darkness is honest and our eyes adjust to it. The light sugarcoats the truth and blinds us.

"If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it doesn’t, then it was never meant to be."

"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here, we may as well dance." - Jeanne C. Stein

"If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission." - ...?

"Before you know it, it's 3 AM and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it's like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart." - unknown

"Just like our eyes, our hearts have a way of adjusting to the dark." - Adam Stanley

"They've promised that dreams can come true, but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams too." - Oscar Wilde (and pretty much everything else that man has ever said)

"Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well." - Jack London

"When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back to what she had always been. But she had wings." - Dean Jackson

"A library is a hospital for the mind." - unknown

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." - Mark Twain

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Einstein

"Words and hearts should be handled with care, for words, when spoken, and hearts, when broken, are the hardest things to repair." - ...?

"We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create dreams." - Einstein

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." - Lewis B. Smedes

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." - Henry Ford

"The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense." - Aldous Huxley

...I like quotes.

"Like everyone else, you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind." - Morpheus, The Matrix

Not exactly inspirational, but it helps me to think of the world this way when I feel boxed-in or alienated. I'm 'closeted' when it comes to a lot of things, but when I remember how so many social issues are based on established constructs, being unorthodox doesn't feel so 'weird' or 'sinful', ya know? Life consists of all sorts of bonds you must break. Breaking the chains is scary, but doing so will "free your mind". hehe...

Idk. Everything from The Matrix is like gospel to me.

"If I am a witch, then so be it, I said. And I took to eating black things - huitlacoche the corn mushroom, coffee, dark chiles, the bruised part of fruit, the darkest, blackest things to make me hard and strong." - Sandra Cisneros, 'Eyes of Zapata'

this one has always struck really close to home with me

My favorite will always be a Shakespeare quote. "And though she be but little, she is fierce."