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    Inspirational Quotes

    I love reading everyone's signature quotes. If you have any other inspiring, amusing or profound quotes or slogans, please post them here.

    Here's one of my favourites: "If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best."

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    Re: Inspirational Quotes

    Only the Phoenix rises and does not descend.
    And everything changes.
    And nothing is truly lost.

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    Re: Inspirational Quotes

    One of my favourites has always been :

    Life is not about how many breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.

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    Re: Inspirational Quotes

    There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will

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    Re: Inspirational Quotes

    "Time flies like an arrow, Fruit flies like a banana"

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    Re: Inspirational Quotes

    You can pick your friends,
    And you can pick your nose,
    But you can't pick your friends' noses.

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    Re: Inspirational Quotes

    Ok funny ones then..

    "outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read" G. Marx

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    Re: Inspirational Quotes

    I like these ones:

    " If you haven't made any mistakes recently, you must be doing something wrong"

    "Keep smiling - it makes people wonder what you have been up to "

    "Always do sober what you said you would do drunk. That'll teach you to keep your mouth shut."

    “ The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you’re really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you’ve been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”
    Richard Nixon

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    Re: Inspirational Quotes

    There's a poem called "The Invitation," am not sure if someone here has it, or could find it to post. (there's rep in it for whoever does... )

    As for inspirational quotes... my sig carries my favourites.

    P.S. Did you know there is more than one stanza in The Prayer of Serenity?!?

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    Re: Inspirational Quotes

    Here you go CJ,

    The Invitation

    It doesn't interest me what you do for a living
    I want to know what you ache for
    and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
    It doesn't interest me how old you are
    I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
    for love
    for your dreams
    for the adventure of being alive.
    It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
    I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow
    if you have been opened by life's betrayals
    or have become shrivelled and closed
    from fear of further pain.
    I want to know if you can sit with pain
    mine or your own
    without moving to hide it
    or fade it
    or fix it.
    I want to know if you can be with joy
    mine or your own
    if you can dance with wildness
    and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your
    fingers and toes
    without cautioning us to
    be careful
    be realistic
    to remember the limitations of being human.
    It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me
    is true.
    I want to know if you can
    disappoint another
    to be true to yourself.
    If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
    and not betray your own soul.
    If you can be faithless
    and therefore trustworthy.
    I want to know if you can see Beauty
    even when it is not pretty
    every day.
    And if you can source your own life
    from its presence.
    I want to know if you can live with failure
    yours and mine
    and still stand on the edge of the lake
    and shout to the silver of the full moon,
    "Yes."
    It doesn't interest me
    to know where you live or how much money you have.
    I want to know if you can get up
    after a night of grief and despair
    weary and bruised to the bone
    and do what needs to be done
    to feed the children.
    It doesn't interest me who you know
    or how you came to be here.
    I want to know if you will stand
    in the center of the fire
    with me
    and not shrink back.
    It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom
    you have studied.
    I want to know what sustains you
    from the inside
    when all else falls away.
    I want to know if you can be alone
    with yourself
    and if you truly like the company you keep
    in the empty moments.

    Hope it is the one you mentioned..

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    Re: Inspirational Quotes

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    "Time flies like an arrow, Fruit flies like a banana"
    Can't rep you, but I did try.

    DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY THIS HAPPENS?


    aAAaaaAaAAaaAAAAARRRGHGHGHGHGHHH!

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    Re: Inspirational Quotes

    Quote Originally Posted by jacksondonut View Post
    I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
    for love
    ...for 25 years now.

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    Re: Inspirational Quotes

    "Bah. Humbug."

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    Re: Inspirational Quotes

    Technically more a "lyrical moment", but...

    If I could tell the world just one thing
    It would be that we're all OK
    And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful
    And useless in times like these
    I won't be made useless
    I won't be idle with despair
    I will gather myself around my faith
    For light does the darkness most fear
    My hands are small, I know
    But they're not yours, they are my own
    But they're not yours, they are my own
    And I am never broken
    Poverty stole your golden shoes
    It didn't steal your laughter
    And heartache came to visit me
    But I knew it wasn't ever after
    We'll fight, not out of spite
    For someone must stand up for what's right
    'Cause where there's a man who has no voice
    There ours shall go singing

    Hands - Jewel

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    Re: Inspirational Quotes

    Ooo, good thread! I love these kind of quotes. Here are a few of my favourites:

    I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.

    I was normal once. I didn't like it.

    Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. - Charlotte Whitton

    Life is like the mail; sometimes you just don't get it.



    My old choir's motto:

    "If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance." - - African Proverb

    Also found these:

    When you dance, you don't sweat: you glow. -- Didi

    Any problem in the world can be solved by dancing.James Brown

    Good to know!

    More dance related quotes here: http://andabien.com/html/dance/quotes.php

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    Re: Inspirational Quotes

    Here's another few of mine:

    "Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life."

    And on a lighter note:

    "If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment!"

    "When a true genius comes among you, you shall know him by this sign. All the dunces of the World will be in confederacy against him."

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    Re: Inspirational Quotes

    Quote Originally Posted by Ceroc Jock View Post
    P.S. Did you know there is more than one stanza in The Prayer of Serenity?!?
    Here is the second stanza:

    Living one day at a time;
    Enjoying one moment at a time;
    Accepting hardships as the path to peace;
    Taking this sinful world
    as it is, not as I would have it;
    Trusting that God will make all things right
    if I surrender to His will.
    That I may be reasonably happy in this life,
    and supremely happy with Him forever in the next.

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    Re: Inspirational Quotes

    I think this was from Steven Wright:

    "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Isis View Post
    "When a true genius comes among you, you shall know him by this sign. All the dunces of the World will be in confederacy against him."
    ...in the pages of this forum. But I do not hold it against them, I promise!

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    Re: Inspirational Quotes

    Love is nothing in tennis but everything in life

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