topic Favourite Quotations in Community Spirit

Favourite Quotations

papermoon.lady — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 18:45:20 GMT

Post your favourite quotations here. 🙂

We could have a "quotation of the month" every month if there are enough quotations (the quotation with the most Helpfuls that would then be marked as Solution), or maybe we can mark as Solution all quotations with more than a certain number of Helpfuls, like 5 Helpfuls?

Any suggestions?

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papermoon.lady — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 18:46:20 GMT

"Be yourself - everyone else is already taken."

Oscar Wilde

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countessalmirena — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 19:57:26 GMT

❝No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.❞

— MEDITATION XVII, John Donne

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papermoon.lady — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 20:11:17 GMT

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Eleanor Roosevelt

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countessalmirena — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 20:40:23 GMT

❝We get no good

By being ungenerous, even to a book,

And calculating profits... so much help

By so much reading. It is rather when

We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge

Soul-forward, headlong, into a book’s profound,

Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth—

’Tis then we get the right good from a book.❞

— 2.4.4. Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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papermoon.lady — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 20:59:46 GMT

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

Ernest Hemingway

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countessalmirena — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 21:06:09 GMT

❝To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.❞

— The American Crisis, Thomas Paine

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springyzone — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 21:26:25 GMT

This isn't exactly a quote but we had a teacher (a nun) tell us this when I was in Year 7.

If you want to know if something is important or worth worrying about, use the 5 year rule.

If it will be affecting your life in some way in 5 years' time, it is important. If you will have forgotten it in 5 years' time, then take what you can from it and forget it.

She told this to us after about 90% of the class failed a Maths test and some girls got upset. LOL

She said the score wasn't important and we would have forgotten it in 5 years, all we needed to do was take note of the weak spots and work on them.

She wasn't quite right. I remember I scraped in at 54% but I know I wouldn't remember if she hadn't talked about it.

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papermoon.lady — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 21:55:09 GMT

@springyzone wrote:

She wasn't quite right. I remember I scraped in at 54% but I know I wouldn't remember if she hadn't talked about it.

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But maybe you remember mainly what she said about the 5-year rule, and indirectly about the test...

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I don't know, I still remember I had gone to Canberra for a few days years ago (more than 5 years ago!) and all went well, but on the last day the hotel called a taxi for me to go to the railway station, which happened to be very close (probably a 10-minute walk, but I could not carry all my bags, lol), so the taxi driver seemed to be annoyed and hate me. He basically threw the bags in the taxi without greeting or anything and was just rude, and to this day I don't know if it was something personal or just because it was such a short trip, but unfortunately I remember it even if that person was not important in any way in my life of course and I will never meet him again. I had not slept (I have insomnia even in normal circumstances, so you can imagine just before travelling, and also all the sadness that the holiday was over) so I looked messed up I guess, and maybe he thought there was something wrong with me, or maybe he was just tired of having to take people to the railway station from that hotel because it literally took a couple of minutes by taxi, so not much money for him... I don't know... 😞

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papermoon.lady — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 21:58:08 GMT

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

Cicero

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springyzone — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 22:16:18 GMT

but unfortunately I remember it even if that person was not important in any way in my life of course and I will never meet him again.

I have never taken the 5 year rule to mean we can't remember things. I think it was more a comment about how we personally respond to things, as in overly reacting to small things. It was a nun speaking, remember. She went on to say that what was important, the things we should be concentrating on, was how we lived our life, our core values. She didn't say to forget it (just said the score itself would be irrelevant in our lives in 5 years), just to take a lesson from it, see what we could learn from the test.

Actually if we turn your incident around, what we could take from it is that rudeness counts. The man may have thought it didn't matter, you were a stranger, who cares etc

But what it shows is that our everyday behaviour does impact on others more than maybe we realise. A little kindness goes a long way.

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viewmont1071 — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 22:28:02 GMT

Never trust a fart

anon

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papermoon.lady — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 23:52:20 GMT

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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ambercat16 — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 01:38:20 GMT

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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the_great_she_elephant — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 01:47:39 GMT

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

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papermoon.lady — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 01:56:04 GMT

Your quotation reminded me of another one:

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

(attributed to Albert Einstein)

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sandypebbles — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 02:02:08 GMT

The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on:

nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line,

nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.

Omar Khayyam

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twyngwyn — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 02:18:22 GMT

“When all the trees have been cut down, When all the animals have been hunted, When all the waters are polluted, When all the air is unsafe to breathe, Only then will you discover you cannot eat money …”

― Cree Prophecy

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twyngwyn — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 02:26:14 GMT

“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

― Lao Tzu

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twyngwyn — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 02:29:56 GMT

Actions speak louder than words, and are more to be regarded.

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“When all the trees have been cut down, When all the animals have been hunted, When all the waters are polluted, When all the air is unsafe to breathe, Only then will you discover you cannot eat money …”

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“If you are depressed you are living in the past.If you are anxious you are living in the future.If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

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“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”