What's your favorite quote or quotes? (citations required)

[Silvia Sianto]

“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

[Casandra Sicily]

I tend to use quotes and sayings. One of my favorites is "Where there's a will there's a way" is said to have first appeared in the collection of sayings called “Jacula Prudentusm” which was collected by George Herbert.

[Tomy Chandrafrost]

Ehipassiko, Come and find the truth by yourself - Buddha

[Shiloh Stone]

Kiss a lover,
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure.

Face your life,
It’s pain,
It’s pleasure,
Leave no path untaken.

-Neil Gaiman, “The Graveyard Book”

[Miriam Ratemo]

Everyone burns, as the Buddha says, in their own way. Some burn with anger, some with lust, some with the desire for vengeance, some with fear. But inside us burn many fires, not just one. We are legion, we contain a multitude."

[João Ramos]

“Full freedom will come only when it makes no difference whether to live or not to live. That's the goal for everyone.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[Lorna Kimondo]

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." – Albert Einstein

Such a humorous way of contrasting the expanse nature of the universe and the complex nature of human behavior.

[Genesis Haney]

Inspiring Quotes to Motivate and Uplift

Quotes have the power to inspire, motivate, and uplift us. Here are some of my favorite quotes, along with their citations:

1. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt (Source: "The Strenuous Life," 1899)

A reminder that having a positive mindset is crucial to achieving our goals.

2. "The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs (Source: Stanford University Commencement Address, 2005)

A testament to the importance of passion and enjoyment in our work.

3. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt (Source: "This Is My Story," 1937)

A quote that encourages us to have faith in our aspirations and work towards making them a reality.

4. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill (Source: "The History of the English-Speaking Peoples," 1958)

A reminder that perseverance and courage are essential for overcoming obstacles and achieving success.

5. "Be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi (Source: "Hind Swaraj," 1910)

A call to action to make a positive impact on the world around us.

[SunVixen]

It's probably a bit odd to quote characters from a fantasy book next to the words of Mahatma Gandhi, Steve Jobs and even Buddha.

But people have already quoted Neil Gaiman here, so I'll add some great quotes from a Chimeras of Estmer, a fantasy book I read recently.

“To be” and “to be like” are two different things, my dear.”

“In my opinion, being human means helping people when you can, and not letting anyone do evil things in your presence.”

“People are just like apples. They need their time to ripen for change.”

“You're human when you act human.”

“You will be free when you stop being afraid.”

There are other good quotes, but not all of them make sense out of context.

[wedwilson]

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.”

- By Henry Ford

[rayreads9]

My favorite quote by my favorite character is:

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.''
~Albus Dumbledore.

- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling.

[Asario Fox]

Too many to list here. ... Leonardo Davinci's "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" comes to mind immediately. Sums him up, I guess.

[Tiffany Dowell]

All Time Favorite: The entire chapter titled Will in Orson Scott Card's book Wyrms. (Seriously, it will change your life).

Other Favorites:

solitude, extended for a sifficiently long period of time, becomes its own reward and nourishment. A weary souls voice aloud can become repugnant to its own ears, and for years these had been the only voices he had heard, and spoken back to, until they had become his own voice." --Couldsplitter

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. -Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

*I'm going to drag you kicking and screaming fighting you all the way into the GOOD side of life, whether you like it or not, cause that's just how I roll." -- The Lord, spoken to me many years ago.

No knowledge can be of more use to a young person than a
knowledge of himself; no study can be more valuable to him than a study
of himself. - WILLIAM HENRY PYLE PROFESSOR OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI; Human Nature, A psychology for Beginners

I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses. Every form of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he consumes all the poisons in him, and keeps only their quintessences. This is an unspeakable torture during which he needs all his faith and superhuman strength, and during which he becomes the great patient, the great criminal, the great accursed – and the great learned one! – among men. – For he arrives at the unknown! Because he has cultivated his own soul – which was rich to begin with – more than any other man! He reaches the unknown; and even if, crazed, he ends up by losing the understanding of his visions, at least he has seen them! Let him die charging through those unutterable, unnameable things: other horrible workers will come; they will begin from the horizons where he has succumbed! - Rimbaud, in a letter to Paul Demeny, 15th May 1871

Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice. We are all telling ourselves a story and that day mine changed. - Will Smith, playing Cypher Raige, After Earth

“Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.” Shannon Alder

“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

“Love...no such thing.

Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.

Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

“In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“I is another.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer; Illuminations; et autres textes

“Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Une saison en enfer; Illuminations; et autres textes

If the old imbeciles hadn’t discovered only the false significance of Self, we wouldn’t have to now sweep away those millions of skeletons which have been piling up the products of their one-eyed intellect since time immemorial, and claiming themselves to be their authors!”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“He would say, "How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms around your shoulders, nor my heart beneath you, nor this mouth on your eyes, because I will have to go away some day, far away..." And in that instant I could feel myself with him gone, dizzy with fear, sinking down into the most horrible blackness: into death.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“...these poets here, you see, they are not of this world:let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry, let them run, love and sing: they are as rich as Jacques Coeur, all these silly children, for they have their souls full of rhymes, rhymes which laugh and cry, which make us laugh or cry: Let them live: God blesses all the merciful: and the world blesses the poets.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“Is it in these bottomless nights that you sleep in exile?”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

"A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat

“It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“La vraie vie est absente. Nous ne sommes pas au monde.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“سعارُ اليأس يدفع بي في وجه كل شيء: الطبيعة، الأشياء، أنا نفسي، هذا كله الذي أريد أنا تمزيقه”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.”
― William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
― William Blake

“My mother groaned, my father wept,
into the dangerous world I leapt.”
― William Blake

“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”
― William Blake

“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.”
― William Blake

“How can the bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?”

“You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.”
― William Blake

"Never be angry when fools behave like fools. It's better when fools identify themselves. It removes so much uncertainty." - Orson Scott Card, Wyrms

"The king cares only for the good of the kings house. But the king's house is all the world." - Orson Scott Card, Wyrms

"If one cannot overlook a hurt, many hurts will grow from it. It is a fatal style of living." - Gottfried von Strassburg, Tristan

"Man was there with Woman, Woman there with Man~ What else should they be needing? They had what they were meant to have, they had reached the goal of their desire" (p. 262). - Gottfried von Strassburg, Tristan

[Fallon Coates]

Two parts from the same book, two pages apart:

"how often we mistake love for fireworks for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quite, very still. It's boring if seen from the perspective of drama."
p. 101

"Remember, love that doesn't include honesty doesn't deserve to be called love."
p. 103

The Silent Patient

[Mohamed Vajeeha]

"We are all family under one sky
We are a family under one sky"
I love this and i believe in that quote.