What is your favorite quote?

United States
February 11, 2007 2:55pm CST
Do you have a quote that picks you up when you're down? Do you have a quote that you live your life to? Do you have a quote that easily came to you when you wanted to memorize it? I do! "ad astra per aspera" is my favorite quote. From Latin it translates to "starbound through tribulation" and it strikes home for me since my divorce - I _am_ starbound through tribulation.
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@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
11 Feb 07
I got this quote from an astrology website. Life is like riding a bicycle. If you stop riding it, you will fall. Everytime I encounter problems in life, I remember this saying and it helps me to keep going.
• United States
12 Feb 07
I really like that one as well!
• United States
11 Feb 07
Oooh, now I really like that one. It is so very true and makes absolute sense!
@babyjane (1390)
• Philippines
6 Mar 07
"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain." ~Leo Buscaglia~
• United States
6 Mar 07
Nice! Thank you!
@babyjane (1390)
• Philippines
3 Mar 07
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open; no gulf that enough love will not bridge; no wall that enough love will not throw down; no sin that enough love will not redeem... It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble; how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world... ~Emmet Fox~
• United States
6 Mar 07
I read this a few days ago and it made me cry. This morning, at my desk at work I cried again. I needed that. Thank you. "If only you could love enough, you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world."
@Bee1955 (3882)
• United States
13 Feb 07
cat and dog as friends - cat, dog
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." -- Mark Twain
• United States
20 Feb 07
I love Twain!
@dopey22girl (3319)
• United States
12 Feb 07
I really like that one. There are a few quotes that I like, but I haven't yet found one that really hits me. I really like the quote, What Doesn't kill us only makes us stronger. I'm going through some tough stuff right now. But I've gone through it before, and I think that I am handling it better this time around because of the fact that I have gone through it before. Hang in there through your divorce. You sound like a strong woman. I admire that.
• United States
20 Feb 07
I have been there, too. And while I absolutely agree that whatever doesn't kill us only makes us stronger, I have a hard time with that quote for some reason. I've been thinking about _why_ I can't totally accept it lately and have yet to come to a total conclusion on it. It's kinda annoying as a matter of fact!!
@loisse21 (214)
• Philippines
27 Feb 07
*carpe diem- seize the day *i may be born against my will or my better judgment but iam staying in this world as a matter of choice...
• United States
27 Feb 07
Oh how I _LOVE_ the last quote. The "I may be born against my will or better judgment"-part made me laugh!
@misskatonic (3723)
• United States
11 Feb 07
My all time favorite quote is: "Words destroy the functions of love". It was penned by Stephen King, that great wordsmith himself. I just really get behind the message - words are meaningless. Words impose human boundaries on things which shouldn't ever have boundaries. Words make something that's huge into something so very small and mortal. We shouldn't need words to express things like love - our actions should be enough.
• United States
11 Feb 07
I absolutely agree with you that actions should speak as our words instead of our actual words. I love words, however, and am glad that words connect people so much!
@babyjane (1390)
• Philippines
15 Mar 07
"I'll put together all the broken pieces together, maybe one day I'll be whole again." - Qiang Zheng
@urbandekay (18278)
8 Jul 07
Wisest is he, that knows he knows naught all the best urban
@blee92 (581)
• United States
12 Feb 07
life is for living not for waiting!
• United States
20 Feb 07
Life _is_ for living, not for sitting around letting it happen to you. That's so very right!
• United States
11 Feb 07
I love Life isnt measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breathe away I also like To have a friend, you have to be a friend and a true friend walks in, when the rest of the world walks out!
• United States
11 Feb 07
I like the last one you posted, especially. It's nice to see that other people connect to words as strongly as I do.