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HeyThereLittleBear

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You can learn a lot about people by the quotes that touch their hearts. I'd love to learn small pieces of all of you. Share your favorite quote and why it means so much to you.


Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, it is not the end.


I used to look at this quote daily as part of decorations my mother had in our house. I can't identify quite why it's so special to me other than the fact it is the perfect quote of hope and soft optimism that my mother has. I now own the decoration and I read it to myself in my worst moments
 
This is from Kris Allen's song, 'Gotta Live Like We're Dying' and the quote goes:

"We've only got 86,400 seconds in a day to turn it all around or to throw it all away." This quote resonates on a personal level because I heard the song literally just minutes after losing someone dear to me. Since then, I keep those words in mind and in heart because every second indeed counts and we don't know which day's our last.

Another one is "You are where you're meant to be." I think I saw this somewhere on Tumblr, about how some people were in situations they weren't usually at only to find out they could've been in something much worse. For example, there's this guy who ranted about traffic in New York and how he was late and all that. He worked at what was once the World Trade Center and the traffic was due to the terrorist attack. If he arrived on time, he could have been part of the whole tragedy.

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This is gonna be a beautiful thread. Can't wait to see the quotes posted here. :) Also, the "Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, it is not the end." quote gives me a little boost of optimism too, on dark days.
 
Wow, what beautiful quotes. Thank you for sharing them! :heart:
 
Mine is from a photo I used to keep in my room.

Quickly notes to self needs to ask parents if they may know where it is before continuing

It had a bow and arrow set, with one arrow flying towards the sky. The quote in question was:

"It's better to try and fail than not to try at all."
 
I have a lot of quotes I live by.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
I had that in my signature for a while here on BMR. It speaks to me in ways I cannot even find the words to describe it.

You got to have the bad days so you appreciate the good ones more.
I became an orphan at age 20. I had a hard time living with myself after losing my parents. Lost, afraid, scared, suicidal. I went through three counselors and two different types of antidepressants that, honestly, didn't help. My fiance made those very few days that were good make life easier, better than any counselor or pill could. I take those good days for granted, and even though my wounds will not heal after losing my parents, I know that they wouldn't want me to be so sad all of the time. This is the quote I love and live by on a day-to-day basis.

If I walk behind you, I may not follow. If you walk behind me, I may not lead. But walk beside me and I will be your friend.
I consider myself a very friendly and open person, always searching for new friends and connections. This speaks great volumes to me.
 
"Wednesdays, we drain the blood of virgin chickens. On Thursday, we anoint ourselves in said blood. Friday is, of course, Poker night."
 
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Read this in elementary school. I always think about it when I need to put things into perspective.

I am small. My problems are even smaller.
 
newblood said:
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Read this in elementary school. I always think about it when I need to put things into perspective.

I am small. My problems are even smaller.


That's awesome...

-Feels small and insignificant-
 
At the risk of sounding insanely privileged:
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." - Milton Berle
 
"Virtue, then, being of two kinds, intellectual and moral, intellectual virtue in the main owes both its birth and its growth to teaching (for which reason it requires experience and time), while moral virtue comes about as a result of habit, whence also its name (ethike) is one that is formed by a slight variation from the word ethos (habit). From this it is also plain that none of the moral virtues arises in us by nature; for nothing that exists by nature can form a habit contrary to its nature. For instance the stone which by nature moves downwards cannot be habituated to move upwards, not even if one tries to train it by throwing it up tenthousand times; nor can fire be habituated to move downwards, nor can anything else that by nature behaves in one way be trained to behave in another. Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit. 

Again, of all the things that come to us by nature we first acquire the potentiality and later exhibit the activity (this is plain in the case of the senses; for it was not by often seeing or often hearing that we got these senses, but on the contrary we had them before we used them, and did not come to have them by using them); but the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well.For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. 

This is confirmed by what happens in states; for legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is inthis that a good constitution differs from a bad one. Again, it is from the same causes and by the same means that every virtue is both produced and destroyed, and similarly every art; for it is from playing the lyre that both good and bad lyre-players are produced. And the corresponding statement is true of builders and of all the rest; men will be good or bad builders as a result of building well or badly. For if this were not so, there would have been no need of a teacher, but all men would have been born good or bad at their craft. This, then, is the case with the virtues also; by doing the acts that we do in our transactions with other men we become just or unjust, and by doing the acts that we do in the presence of danger, and being habituated to feel fear or confidence, we become brave or cowardly. The same is true of appetites and feelings of anger; some men become temperate and good-tempered, others self-indulgent and irascible, by behaving in one way or the other in the appropriate circumstances.Thus, in one word, states of character arise out of like activities. This is why the activities we exhibit must be of a certain kind; it is because the states of character correspond to the differences between these. It makes no small difference, then, whether we form habits of one kind or of another from our very youth; it makes a very great difference, or rather all the difference."

- Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle

It's a novel I know haha! But that has done more to shape me than almost anything else I've ever read. If what I repeatedly do becomes who I am, then what I do matters.
 
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