Impressive Quotes / Frases Impactantes

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Permalink Reply by Eblis on June 12, 2009 at 6:59am

It is fantastic indeed! Thank you so much! I'm still laughing! :D And it's so true LMAO! It happens to me everyday, when I look in the mirror, I see Brad Pitt! LOL Maybe not that much, but it is indeed very funny how one always perceive oneself a little (or a lot, it depends) different from what one really is in the outside... It's not unusual and it happens a lot with our voices too... That's why watching a video of you can be quite a shock! Because many times, if not all the times, we watch our lives from inside!

By the way, I loved the Dhammapada quote.

Thank you & TGIF!!!!!!!!!
BB & MP for now, E.

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Permalink Reply by Eblis on June 12, 2009 at 8:39am

Quotations about Light to make Personal Reflections Today

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

~ Maurice Freehill



Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

~ Chinese Proverb



There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.

~ James Thurber

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Permalink Reply by Firelake on June 12, 2009 at 9:04am

I love this one and I cant remember where I found it, or who wrote it:

I have already been given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see.
I fear nothing, so I will remember myself.
Truth is love. Truth is one.
Truth is beyond language, words and symbols.

and this one surprised me, because of who wrote it.
"Magic is like nature itself, & success in magic requires working in harmony with nature, not against it." ~Anton Lavey~

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Permalink Reply by Eblis on June 15, 2009 at 6:40am

"Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers".

~ Bruce Dickinson, British rock guitarist. On June 15, 1967, more than 50,000 fans attended the first rock music festival in Monterey, California.



"Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today".

~ Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, in a speech in Bonn in 1981. On June 16, 1977, the Supreme Soviet elected Brezhnev to the post of Soviet head of state, to replace Nikolai Podgorny.



"I did not clash with the National Party, I clashed with my conscience. And in the end, conscience wins".

~ South African politician Wynand Malan on resigning from the party because of its continued support of apartheid. On June 17, 1991, South Africa's white-dominated parliament voted to end race classification, the legal foundation of apartheid since 1950.



"I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life -- ever".

~ U.S. President Bill Clinton, defending his wife in the Whitewater scandal. On June 18, 1996, the U.S. Senate's Whitewater Committee issued a scathing final report accusing Bill and Hillary Clinton of a wide range of questionable conduct.



"Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry".

~ William Golding, British author and Nobel laureate. Best known for his novel "Lord of the Flies", Golding died on June 19, 1993.



"The third man in the ring makes boxing possible".

-- Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist, on the introduction of referees in boxing in late 19th century. On June 20, 1960, American Floyd Patterson became the first boxer to win the world championship twice.

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Permalink Reply by Athame on June 16, 2009 at 4:51pm

Fortune is glass; just when it gleams brightest it shatters.

Syrus, Maxims

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Permalink Reply by REV. ANDREA AVILA on June 18, 2009 at 2:48am

I WOULD LIKE TO STAR SHARING WITH THESE CHEROKEE WISDOM...

"WHEN YOU WERE BORN -YOU CRIED -
AND THE WORLD REJOICED-
THEN LIVE YOUR LIFE IN SUCH A WAY
THAT WHEN YOU DIE- NOTHING IS REMISS
AND -THE WORLD WILL CRY-
WHILE YOU FEEL BLISS"

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Permalink Reply by Eblis on June 22, 2009 at 12:32pm

June 22, year of...

1969 - The American film actress and singer Judy Garland died; she is famed for her roles in "The Wizard of Oz", "Meet Me in St Louis" and "A Star is Born".

2006 - Pluto's two newly discovered moons got official astronomical names of Nix and Hydra.

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else".

~ Judy Garland, U.S. film actress and singer.

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Permalink Reply by Toni Rae on June 23, 2009 at 3:01pm

A personal favorite....
"Tolerance does not imply a lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution others" -John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Permalink Reply by Stephanie on March 27, 2010 at 11:38pm

-Be you. Do what you do. -Dr. Pepper

-To thine own self be true. -William Shakespeare

-To be or not to be? That is the question. -William Shakespeare-Hamlet

-Have you ever started a path? No one seems willing to do this. We don't mind using existing paths, but we rarely start new ones. Do it today. Start a path. Even if it doesn't lead anywhere. -George Carlin-Napalm and Silly Putty

-There is no "I can't" in a musician’s vocabulary. Only "I can" and "I will". -Ms. Coy and me

-Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. -William Shakespeare-A Midsummer Night's Dream

-Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence. –Robert Frost
-I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. –Helen Keller
-The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation after generation. –Pearl S. Buck

-May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself. -from the blog of Neil Gaiman

-Everything goes, everything returns; eternally rolls on the wheel of existence. Everything dies, everything blossoms forth again; eternally runs on the year of existence. Everything breaks; everything is integrated anew; eternally builds itself the same house of existence. All things separate, all things again greet one another; eternally true to itself remains the ring of existence. Every moment begins existence, around every 'here' rolls the ball 'there.' The middle is everywhere. Crooked is the path of eternity. – from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

-If you don’t want karma to smack you in the face, watch where you point your finger. –Unknown

-Music comes closest to meditation. Music is a way towards meditation
and the most beautiful way. Meditation is the art of hearing the soundless sound,
the art of hearing the music of silence. –Osho

-Stuff your pizza crust, not your feelings. –Jason Gonzalez (best theater professor EVER)

-One who knows nothing can understand nothing. –from “Kingdom Hearts”
-No matter how deep the darkness, a light shines within. –from “Kingdom Hearts”
-At the end of the day, if we don’t hang together we’ll die alone. –Horatio-“CSI: Miami”
-When you can’t run, you crawl; when you can’t crawl, you find somebody to carry you. –Mal-“Firefly”
-When you cannot joke about the darkness of life, that’s when the darkness takes over. –Amanda Palmer
-Don’t argue with destiny; it will kick your ass. –Seymour-“Burn Notice”
-Dying’s easy, living’s hard!! –Wilson-“House”
-Death and life are in the Power of the tongue and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. -Proverbs 18:21
-Only music and love last forever. –Robert Englund-“Phantom of the Opera (1984)”
-You will be known by the tracks you leave behind. –Lakota proverb
-At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation? –from Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
-I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it. –Neil Gaiman
-Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us, When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. –from The Zahir by Paulo Coelho
-Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them. –from My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
- If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweler's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does. - Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated: A Novel
- I didn’t plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of us could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that happened only once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory...-from The Notebook
-Music is like a bad lover. You'll end up giving up your family, your friends, your free time, your life. In return, music will give you very little. But, with music, every little moment, those are worth it. -Chía Patiño
-Such nights are possible, and we survive them. It is the matter of sleeping next to the adored body you no longer have the right or inclination to love. Whether you are the one who casts off, or the castoff yourself; whether your arms are the recoilers, or the ones that reach wantingly, then pull back, remembering they are no longer wanted. –from Pages for You by Sylvia Brownrigg
-The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. –Buddha
-Love is. It just is and nothing you can say can make it go away because it is the point of why we are here; it is the highest point and once you’re up there, looking down on everyone else, you’re there forever. Because if you move, right, you fall. You fall. –Paulie- Lost and Delirious
-To be able to truly love someone you have to understand every word they are NOT saying. –April Seiber
-High school is like a spork: a crappy spoon, a crappy fork, so in the end it’s just plain useless. –Christy
-A heart that loves is always young. –Greek proverb
-A smile is a curve that makes everything straight. –Anonymous
-We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? –Marianne Williamson
-Live for today; look forward to tomorrow and don’t forget to smile. –Unknown
-Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. –Confucius
-If music be the food of love, play on. –William Shakespeare
-Music is the shorthand of emotion. –Leo Tolstoy
-Music is an outburst of the soul. –Frederick Delius
-You can’t type what a lesbian is. We’re anything and everything. The one thing in common is that we make love to other women. So give up trying to limit us. –Amanda Bearse
-The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. –St. Jerome (374-419)

-Each heart has a melody; it’s up to us how to explore it. –Me

-A man’s character is his fate. –Heraclitus
-Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret; it's you or me, amplified. -Winona Ryder as Susanna-Girl, Interrupted

-If you ain’t laughin’, you ain’t livin’! –Carlos Mencia

-Lovers alone wear sunlight. –E.E. Cummings
-True love is when you can’t sleep because your reality is better than your dreams. –Dr. Seuss
-Live your life fully– love, laugh, and cry with all your heart, life doesn’t last forever. –Annette Olzon- Vocalist of Nightwish

-Tomorrow and yesterday are equally far away: Carpe Diem. –Tuomas Holopainen-Founder and keyboardist of Nightwish

-Every day could be the last. –Empuu Vuorinen-Lead guitar of Nightwish

-Take a music bath once or twice a week, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. –Oliver Wendell Holmes

-I think I should have what no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. –George Eliot
-I didn’t ask you to judge me; I asked you to love me. –Kait
-Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. –Unknown

-When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have. –Unknown

-Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. –Unknown

-I’ve never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down. –Unknown
-Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. –Alfred, Lord Tennyson

-But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not--and to know not is to care not for. –Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897)

-I wish I was 8 years old again because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. –Unknown

-A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. –Unknown

-Without music, life would be a mistake. -Unknown

-If a composer could say what he had to say in words, he would not bother trying to say it in music. –Unknown

-If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud. –Unknown

-The heart and soul of every performer is fueled by the desire to take the emotion out of the crowd and replace it with the fury in the best performance of their life. –Unknown

-If you’re gonna hit ‘em, hit ‘em hard, and if it’s the band director, hit ‘em harder. –Unknown

-Breathe in the music and breathe out your performance. –Unknown
-Be kind to unkind people. They probably need it the most. –Ashleigh Brilliant
-Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. –Oscar Wilde
-Reality bites with a variety of sizes of teeth. –Tony Follari

-The best antiques are old friends. –Unknown

-Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. –Confucius
-I’m more of a man than you’ll ever be, and more of a woman than you’ll ever get. –Angel from RENT
-When’ life’s coming at you with a bat, you duck; when it’s a tidal wave, you either learn to swim or find a floatie. But when life tries to tear you in two, all you can do is let it and sew yourself back together because, if you fight it, you’ll hold onto it (pain). –April

-Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. –Unknown
-Do not regret things that once made you smile. –Ann

-Forget regret or life is yours to miss. –from RENT
-The kiss is the passionate desire of one soul to cling to another. At the break of each and every kiss, the soul plants an eternal essence of that person deep within the memory of your heart. And you possess a tiny part of that person’s soul…forever. –Anonymous
-I don’t cause commotion, I am one. –Elphaba- Wicked
-Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. –Sir Thomas Beecham

-Music should strike fire from the heart of a man and bring tears from the eyes of woman. –Ludwig von Beethoven

-A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate; it goes on to become. –W.H. Auden

-Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever. –Sara-The Crow
-Music is only love looking for words. –Lawrence Durrell

-Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. –Berthold Auerbach

-Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. –Leonard Bernstein

-Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. –John Keats

-If you can't love someone for who they really are, why bother? It's like falling in love with a ghost, you try to change the person into your knight in shining armor rather than accept them in their leather jerkin and rusted helm. The truth is there are no knights on white horses galloping in to save you, just people with real hearts and minds. Stop wishing for a fantasy and open your eyes: the right person is probably right in front of you. –Me
-When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth. –Billy, age 4

-Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired. –Terri, age 4

-You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. –Jessica, age 8
-I think, if you announce what you see, then nobody can say no. –Gertrude Stein-The Geographical History of America
-True love will never leave you. It will always be there; a lingering stain on your soul that can never be wiped away. –Kendra
-We’re all in a freak show man! It’s called life! –Foamy-Dubbed In English
-May your days be bright and your contact with stupidity limited. –Foamy-Foamy Fan Mail IX
-One who cries out, sings and dreams within us all. –from Quidam by Cirque Du Soleil
-Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt. -Special Olympics Oath
-Know your limits but never accept them. -Anonymous

-It is difficult to know what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

-Best friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere. -Anonymous

-Count your smiles instead of your tears; Count your courage instead of your fears. -Anonymous

-A true friend is someone who says nice things behind your back. -Anonymous

-We really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us. -Anonymous
-If you don't like how things are, change! You're not a tree. -Jim Rohn

-Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. -Anonymous

-You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel. -Anonymous

-There is an old illusion-it is called good and evil. -Friedrich Nietzche

-Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -Albert Einstein

-X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. -Albert Einstein

-Everyone has inside him a piece of good news. The good news is you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is. -Anne Frank
-How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. -Elizabeth Barret Browning
-Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. -Oscar Wilde

-No man is rich enough to buy back his past. -Oscar Wilde

-I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out. -Elizabeth Barret Browning
-We are who we pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut
-Don't waste your time, live your dreams. -Thomas Caser-Drummer of VOA

-Be a rebel at heart. -Miro Holly-Synth. player of VOA

-Do what you want to do. It's your life and you only have one. -Mario Plank-Vocalist of VOA

-Life is too short, so have fun while you're here!! -Melissa Ferlaak-Lead vocalist of VOA
-I don't fall in love with people, I fall in love with souls. I don't think souls have a gender. -Anna Machy
-You wanna rock? You gotta break the rules! -Jack Black-School of Rock

-Are you a master of your destiny or a slave to your fear? -Keira Knightley-Princess of Thieves

-Love is life, and if you miss love, you miss life. -Leo Buscaglia
-Love doesn't wait for circumstances to change. It just happens. -Brianne
-Try not to fit other people's images of what you should be. I think the most important thing is just to be who you are and not worry about what other people think. It's more stress than it's worth. -Gillian-Free Your Mind

-If we don't care for each other who will? -Edward Elric-Full Metal Alchemist
-And the day came when the risk it took to remain closed in a bud became more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -Anais Nin

-The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. -Rita Mae Brown
-Wit is educated insolence. -Aristotle

-Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders. -Nietzche

-The piece is only as good as its weakest dancer. -Anonymous

-The bigot's mind is like the pupil of an eye; the more light that is shed upon it, the more it contracts. -Unknown
-Overcome the devils with a thing called love. -Bob Marley

-He taught me housekeeping. When we divorce, I keep the house. -ZsaZsa Gabor

-We are strong, heartache to heartache we stand. No promises, no demands. Love is a battlefield. -Pat Benetar

-How happy is the blameless vestal's lot, the world forgetting by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Each prayer accepted, each wish resigned. -Alexander Pope

-Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe. -Albert Einstein

-Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember: It didn't work for the rabbit. -R.E. Shay
-The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality. -Toni Cade Bambara

-Image creates desire. You will what you imagine. -J.G. Gallimore

-Live out of your imagination, not your history. -Stephen Covey

-When I dream, I am ageless. -Elizabeth Coatsworth

-I'll do my dreaming with eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed. -Tony Arata

-Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. -Belva Davis

-My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed--my dearest pleasure when free. -Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

-The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake. -Leonardo da Vinci

-To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. -Anatole France

-Dreams are the touchstones of our character. -Henry David Thoreau

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