10:27 a.m. - August 22, 2003
Quotes Page
*Jules and Em both did this in their diary so being the copy-cat that I am, I decided I would too. This is just a small list of some of my favorite quotes.... I have a notebook full of them but these are my favorites*
"Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?"- Shirdi Sai Baba
"Sometimes your the winshield, sometime's your the bug"- Mark Knopfler
"Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like there's no one watching"- Rob Estes as "Jon Flemming"; 'Providence'
"Fear not but trust in PROVIDENCE wherever thou may'st be"- Thomas Haynes Bayly
"You win one day, you lose the next day, you don't take it personally. You get up and go on."- Hillary Rodham Clinton
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing it's best nice and day to make you everbody is else-means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting"- EE Cummings
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, define yourself"- Harvey Fierstein
"For every minute your are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness"
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go"- Dr. Seuss
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could, some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense"- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly"- Lanston Hughes
"Sometimes the best things happen when the master plan doesn't work"- Melina Kanakaredes as "Syd Hansen"; 'Providence'
"Come, gentle night, come loving, black browed night, give me my Romeo, and when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun"- Romeo & Juliet
"Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how"- Baz Lurhman
"Never under-estimate the power you have over men, and never let them know you have it!"- Vivi Joan Abott in the novel, Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood
"I'm busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kickin contest"- Dolly Parton
"Fear is that little dark room where negatives are developed"- Michael Pritchard
"Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours"- Baz Lurhman
Joanie: It's been so long, I don't know if I would know love if I saw it.
Syd: Sometimes it just sneaks up on you.
Joanie: Like how?
Syd: Like when the stupid things he does suddenly become completly irresistible, like when he yells at the TV during a sappy movie and it makes you laugh so hard your stomach hurts, or the thought of losing him makes you catch your breath.
Joanie: You got yourself one hell of a guy.
"The real troubles in your life are apt to be the ones that never crossed your mind"- Baz Lurhman
"Lead with your heart and don't hold back"- Melina Kanakaredes as "Syd Hansen"; 'Providence'
"Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes your ahead, sometimes your behind. The race is long and in the end, it's only with yourself"- Baz Luhman
"You don't just luck into things as much as you'd like you think you do. You build step by step whether it's friendship or oppurtunities"- Barbara Bush
"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides it's evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island....... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortuene; to keep him is a blessing"- Baltasar Gracian
"To accomplish great things, we must no only act but also dream, not only dream, but also believe"- Anatole France
Joanie: "Syd, Men and Women have been lying to each other since Eve told Adam he looked great in the fig leaf."- Paula Cale as "Joanie Hansen", Providence
Note: Most of these quotes were taken from the Chicken Soup For The Soul book series. Other's were taken from Jule's and Em's diary and the quotes by Baz Luhrman were taken from his song "Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen"
