Katie's Favorite Quotes:

Hey! I have created a new page! Yea! Well, there has been a myriad of talented writers, philosophers, publicists, and extaordinary people out there who have come up with original, tasteful, powerful, thoughtful, and meaningful things to say. Notice the tone throughout each quote mentioned, and try to discover the meaning of each one. I know that in times of chagrin and despair, these simple lines of diction can lift your spirits to the sky! So, try to appreciate them! I stand in awe at the capabilities and potential the following people had in interpreting the meaning of life. I have recently came across the most interesting topic I have ever studied in my education, TRANSCENDENTALISM!!! You know- Thoreau, Whitman, Emerson..... Now not all of these quotes are from the Transcendentalists, mind you, but all of them are worthy of your time. You must at least read over these AMAZING passages... Enjoy!

"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and to see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.....I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life." -Henry David Thoreau (passage from "Walden")

"We don't read and write poetry because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, Law, Business and Engineering are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But Poetry....Beauty, Romance, Love...these are what we stay alive for! -John Keating

"To laugh often and much, to find the best in others, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, That is to have succeeded." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are always getting ready to live, but never living." -Emerson

"Hitch your wagon to a star." -Emerson

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book." -Emerson

"The honorary duty of a human being is to love, I am human, and nothing human can be alien to me." -Maya Angelou

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it." -Ferris Buehller from "Ferris Buehller's Day Off"

"Never say never to me." -Ruth from my favorite movie, "Fried Green Tomatoes"

"'Twanda!" -Idgie, Fried Green Tomatoes of course

"Only in their dreams can most men truly be happy." -Anonymous, but among the great Transcendentalists

"Oh me! Oh life of the questions of these recurring: Of the Endless trains of the Faithless; Of Cities filled with the Foolish! What good amid these, Oh Me, Oh Life?" -Walt Whitman

"Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are---One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." -Alfred from "Ulyssess"

"We need art to live fully and to grow healthily. Without art, we are dry husks drifting aimlessly on every ill wind; our fortunes are without promise and our present without grace." -Maya Angelou

"Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows one to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style." -Maya Angelou

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." -Ann Landers

"We get to make a living; we give to make a life." -Winston Churchill

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." -George Bernard Shaw

"We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God." -Maya Angelou

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner." -unknown

"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us." -Alexander Graham Bell

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to." -Kahlil Gibran

"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." -Opening scene of "Faust"

"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth." -Shira Tehrani

"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." -Confucius

"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Live simply so that others may simply live." -Gandhi

"I believe the most important single thing, beyond disclipine and creativity in any artistic work, is daring to dare!" -Maya Angelou (of course) :)

"Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance." -Maya Angelou

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt

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

"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden." -Johann von Goethe

Some funny quotes for you........

"Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind. " -Jack Handy

"I saw on this nature show how the male elk douses himself with urine to smell sweeter to the opposite sex. What a coincidence!" -Jack Handy

"Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife besides the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you." -Jack Handy

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