Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Telenor wrote in another topic that he likes poetry, but cannot write his own poems. I found a quote that challenged that thought, and decided to start a new topic. In honor of Telenor Gėlės Dovana Taurė - may we someday read one of your poems. Cha cha

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

  • Vincent Van Gogh

2 liokajus and her wonderful optimism: Gėlės Gerai

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

  • Margaret Lee Runbeck

Thank you DarPo1. My problem is, that I can remember expressions and even long poems, but I can not remember their authors. If you don’t mind I’ll write one:
O god, award us with patience, that we could readjust ourselves to something, that we can not to change.
O god, award us with resolution, that we could change everything, that is possible to change.
O god, aword us with intelligense, that we could know what is possible to change or what is not.

Dear God: Give me patience, and give it to me now! Mirkt

Something wrong?

[quote]liokajus rašė:
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Oh, no! Your inspirational words reminded me of a cynical prayer… that I just wrote in humor.
Translated: Dieve, duok man kantrybes, ir duok man DABAR! Liežuvis Cha cha

When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.

  • Vietnamese saying

The purpose of life is not to be happy. The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

  • Arthur H. Prince

Thank you DarPo1! Gėlės

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing – that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

If I shoot you I’m famous…If you shoot me your brainless…

[quote]^DMX^ rašė:
If I shoot you I’m famous…If you shoot me your brainless…
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Actually, ^DMX^, Jay-Z’s quote from the song "Streets Is Watching," is:
"Look, if I shoot you, I’m brainless,
But if you shoot me, then you’re famous."

The greater part of our happiness depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

  • Martha Washington

life is a bit*ch. then you marry one.

just a proverb

My mind is a garden. My thoughts are the seeds. My harvest will be either flower or weeds.

  • Mel Weldon

darpo1, nesimiega?Cha cha

Lives based on having are less free than lives based on doing or being.

  • E.Y. Harburg

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darpo1, nesimiega?Cha cha
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Jet-lagged… It’s almost 4:00 AM. Time for breakfast. Liežuvis