Thursday, February 17, 2011

Top 10 Favorite Quotes

Thursday's Top Ten: 2-17-10: What are your Top Ten favorite quotes?

OK, I tried. I really did. But I could only get my list down to 12. And I'm not sure what these say about me. Hmmmm....

In no particular order:


"She is a friend of my mind ... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order." ~ Toni Morrison

"Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." ~ Sarah Bernhardt

"Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?" ~ Shirdi Sai Baba, Indian Saint

"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie." ~ William Shakespeare

"Be willing to experience a little discomfort." ~ Richard Carlson

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew."
~ Saint Francis de Sales

"The saints are the sinners who keep on trying." ~ Robert Louis Stevenston

"The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal." ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Money often costs too much." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle

"Both figuratively and literally, we only have moments to live." ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world." ~ C.S. Lewis

2 comments:

scissorbill said...

Great quotes! It's good to have you back.

Kelsey said...

I LOVE number 6. That is my daily inspiration, reminder, and what I named my blog after.

Also number 9 I feel like screaming from the rooftops most days.

These are great, thanks.