Angiebabe's
Collection of Ideas
This is my idea collection. It's a collection of what some would call quotes, but I call ideas, emotions, these are the things I believe in. They help describe who I am, they inspire me.
I come and wallow here when I need a little inspiration, when I need some comfort, and just because.
I may not have thought up these few well put words, but I wish I did. I guess you could say they are my life philosophy.
Take the time to read them, and perhaps you will find a jewel or two to add to your own heart.
Disclamer: I cannot verify any of these quotes nor their sources.
Love
More On Love
-- Now to begin in the beginning would seem appropriate.
Love is the beginning of all things, well so goes my philosophy.
I love you now, and I'll love you forever; nothing but love and no
goodbyes
-From the movie A Perfect Storm
I have learnt not to worry about love but to honor its coming with
all my heart.
Alice Walker
"Love" is that condition in which the happiness
of another person is essential to your own.
Jubal in _Stranger in a Strange Land_
by Robert A Heinlein
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive?
Love is everything it's cracked up to be.
That's why people are so cynical about it.
It really is worth fighting for,
Being brave for,
Risking everything for.
And the trouble is,
If you don't risk anything,
You risk even more.
-Erica Jong
The love you seek is seeking you at this moment.
Deepak Chopra
Sometimes the perfect person for you is the one you least expect.
Unknown Author
Give love like your pet does. Unconditionally and without questions.
Unknown
It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice.
This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of
romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires
no more than to accept it. This theory believes that love is a magical
force which frees us from all suffering and solves every problem, that
it is an end unto itself. To a limited extent, there may be some truths
to each of these beliefs, but having the capacity to love is not the same
as having the ability to love.
-Leo Buscaglia
Love-
It is not a word, nor a single action.
In truth, it can never be wrong
Like the sunrise, perfect in every possible way.
It is many things and yet it must exist
In the small space of the heart.
Once found it can bloom endlessly, with no cease.
It can choke one's throat, bring one to tears...
But it never hides in shadows or in darkness
It never feeds itself on deception.
It grows with trust, honesty and compassion.
Nothing less, always more.
-Sylvia "Minna" P.
Love is not what we become but who we already are.
-Stephen Levine
I didn't love her because it was right; I just loved her.
--- Horse Whisperer, movie dialog
I do believe the lord above
Created you for me to love.
He picked you out from all the rest
Because he knew I'd love you the best.
I once had a heart and it was true,
But now it's gone from me to you.
Take care of it as I have done
For you have two and I have none.
If I go to heaven and you're not there,
I'll wait for you upon a golden stair.
If you're not there by judgement day,
I'll know you went the other way.
I'll give back my angel wings,
My golden heart,
My everything
To prove to you my love is true-
I'd go to hell to be with you.
-unknown
I need love.
I need the thing that happens
When your brain shuts off
And your heart turns on.
-Elizabeth Wurtzel
Does God punish or reward us with love?
-Christopher Litzenberger
When you love someone,
All your saved-up wishes start coming out.
- Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)
More Love Quotes <-- this is my favorite part
Some Love Poetry
Promise
Loneliness
I spent last night dreaming of your eyes,
But your hair kept getting in the way.
Your lips dropped in to tell me how you'd been,
But when I tried to kiss them,
My pillow told me I'd missed them.
Your voice dropped by and sang a lullaby,
And it was then I knew just what to do.
I'd fall asleep and then,
I'd dream of you again.
-I'll Dream of You Again, a song by Harry Connick Jr.
For we lose not only by death,
But also by leaving and being left,
By changing and letting go and moving on.
Judith Viorst
There may be other fish in the sea, but none of them are like you .
-Garet Carter
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
-William Shakespeare
Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an illusion.
-Javan
How wonderful it is to have something so good that makes saying goodbye so hard.
-unknown
The positive side to feeling empty is that you can fill it with anything
-Groucho Marx
"Relationships are hard. It's like a full-time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks notice. There should be severance pay, and before they leave you, they should find you a temp."
- Bob Ettinger
"I won't be held responsible, she fell in love in the first place..."
- The Verve Pipe
"Threads that are golden don't break easily."
- Tori Amos
"I won't deny the pain, I won't deny the change, and should I fall from grace here with you, will you leave me too?"
- The Smashing Pumpkins
"All I need is, Someone to talk to about you, But you are the only person, I can really talk to."
-- Trapped, A Poem in How to Survive the Loss of a Love
More on the Lonely Theme
Hope and Determination
Our problem is not lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing.
-Mark Hatfield
The potential for changing the future can lie only in the present.
Gillian Butler, Ph.D. and Tony Hope, M.D.
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"courage doesn't always roar. sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'"
~mary anne radmacher-hershey
If you help others you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt... It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
-Gurdjieff
"It's like switching your point of view. Things sometimes look complicated from one angle, but simple from another."
--Achilles to the Tortoise, Gödel, Escher, Bach
"All it takes to fly is to hurl yourself at the ground... and miss."
--Douglas Adams
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
-- Anonymous
"All profoundly original work looks ugly at first"
- Clement Greenburg
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
-George Bernard Shaw
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
-Plato
No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors, and make success impossible.
-Charles Baudouin
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
-Scotish Proverb
Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.
The Midrash
It is good to have an end to journey toward;
but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Source Unknown
[about the past]
...the way I see it,
you can either run from it,
or learn from it.
Rafikki to Simba in Disney's The Lion King
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
-Charles Dickens
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
I get this feeling we'll be together again. No straight lines make up my life, all roads have bends. No clear cut beginning and so far no dead ends.
-Harry Chapin from All My Life's a Circle
We don't have much money to do this so we're going to have to think.
-Ernest Rutherford
Only dead fish swim with the current.
- unknown
Even if you fall on your face you are still moving forward.
- Gallagher
Use what talents you possess:
The woods would be very silent
If no bird sang there
Except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
"If your waiting for the tooth fairy to come... first you gotta lose a few teeth."
- unknown
"Everyday someone does something that couldn't be done."
- Anonymous
"It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left."
- Hubert Humphrey
You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself an direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
And you are the one who'll decide where to go.
- Dr Suess
"Things that go away by themselves can come back by themselves."
- Anonymous
"What is meant to be will always find a way."
- Trisha Yearwood
"Destroy the mind - destroy the body - but you cannot destroy the heart..."
- The Smashing Pumpkins
"It's hard to face tomorrow, but it's easier than facing no tomorrow."
-Unknown source
Happiness
When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.
--Beverly Sills
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
-Charles Kingsley
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
"No man is happy who does not think himself so."
-Publiliussyrus
"Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination."
- Roy M. Goodman
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
Education
For every complex problem, there is
a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
-H. L. Mencken
The only possible conclusion that social sciences can draw is:
some do, some don't.
-- Ernest Rutherford
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in
knowledge always pays the best interest. If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people. "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
-Benjamin Franklin
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's
being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
-Anatole France
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
-Elbert Hubbard
The greatest tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
-Aldous Huxley
On Relationships
Of what does a true kiss consist?
Ambrosia on which gods subsist,
Tremendous heat which sun can't give,
God's heaven in one moment lived...
From "Composition Of A Kiss" by Abelardo Subido
Sex that is not an evidence of a strong human tie is just like blowing your
nose; it's not a celebration of a splendid relationship
-Roberston Davies
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone
--but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Walter Anderson
Do you see her face?
Girls like that are born with a boyfriend.
Beautiful Girls(movie)
A friend is a person who knows all about you--and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to
sleep after."
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Sometimes in my life, for no reason at all, I need you.
--Labryinth
I think-therefore I'm single.
-Lizz Winstead
No love, no friendship can cross our path without leaving some mark forever
-unknown
Girls grow up to be women, boys just get older.
-psychologist David Factor
Relationships -of all kinds- are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the
sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the
sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A
relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely
to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.
-Kaleel Jamison
People change and forget to tell each other.
-Lillian Hellman
People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick
How effortless it is to think of interesting things when you are with someone who doesn't expect
you to do or say anything
- Suzan Swan
I'm honest because, with you, I think it's the best way to get results.
-Cary Grant
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
-unknown
"Life without a friend is death without a witness."
- Spanish Proverb
"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you're lost a friend."
-Anonymous
"When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting."
- Jean Renoir
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
- Len Wein
"One friend in time must lose the other."
- Samuel Johnson
"Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come."
-Chinese proverb
"In life, we barely have time to react,
let alone rehearse,
I don't think I'm better than you,
but I don't think I'm worse,
and I don't blame you,
but I don't want to be your friend"
- Ani DiFranco
"We never forgot it as confusing as it was..."
- Alanis Morisette
"Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never."
- Charles Caleb Colton
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for awhile and leave footprints on
our hearts and we are never, ever the same."
- Unknown
On Life
Look at every situation as if you were in the future
and you were looking back on it.
General Peter Schoomaker
Sex is hereditary.
If your parents never had it,
Chances are you won't either.
Joseph Fischer
Possession of material riches, without inner peace,
is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake.
Paramahansa Yogananda
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of
discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is
discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
Jim Rohn
There are only two or three human stories, and they go
on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never
happened before.
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
What concerns me is not the way things are, but
rather the way people think things are.
Epicetus
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Abigail Van Buren
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and
wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely
to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every
decade worth looking forward to.
Greg Anderson
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain
that sustain life, not the top.
-Robert M. Pirsing
In the long run we are all extinct.
-Richard Brewer
"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might aswell dance."
-Japanese proverb
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
- Navaho saying
"The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because
she knows that the average man can see much better than he can think."
- unknown
On earth, an angel's wings are inside.
-unknown
My life has been the poem I would have writ, but I could not both live and utter it.
- Henry David Thoureau
I finally figured the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
-Rita Mae Brown
Life is like paying a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- Samuel Butler
It's not about fitting in, it's about carrying on.
-unknown
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
-James Matthew Barrie
Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
-Henry Wheeler Shaw
Life is like mail - sometimes you just don't get it!
-anonymous
"It's just opposite to the way we feel it should work."
-Miss Bode
On Herself
So never try to manage time. It will beat you at
every turn. Never try to plan your days and nights
minute by minute. Do schedule your time, but never
schedule 100 percent of it. You'll kill your creative
impulse if you do. Never try to organize every minute
of your time weeks in advance, or you'll be bored to
death. Instead, let time renew itself around you. Let
it divert you. Let it do something unexpected,
something new. Let it bring nice things, and let it
bring bad things over which you have no control. And
don't try to use personal tricks to fool time. It will
always catch up with you.
Nicolas Hayek
Positive thoughts (joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement,
worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm, calm, well-being,
ease, energy, love). Negative thoughts (judgement, unworthiness,
mistrust, resentment, fear) produce negative results (tension,
anxiety, alienation, anger, fatigue).
Peter McWilliams
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1864)
I expect to pass through this world but once, therefore any good that I can
do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it
now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not come this way again.
-Stephen Grellett 1773-1855
Like many other much-loved humans, they mistakenly believed that
they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.
-Dodie Smith
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should
look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or
four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary about that person.
-P. J. O'Rourke
After a while you learn
the subtle differences between
holding a hand and chaining a soul
and you learn
that love doesn't mean leaning
and company doesn't always mean security.
And you begin to learn
that kisses aren't contracts
and presents aren't promises
and you begin to accept your defeats
with your head up and your eyes ahead
with the grace of a woman,
not the grief of a child
and you learn
to build all your roads on today
because tomorrow's ground is
too uncertain for plans
and futures have a way
of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn
that even sunshine burns
if you get too much
so you plant your own garden
and you decorate your own soul
instead of waiting for someone
to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure
you really are strong
you really do have worth
and you learn
and you learn
with every goodbye, you learn...
- From After A While, a poem by Veronica A. Shoffstall
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly
making exciting discoveries.
-- A. A. Milne
"One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed.
For no one can lay a hand on our dreams."
-- E. V. Lucas
"You keep saying how this is wrong, and maybe tonight it is.
But just to set the record straight... I'm a firm believer that
sometimes it's right to do the wrong thing."
-- Pacey (from Dawson's Creek)
Character is defined by what we are willing to do when the spotlight has been turned off, when
the applause has died down, and no one is around to give us credit.
-unknown
- Virginia Woolf
When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard,
if my thoughts drift to far off matters for some part of the time, for some other part I lead them
back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of the solitude, to myself.
-Mary
Everyone is a fool in someone's opinion.
-Spanish Proverb
A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.
-American Proverb
The trouble is sex is a force of nature and reason is not.
-unknown
Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. "Nothing" is the worst thing that can
happen to us!"
-Richard Bach
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
One can collect only a few,
and they are more beautiful if they are few.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Tears spill out, only because I feel so much, it can't all fit inside.
-Kelly from House of Beats
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Anonymous
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
James Dean
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
- Albert Einstein
He that is good for making excuses, is seldom good for anything else
Benjamin Franklin
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you
criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes
-Groucho Max
A stupid boy is usually between the ages of 12 to 22 but older boys can be stupid too.
-Suzan Swan
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
I sometimes resist temptation, but never mischief.
-Joyce-Rebeta-Burditt
I am not what I think I am or what you think I am but I am what I think you think I am.
-unknown
How do I know what I think until I see what I write?
-unknown
You're braver than you believe, and stranger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
-Christopher Robin
"Some see the glass as half empty;
some see the glass as half full.
I see the glass as too big."
-George Carlin
"If you always do what you always do, you'll always get what you've always got."
- Ellen
"The best bridge between hope and despair is often a good night's sleep."
- Unknown
"The old get older, the young get stronger..."
- The Doors
"Advice is what we ask for when we know the answer but wish we didn't."
- Erica Jong
-- Mark Twain
"I don't need your hate, I decide my fate."
- Marilyn Manson
"Don't pick the scabs or you'll never heal."
- Marylin Manson
"Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly"
- St Francis de Sales
"Don't forget to love yourself."
-Soren Kierhegaard
"How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before its June.
My goodness how the time has flown.
How did it get so late so soon?"
-Dr Seuss
How lucky I am to have something
That makes saying goodbye so hard.
-From the movie "Annie"
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