Here are some of my favorite quotes, poems, and sections from songs.
"Love looks not with the eyes
but with the mind;
and therefore is wing'd cupid
painted blind"
-William Shakespeare
"We write our own destiny. We become what we do."
-Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
"It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt."
-Suellen Fried
"A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?"
-Jane Wagner
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."
-Socrates
"One must fight for a life of action, not reaction."
-Rita Mae Brown
"Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you."
-Anonymous
"Hide not your Talents; they for Use were made. What's a Sundial in the Shade?"
-Benjamin Franklin
"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."
-Jessamyn West
"Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be."
-Clemantine Paddleford
"I've been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding"
-Harvy Danger
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and woman merely players:..."
-William Shakespeare
"THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE"
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!" he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismayed?
Not tho' the soldiers knew
Someone had blundered:
Theirs was not to make reply,
Theirs was not to reason why,
Theirs was but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Cannon to the right of them,
Cannon to the left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell,
Rode the six hundred.
Flashed all their sabres bare,
Flashed as they turned in air,
Sab'ring the gunners there,
Charging and army, while
All the world wondered:
Plunging in the battery smoke,
Right through the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reeled from the sabre-stroke
Shattered and sundered.
Then they rode back, but not--
Not the six hundred.
Cannon to the right of them,
Cannon to the left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that fought so well,
Came thro' the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of the six hundred.
When can their glory fade?
Oh, the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made!
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble Six Hundred!
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"A DREAM DEFERRED"
Harlem
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-
And then run?
Does it stink like rottn meat?
Or crust and sugar over-
like a syrupy sweet?
Mabye it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
-Langston Hughes
"DREAMS"
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
-Langston Hughes
"JABBERWOCKY"
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
-Lewis Carroll
When you're having a really bad day
and it seems like people are trying to piss you off...
Remember it takes 42 muscles to frown,
but only 4 to extend your finger and
flip them off!
"The only place when success comes before work is in the dictionary"
"I see the sun in your eyes
I see my tears that you cry
I see myself in your eyes
I see the sun"
"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."
-Thomas Alva Edison
"Before you ask 'Am I doing things right,' ask 'Am I doing the right things?'"
-Stephen R. Covey
"There are two ways of meeting difficulties.
You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them."
-Phyliss Bottome
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
-Cato The Elder
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
-Bill Cosby
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat."
-Queen Victoria, on challenges
"What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success."
-Anonymous
"Nothing is interesting if you're not interested."
-Helen Macinness
"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon."
-Susan Ertz
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
-Albert Einstein
"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself"
-Montaigne
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
-Socrates
"Three men can keep a secret if two of them are dead."
-Thomas Edison
