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elucrehGo to the Quotations Page and hunt through it until you find five ten quotations that you feel really sum up who you are. (NB. if you register you get the use of your own personal quotes page where you can store quotes you like the look of, and pick some suitable ones off there afterwards). Post them on on your LJ. Watch as other people go "ooh, shiny!" and copy you in wasting the entire afternoon/evening on the site.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
--J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Okay, yes, it's JKR, but I swear it came off the site! And it's an attitude I would like to bring to the world in general.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
--Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
We can't learn things if we won't admit--to ourselves or others--that we don't know them. I like marching through the world charmingly admitting that I know almost nothing.
A grandfather was walking through his yard when he heard his granddaughter repeating the alphabet in a tone of voice that sounded like a prayer. He asked her what she was doing. The little girl explained: "I'm praying, but I can't think of exactly the right words, so I'm just saying all the letters, and God will put them together for me, because He knows what I'm thinking."
--Charles B. Vaughan
This...well, all right, first it just made me smile at the child. But I'm finding more and more that I no longer know what to ask from the universe...I've just got to say, "I want to wind up happy" and do my best.
At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.
--Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal
Pure cheese, of course...but it's one of my deeper-held beliefs, all the same.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
--Dr. Seuss
This is, exactly, the thought behind my every action. If you love me, you love all of me, and you accept my flaws and you respect my feelings. And if you do not know me, or do not love me, you may as well get used to me, for I will not change for you, now or ever.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
--Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
I care. A whole awful lot. On purpose.
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
--Francois Fenelon
WORD.
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.
--Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
This especially struck me because I've spent much of the past weekend talking with my twelve-yo cousin about comic books. Admittedly, I'm not much of a fan, myself...but he is, and he takes a depth and breadth of interest in them that makes me want to just love the whole world for producing him. It's interesting to hear what he has learned, and he has learned it of his own volition and on his own time. His parents are like that, too, and really...when I grow up, I want to be just like him.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
--Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Though sometimes this attitude gets me into trouble, it's still what I strive to do.
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
--Unknown
DAMN. STRAIGHT. Really, the reason I want to make a career of small children is that there is no pinnacle point, no distant and dreamy goal. Every day you are making small changes, important ones, that lead on and on, building blocks that never end or come to a neat stopping point that I'm aiming at. Today, I'm accomplishing something.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
--J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Okay, yes, it's JKR, but I swear it came off the site! And it's an attitude I would like to bring to the world in general.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
--Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
We can't learn things if we won't admit--to ourselves or others--that we don't know them. I like marching through the world charmingly admitting that I know almost nothing.
A grandfather was walking through his yard when he heard his granddaughter repeating the alphabet in a tone of voice that sounded like a prayer. He asked her what she was doing. The little girl explained: "I'm praying, but I can't think of exactly the right words, so I'm just saying all the letters, and God will put them together for me, because He knows what I'm thinking."
--Charles B. Vaughan
This...well, all right, first it just made me smile at the child. But I'm finding more and more that I no longer know what to ask from the universe...I've just got to say, "I want to wind up happy" and do my best.
At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.
--Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal
Pure cheese, of course...but it's one of my deeper-held beliefs, all the same.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
--Dr. Seuss
This is, exactly, the thought behind my every action. If you love me, you love all of me, and you accept my flaws and you respect my feelings. And if you do not know me, or do not love me, you may as well get used to me, for I will not change for you, now or ever.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
--Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
I care. A whole awful lot. On purpose.
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
--Francois Fenelon
WORD.
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.
--Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
This especially struck me because I've spent much of the past weekend talking with my twelve-yo cousin about comic books. Admittedly, I'm not much of a fan, myself...but he is, and he takes a depth and breadth of interest in them that makes me want to just love the whole world for producing him. It's interesting to hear what he has learned, and he has learned it of his own volition and on his own time. His parents are like that, too, and really...when I grow up, I want to be just like him.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
--Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Though sometimes this attitude gets me into trouble, it's still what I strive to do.
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
--Unknown
DAMN. STRAIGHT. Really, the reason I want to make a career of small children is that there is no pinnacle point, no distant and dreamy goal. Every day you are making small changes, important ones, that lead on and on, building blocks that never end or come to a neat stopping point that I'm aiming at. Today, I'm accomplishing something.
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Date: 2006-08-15 09:17 am (UTC)Nice quotes! I'm particularly amused by the fact that the first one up there's a JKR quote...