User:CDA/note to self
== (Favorite Quotes) ==
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. ~Toni Morrison
Beauty
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her. ~Author Unknown
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. ~Daniel Webster
Love
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. ~Author Unknown
Love is what you've been through with somebody. ~James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. ~Tom Robbins
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Men
No man is worth your tears, And when you find the one who is, He will never make you cry. ~ Unknown
Seth
"Do not personally give any more conscious consideration"..."to events that you do not want to happen. Any such concentration, to whatever degree, ties you in with those probabilities, so concentrate upon what you want...", Seth's 891st session.
Suffering is not good for the soul unless it teaches you how to not suffer. That is its purpose.
For you find ALL THAT IS through the understanding, the joy, the compassion and the experience of your own individuality.
Rumi
Your task is not to seek for love, But merely to seek and find All the barriers within yourself That you have built against it.
Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.
A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough so the pearl buys itself.
Movies
"This just proves it - the more people that are scared of you the more flowers you get." ~ Cady from Mean Girls
"Girls only want guys with great skills... You know, like nunchaku skills... bowhunting skills... computer hacking skills." ~ Napoleon Dynamite
Malibu Stacy
- Let's buy makeup so the boys will like us!
- Now let's all forget our troubles with a big bowl of strawberry ice cream!
- Thinking too much gives you wrinkles.
- Don't ask me, I'm just a girl! (giggling)
- I wish they taught shopping in school!
- Let's bake some cookies for the boys!
- My name is Stacy, but you can call me (two-note wolf whistle)
- My spider sense is tingling! Did anyone call for a webslinger? (Obviously a mismanufactured doll with Spider-Man phrases)
(didn't she also say "math is hard!" if I remember right?)
Lisa Lionheart
- If I choose to get married, I'm keeping my own name!
- Trust in yourself and you can achieve anything!
Abe Simpson
- Now! Hey, listen! Now, my story begins in 19 dickety two. We had to say dickety 'cause that Kaiser had stolen our word twenty. I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety six miles.
from Wikipedia
Wabi-sabi "nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect."
wanted quotes (please fill this in if you have them)
- ... Aileen Wuornos dialogue from the movie Monster where she says "if you just believe in yourself... well, they have to tell you something." - I'd like that whole quote.