Alice Quotes:

*~*~* I have a bunch of quotes on my sidebar, but I LOVE quotes, so I thought a page would be a good idea. Perhaps some day I'll come back and sort them, but for now they'll be a list.*~*~*

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"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."

~Buddha

"Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination."

~Robert Fulghum

"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might have been, by far; for a might have been has never been but a has was once an are."

~ Milton Berle

“Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”

~Frodo Baggins ~ The Lord of the Rings ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

 "People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies: Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow: Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway."

~Mother Teresa

"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"

~John Lennon

"When you're drowning you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me.' you just scream."

~John Lennon

 "If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it’s OK to be different, that it’s good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.”

 ~Johnny Depp

"We are all a little weird and

Life’s a little weird,

And when we find someone whose

Weirdness is compatible with ours
We join up with them and fall in
Mutual weirdness and call it Love"
~Dr. Seuss

"To be great is to be misunderstood."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“May the wind always be on your back and the sun upon your face and may the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.”

~Johnny Depp

"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music."

~Angela Monet

"I always wonder why
birds stay
in the same place
when they can fly
anywhere on earth.
Then I ask myself
the same question"

~Harun Yahya

 "I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."

~Sarah Williams

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."

~Elizabeth Kubler

"Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It's basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating."

~Simon Pegg

"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it."

~Edward Magorium

(Mr.Magorium's Wonder Emporium)

"You're familiar with the phrase "man's reach exceeds his grasp"? It's a lie: man's grasp exceeds his nerve."

~Nikola Tesla

(The Prestige)

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”

 ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

~Dr. Seuss

“It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.”
~A.A. Milne 

(It's all about perspective!)

“God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.” 

~John Muir

“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”  

~President Theodore Roosevelt

"Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think."
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”

~Eskimo Proverb

“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”

~Chuck Palahnuik

"Where we're standing now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything." 

~Chuck Palahnuik 

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." 

~Plato

"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap." 

~Cynthia Heimel

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends." 

~Maya Angelou

“You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.” ~John Lennon

"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can't eat money." 

~Cree Proverb

"It'll be a great day when the schools have all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." ~bumper sticker

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

 ~ Oscar Wilde

I find most of the quotes I use at
 thinkexist.com.
If a quote comes from a movie
I find the quote at imdb.com