The thread of favourite and profound quotes

[KryticalH!T]

Richard Bach is one of my favorite writers of all time! My favorite quote by him is : "Every mistake holds a gift in its hands. You make mistakes because you require their gifts."

[Citizen_Insane]

Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.

Roy Batty, Nexus 6

+1 for awesome movie quote.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

Interesting fact, "All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain" was never scripted, Rutger Hauer just said it... yeah, I partially found that out from wikipedia

[keithace]

this is the one i live my life by...there is a second one...i will post in a few...

what Wayne Gretzky's dad told him...

"skate to where the puck is going...not where it's been"

an absolute definition of the way to live life...

[keithace]

“What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. He rides the drifts like an escaped ski. His course is a caress of the hill. His track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement with wind and rock. Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape.”
― Leonard Cohen,

[JonathanBlake]

“What is a saint?......”
Leonard Cohen

Wow!

(going to bum my Father-In-Law's Leonard Cohen collection)

[smiTTTen]

Just found this one. It's from another DJTT member who shall remain nameless. Profound? To me - yes.

""It’s possible he’d be nicer to you if you speak French but I’m skeptical; I think he’s just a dick."

[Zaniac]

amazing game. goodbye life
-Jester.NZ

[photojojo]

"As far as anarchists go, Nietzsche had nothing on Jesus"

from Saint Ralph

[JonathanBlake]

"As far as anarchists go, Nietzsche had nothing on Jesus" from Saint Ralph

Much truth in that.

[mostapha]

"As far as anarchists go, Nietzsche had nothing on Jesus" from Saint Ralph

Nice.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life . . .

It's at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I don't know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind. I wish I believed, as J. B. Priestley did, that consciousness continues after disembodiment or death, not forever, but for a long while. Three score years and ten is such a stingy ration of time, when there is so much time around. Perhaps that's why some of us are insomniacs; night is so precious that it would be pusillanimous to sleep all through it!

A "bad night" is not always a bad thing.

Then tell me what really matters
Is it the money and the fame
Or how many people might eventually know your name
But maybe you touch one life
And the world becomes a better place to be
Maybe you give their dreams another day
Another chance to be free

There isn't any elsewhere.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child. But, when I became a man, I put my childish ways behind me. For now we see in a glass but darkly; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And then these three remain: faith, hope and Love. And the greatest of these is Love.