I believe that there are many beautiful quotes that are out there that are just classics. I have many favorites that are that way. Most of them are filled with beauty while others are so simple, that all that is in them is beauty (I feel that the most simple quotes are sometimes, the most beautiful). Here is one of my favorites. It is from the novel "The Little Prince":

It is with the heart that one sees rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

Feel free to add as you like (I know I'll add to my own topic because I have more favorites that I have in my quote book!)

(Ok, I'm on a "smilie high"!)

<3 Mems
"I count myself in nothing else so happy, as in a soul remembering my good friends."--William Shakespeare
"Seize the day; put no trust in tomorrow."--Horace

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile when a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "Flight to Arras".

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
~ Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychiatrist

I think your signature would go in that category as well... "Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow."

Have a fantastical day!

~* Radha *~

[This message was edited by Fair_GwenofAir on Nov 05, 2000 at 01:01 AM.]

"There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul."
--Victor Hugo

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
--Victor Hugo

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"And now faith, hope and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love."
--Saint Paul

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched--they must be felt with the heart."
--Helen Keller

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves."
--Shakespeare

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship."
--Louisa May Alcott

"A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lasts forever."
--Anonymous

"The voice of the sea speaks to the soul."
--Kate Chopin

(Another smilie high today!)

<3 Mems
"I count myself in nothing else so happy, as in a soul remembering my good friends."--William Shakespeare
"Seize the day; put no trust in tomorrow."--Horace

Man, I need a life REALLY bad! You are right! I never realized that "Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow" could go in this catagory. It is one of my "personal" quotes and I love so much (and it is from one of my favorite movies--Dead Poet's Society, one of the best ever made. There is really something with eighties movies, I don't know why!)

Now that I went off on a tangent, I'll try to get back on. There are so many beautiful quotes out there, and I know that everyone has a different opinion. So don't be afraid to share...I promise to respect what you think. I know that sounded really hokey...but it is the truth!

<3 Mems
"I count myself in nothing else so happy, as in a soul remembering my good friends."--William Shakespeare
"Seize the day; put no trust in tomorrow."--Horace

. . .for deep down in every man, woman, and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.
We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just as much as the feeling we have for a friend. Sometimes we had to search fearlessly, but He was there. He was as much a fact as we were. We found the Great Reality deep down within us. In the last analysis it is only there that He may be found.

~the authors of this chose to remain anonymous~

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Tranquility base here, the eagle has landed.
-First words spoken upon landing on the moon






The rest of these are not quite on teh same level as the first, two, but nothing is.

Nothing happens unless first a dream
-Carl Sandburg

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
-Albert Einstein

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.
-Albert Einstein

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.
-Albert Einstein

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

100 years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important, in the life of a child.
-Forest Witcraft

If you want to live a happy life, base it on a goal. Not on people or things.--Albert Einstein

Some of my favourites are:

�Live this day as if it will be your last.
Remember that you will only find �tomorrow�on the calendar of fools.
Forget yesterday�s defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is
it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The
saddest words you can ever utter are, �If I had my life to live over again.�
Take the baton now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat
everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were
going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial
the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you
can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never
be the same again.�
--Og Mandino

"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can
meet again. And meeting again after a moment or lifetime is certain for
those who are friends."
-- Richard David Bach

�Here we part.
The solitary sail will attempt a flight of a thousand miles,
The flowing clouds are the dreams of a wandering son,
The setting sun, the affection of an old friend.
So you go, waving your hands.�
--Li Po

"When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my
energy."
-Anon.

"If all my friends were to jump off a cliff, I would not jump with them. I
would be at the bottom to catch them."
--Anonymous

Jasopower
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"...Still, you just saved my life."
"We all make mistakes Mr. Bond."
Roger Moore and Barbara Bach, The Spy Who Loved Me.

"The thorns that wrap a wonderful rose shall condem us all."
-?

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."
-?

Andi
Hohman

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.~J. Krishnamurti

Several autumns ago, I walked up to the pine tree in my backyard and asked it one question: "What is institutional violence?" The tree did not answer right away. So I sat at its roots and waited. The backyard was covered with brilliantly colored autumn leaves, the air was fresh, and
suddenly I forgot that I was waiting for an answer. The tree and I were just there enjoying ourselves and each other. After sitting for a long time, I turned to the tree, smiled, and said, "I no longer need an answer." Then I thanked it an awarded it the Grand Transnational Peace Prize.~Thich Nhat Hahn

There are only four questions of value in life. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? And what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love~San Juan DeMarco

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a
gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or
confusion, who can stay with usin an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not
knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.~Henri Nouwen

Thank heaven! the crisis-
The danger is past,
And the lingering illness, is over at last
And the fever of "living",
Is conquered at last.
--Unknown

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human
mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in
the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage
far.The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us
little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up
such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that
we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into
the peace and safety of a new dark age.
--HP Lovecraft