FAVORITE QUOTES

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"Lord help my poor soul."
-Edgar Allan Poe (last words before he died)

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
-Mahatma Ghandi

"Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames!"
-Joan of Arc (last words)

"I am not young enough to know everything."
-Oscar Wilde

”Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
-Walt Whitman

From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.
-Edgar Allan Poe

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
-J.R.R. Tolkien

"Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are friends."
- Richard Bach, Illusions

"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."
-Douglas Adams

"If you look for the worst in people and expect to find it, you surely will."
- Abraham Lincoln

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

-Mahatma Ghandi

 

"And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man."
-Martin Luther King Jr., the day before he was assassinated

 

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
-Oscar Wilde

 

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

'At this moment I wish I were dead. I just can't cope anymore’.
-Ian Curtis, suicide note, April 18, 1980

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
-Douglas Adams

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
 - Winnie the Pooh

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."
- Buddha 

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
-Henry David Thoreau

 

"Imagination is more important than knowledge..."
-Albert Einstein

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
-J.R.R. Tolkien

”He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
-Mahatma Gandhi"

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."
-Confucius

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
-Martin Luther King Jr.