Positive quotes

[buzzingtalk]

Originally Posted by patchouli Lover

Oh ya I forgot this one. It's a classic!

When the power of love overcomes the love of power... the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

thats written in big letters on my bedroom wall and is soon to be tattooed onto my arm

[Benito]

there has to be evil so that good can prrove its purity above it
- Buddha

[waterfordgirl]

"courage is not the lack of fear it is acting in spite of it."

"yes there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run there's still time to change the road you're on." -Stairway to Heaven, Led Zeppelin

[BedtimeontheMoon]

Every End is a New Beginning..

[joe7f]

"Eat, drink, dance, and enjoy life as the world will eventually end" -- Spanish toast

"To health, love, money and the time to enjoy them" -- Spanish toast

--Joey

Their original forms are "A comer, beber, bailar y gozar que el mundo se va acabar" y "Salud, amor, pesetas, y tiempo para disfrutarlos"

[bowiezone]

Originally Posted by Kaffeine

How about

"We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams." Willy Wonka (1st movie)

This is actually the beginning of a great poem called by "Ode" Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy. Here's the first stanza, and I guess I'm not allowed to post links yet, but you can just Google it to read the whole thing (you definitely should, it's one of my favorites!)

We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

[bowiezone]

I loooove quotes, and I have a tons of them written down all over the place...

“Our crowns have been bought and paid for – all we have to do is wear them.” James Baldwin

“The most wasted day of all is one without laughter.” e.e. cummings

“The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate – it is life, intensified, brilliant life.” Alain Arias-Misson

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every blade of grass has its angel that watches over it and whispers, ‘Grow, Grow.’” Talmud

“You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours.” Anne-Wilson Schaef

“The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order… the continuous thread of revelation.” Eudora Welty

“All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, kowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.” Doris Lessing

Everyone has a secret world inside them. All the people in the whole world. I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside; inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.
- Neil Gaiman, Sandman


And not necessarily inspirational, but definitely funny (Mark Twain is awesome):

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If someone should come up to me and challenge me to a fight, I would take them kindly and forgivingly by hand, lead them to a quiet place and kill them." -Mark Twain

[dragonfruit]

"Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery." Spike Milligan

[dragonfruit]

"Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” George Carlin

[Holycowpies]

“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' What did they call such young people in Goethe's Germany?”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

[lerma]

Patience is a virtue. We should always learn how to wait and be patient.

[kenneth4WB]

there has to be evil so that good can prrove its purity above it
- Buddha

That's a nice one.