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Do you have a favorite quote? Something unusual?

Please give the 'author' if you know who it is.

Thanks!

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  • 2 decades ago
    Favorite Answer

    I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference you lived at all.

    Leo Rosten

  • 2 decades ago

    "First commandment. There ain't no such thing as 'one true way,' and the way you find is only good for you, not anybody else, because your interpretation of what you see and feel and understand as the truth is never going to be the same as anyone else's.

    Second commandment. The only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself.

    Third commandment. Leave the world better than you found it.

    Fourth commandment. If it isn't true, going to do some good, or spread a little love around, don't say it, do it or think it.

    Fifth commandment. There are only three things worth living for; love in *all* its manifestations, freedom, and the chance to keep humanity going a little while longer. They're the same things worth dying for. And if you aren't willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race. That's all there is, so far as I know or care. The rest is just ruffles and flourishes."

    Source(s): Diana Tregarde, explaining to Mark Valdez her philosophy on life as written by Mercedes Lackey in "Burning Water"
  • 2 decades ago

    Pain is weakness leaving the body.

    swimming: a real sport. everything else is just a game.

    an eye for an eye only ends up with the whole world being blind. - Ghandhi

    it's kind of fun to do the impossible - walt disney

    beauty is power. a smile is its sword.

    Life is 10 percent of what happens to you and 90 percent of how you respond to it.

    I have a dream - Martin Luther kIng, Jr.

    To the world you may just be somebody, but to somebody you may be the world.

    LOVE WILL PASS BY MANY TIMES. BUT TRUE LOVE WILL STOP AND LOOK.

    aahh so many good quotes! hope you like them!

  • An unusual quote that I find amusing comes from this episode of Good Times where JJ tells Michael that he needs to use larger words in his essay.

    "I wanna see some big 'MUGUNGOUS' words!"

    I have a weird sense of humor, just found that hilarious.

    Source(s): TV Land lol
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  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    It's not really an unusual quote, but whatever.

    "Any book worth reading once is worth reading twice."

    Author: Me

  • 2 decades ago

    How would you know if you forgot? TCC.

    A lover of life, and the life to my lover. TCC.

    Thank you for Pot smokeing. UNKNOWN.

    Womans Panties not best thing on earth, But next to it.

    American baseball is wrong,,, A man with 4 balls can not walk.

    Man who walks through airport terminal sideways, is going to Bancock.

    Oh and,,

    Source(s): Enjoy, Peace! Thomas '73
  • 2 decades ago

    Whenever I was dwelling on something silly, but seemed important at the time, my grandma used to say "Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice". It was her way of saying "Get over it"

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change." ~ Charles Darwin

  • 2 decades ago

    ......The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

    -Marcel Proust ;)

    ty for your support!

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    Whatever poopy

    author: my four year old daughter.

    I hope you weren't expecting anything deep and philosophical.

  • 2 decades ago

    eagles fly...pilots land-friend/ or good idea... bad execution-coach/ or hey y'all... watch this-most of us in the south that have ever gotten ripped.

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