Open Quote of the Week

[Jade]

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. -Gabriel Garcia Marquez,Nobel Prize laureate in literature. (March 6,1927 - April 17,2014)

(I don't own this quote whatsoever)

 

[Jade]

Success is liking yourself,liking what you do, and liking how you do it.-Maya Angelou (April 4,1928-May 28,2014...I don't own this quote whatsoever)

 

[Julie Justice]

That's a great quote @Jade.

And here are 2 other great quotes, also attributed to Maya Angelou.
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them..the first time."

"I did then, what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."

 

[Julie Justice]

(I meant to post this on Saint Patrick's Day, of course; but it's a nice sentiment always.)

"There are good ships,
And there are wood ships
The ships that sail the sea;
But the best ships are friendships
And may they always be."

Irish proverb

 

[Jade]

Believe in something larger than yourself...get involved in the big ideas of your time. Barbara Bush,Former First Lady from 1989 to 1993 (June 8,1925 to April 17,2018 I don't own this quote whatsoever)

 

[Jade]

It is not knowledge,but the act of learning,not possession but the act of getting there,which grants the greatest enjoyment.- Carl Friedrich Gauss,mathematician and physics (April 30,1777 to February 23,1855 I don't own this quote whatsoever).

 

[Jade]

Sometimes,what you're looking for is already there.- Aretha Franklin,alias 'The Queen of Soul' (March 25,1942 to August 16, 2018 I don't own this quote whatsoever)

 

[Lucy]

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting”

– E.E. Cummings

 

[Jade]

We live in a diverse society...in fact,a diverse world...and we must live in peace and with respect for each other. -Stan Lee (December 28,1922 to November 12,2018)

(I don't own the quote whatsoever)

 

[Jade]

One eye sees,the other feels.-Paul Klee,a Swiss German Artist (December 18,1879 to June 29,1940)
(I don't own this quote whatsoever)

 

[Deric Storm]

We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away.
- Andreas Katsulas (G'kar), Babylon 5

 

[Invader]

“Nothing is permanent in this world, not even our troubles.” ~Charlie Chaplin