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“Placing certain quotations together is like seating strangers around a dinner table; you can’t be sure where the conversation will lead. Sometimes the meaning of a quote changes simply because it occurs out of context. But it’s also true that certain words have a life of their own. Clear as a window, they allow us to see through them; reading them, we see what we need to see.” – Sy Syfransky, Introduction to Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations
Back in May 2011, an English teacher named Jessica Dovey posted an altered Martin Luther King Jr. quote to her Facebook status, unintentionally turning the quote into a misattributed internet phenomenon.
“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Although this was adapted from a MLK quote placed out of context, the speed with which it spread throughout the internet attested to the power of quotation. How many times have you come across a quote worded in such a way that has affected you more than the author could have ever anticipated? Perhaps it was an idea or emotion that you thought was unique to you–written down in a book by someone else many years ago.
Quotations ultimately have the power to elicit a whole range of emotions and to connect us to the thoughts and feelings of individuals hundreds of years and miles apart. What’s your favorite quotation? Share in the comments below!
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Derived from The Sun, the eminent monthly national literary magazine with a loyal readership of 70,000 people, Sunbeams features a selection of quotations for the aficionado of the form, the fan of the magazine, and anyone looking for an instant reminder of the beauty, power, and sheer complexity of the human spirit. Avoiding the familiar, the book contains pithy thoughts from a diverse group that includes James Baldwin, Mother Teresa, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rumi, and Victor Frankl, who survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Provocative and uplifting, the book respects both the glory and the heartache of being human.
“Peace begins with a smile.” ~Mother Teresa
“Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat when it came to charging the imagination – my imagination, anyway.” ~ David Sedaris
A journey without a challenge has no meaning; one without purpose has no soul.
-Phil Cousineau
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. -Les Brown
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere –Agnes Repplier
” I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.”
- Rabindranath Tagore
” Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive that is you-er than you.” Dr. Suess
“I always try to believe at least six impossible things before breakfast” – Alice in Wonderland
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are always cocksure and the intelligent are always filled with doubt.” – Bertrand Russell
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“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.” Johann Friedrich von Schiller
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark Twain
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“To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.”
~ Aristotle
Great minds discuss ideas
Average minds discuss events
Small mind discuss people—Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.” —J.K. Rowling
my favorite quote is
“It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them”
-Dalai Lama
I never give them hell. I tell them the truth and they think it’s hell. Harry S. Truman
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I like this quote from Oscar Wilde: “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” Thank you for the giveaway!
3 Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. 4 Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. ~1 Peter 3:3-4
“Never eat more than you can lift” ~ Miss Piggy
“If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”
What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“We are so accustomed to disguising our true nature from others, that we end
up disguising it from ourselves.”
— La Rochefoucauld
“Humility isn’t thinking less of yourself; it’s thinking of yourself less.”
A smile. It’s full of worth and goodness too, with manly kindness blent, It’s worth a million dollars and it doesn’t cost a cent.
- Wilbur D. Nesbit
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a baby fills that place in your heart that you never knew was empty
We are all mad here! Cheshire Cat
Who makes these changes? I shoot an arrow right. It lands left. I ride after a deer and find myself chased by a hog. I plot to get what I want and end up in prison. I dig pits to trap others and fall in. I should be suspicious of what I want.
Expression is the one fundamental sacrament … and love is the one fundamental expression. (Oliver Wendell Holmes … and me)
“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”
? Paul Sweeney
“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy”~Eskimo legend
If you love something let it go,
If it comes back to you it’s your’s,
If it doesn’t, it never was.
If you don’t know where you are going,
you’ll end up some place else.
Yogi Berra
“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.” – Hermann Hesse
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran