Christmas Quote for your Girlfriend
“Tell me, if I caught you one day
And kissed the sole of your foot,
Wouldn’t you limp a little then,
Affraid to crush my kiss?…” — Nichita Stanescu (Romanian author)
Pain Quotes
Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional. – Buddhist proverb
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. – Epictetus
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink
his remedy in silence and tranquility. – Khalil Gibran
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. – The Buddha
Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. – Paul Tillich
If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. – Jim Carrey
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. – Henri Nouwen
No pain, No gain. – Anonymous
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. – Lance Armstrong (bicycle racer)
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. – Thomas Jefferson
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain – and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain. – Tony Robbins
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. – Julius Caesar
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. – Toni Morrison
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. – Joseph Campbell
Harry Potter’s Top 10 Quotes
1) “Harry, don’t go picking a row with Malfoy, don’t forget, he’s a prefect now, he could make life difficult for you…”
“Wow, I wonder what it’d be like to have a difficult life?” said Harry sarcastically.
2) “Proud?” said Harry. “Are you crazy? All those times I could’ve died, and I didn’t manage it? They’ll be furious….”
3) “Listen, if you [Fred and George] don’t take it [the gold], I’m throwing it down the drain. I don’t want it and I don’t need it. But I could do with a few laughs. We could all do with a few laughs. I’ve got a feeling we’re going to need them more than usual before long.”
4) “There’s no need to call me sir Professor.”
5) “Pity you can’t attach an extra arm to yours [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you.”
6) “I like a quiet life, you know me.”
7) “She’s Ron’s sister.
But she’s ditched Dean!
She’s still Ron’s sister.
I’m his best mate!
That’ll make it worse.
If I talked to him first-
He’d hit you.
What if I don’t care?
He’s your best mate!”
8) “You know your mother, Malfoy? The expression on her face – like she’s got dung under her nose? Is she like that all the time or just because you were with her?”
9) “Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!”
10) “He was my mum and dad’s best friend. He’s a convicted murderer, but he’s broken out of wizard prison and he’s on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though…keep up with news…check if I’m happy…”
Buddha Quote of the Day
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” – Buddha
Muhammad Ali Quotes
It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Ain’t no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.
If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman’s behind!
If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don’t ask how. Hitch him up.
I’m retiring because there are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.
I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ’em out, I pick the round.
Allah is the Greatest. I’m just the greatest boxer.
Floats like a butterfly, sting like a bee, his hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.
I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick.
I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and got into bed before the room was dark.
Superman don’t need no seatbelt.
When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
I’m the best. I just haven’t played yet. – on playing golf
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Only the nose knows where the nose goes when the doors close.
I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didn’t choose it and I don’t want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name – it means beloved of God – and I insist people use it when people speak to me and of me.
I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin’ hell, but as long as they ain’t free, I ain’t free.
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs?
Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I’m not fighting one man. I’m fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of ’em, here is one man they couldn’t defeat, couldn’t conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people.
A man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.
Now you see me, now you don’t. George thinks he will, but I know he won’t!
Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise.
It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.
Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.
I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams — they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do — they all contain truths.
Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.
I’m so fast that last night I turned the light switch off in my bedroom and I was in bed before the room was dark.
I’m the king of the world, I am the greatest, I’m Muhammed Ali, I shook up the world, I am the greatest, I’m king of the world, I’m pretty, I’m pretty, I’m a baaaad man, you heard me I’m a baaad man, Archie Moore fell in four, Liston wanted me more, so since he’s so great, I’m a make him fall in eight, I’m a baaad man, I’m king of the world! I’m 22 years old and ain’t gotta mark on my face, I’m pretty, I easily survived six rounds with that ugly bear, because I am the greatest.
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.
Joe’s gonna be smokin’ an’ I ain’t even jokin but I’ll be peckin’ and a pokin’ and I’ll pour water on that smokin’. Now this might astound and amaze ya but I will destroy Joe Frazier.
I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.
People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy – nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like them. Like my man, Elvis Presley – I was the Elvis of boxing.’
It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.
Here I predict Sonny Liston’s dismemberment, I’ll hit him so hard, he’ll forget where October-November went.
My toughest fight was with my first wife, and she won every round.
It’s not bragging if you can back it up.
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.
Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
I am the greatest; I said that even before I knew I was.
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room. – Muhammad Ali
Criticism Quotes
“Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.” – Fritz Perls
“You can disagree without being disagreeable.” – Zig Ziglar
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill
“Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”- Andy Warhol
“You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.” – John Wooden
“If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have character.” – Paul Newman
“Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.”- James Luther Adams
“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.” – Frank A. Clark
“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.” – Kurt Vonnegut
“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.” – Wole Soyinka
“Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.” – David Zucker
“People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.” – Anne Tyler
“Once you label me you negate me.” – Søren Kierkegaard
“We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.” – Walt Disney
“He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Criticism is the art of appraising others at one’s own value.” – George Jean Nathan
“He only profits from praise who values criticism.” – Heinrich Heine
“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.” – David Brinkley
“Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That’s harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who’ve got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.”- Simon Cowell
“Don’t abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.” – Edgar Watson Howe
Deep Life Quotes
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. – Theodore H. White
It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. – J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
When the best leader’s work is done the people say, “We did it ourselves.” – Lao Tzu
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. – Anonymous
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices – just recognize them. – Edward R. Murrow
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin
There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
– Nelson Mandela
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. – John F. Kennedy
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. – Meister Eckhart
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life Quote of the Day
“Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear.” – Anonymous
Abba Quotes
“I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it’s really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.” – Agnetha Faltskog
“I had a dream and it was fulfilled by meeting with Benny, Bjorn and Agnetha.” – Anni-Frid Lyngstad
“We don’t want to write political songs. We don’t want to turn our records into speeches.” – Benny Andersson
“There’s a real melancholy in [Abba’s] songs… all the flourishes, like big double octaves on the piano. We stole them like crazy.” – Elvis Costello
“I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it’s my stuff.” – Lasse Hallstrom
“I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.” – Elaine Paige
“I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.” – Pete Waterman
“I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA.” – Martin Fry
“You’re not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It’s nerdy.” – Izabella Scorupco
Honesty Quotes
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ~Henry Louis Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. ~Mark Twain
Who lies for you will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ~Abraham Lincoln
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. ~Thomas Carlyle
A half truth is a whole lie. ~Yiddish Proverb
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. ~Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. ~Austin O’Malley
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. ~William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence,” Poems from the Pickering Manuscript
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. ~Aristotle
The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. ~George Herbert
With lies you may get ahead in the world – but you can never go back. ~Russian proverb
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ~Josh Billings
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. ~Ambrose Bierce
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. ~Edgar J. Mohn
When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. ~Bill Copeland
Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it. ~Mark Twain
Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911
A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. ~Author Unknown
We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. ~Tad Williams
Truth fears no questions. ~Unknown
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously. ~Thomas Sowell
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ~Thomas Jefferson