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ibana27 · 10-21-2009, 09:21 PM

Love all of the quotes!!! My recent favorite:

“Be Who You Are and Say What You Feel Because Those Who Mind Don't Matter and Those Who Matter Don't Mind.”

Wolfchild · 10-22-2009, 07:34 AM

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
~Winston Churchill

LouboutinGrrrl · 11-11-2009, 02:59 AM

I LOVE quotations!!!
I came across the following quotation during a recent trip to Barnes & Noble while perusing their inventory.

"And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"
- Kurt Vonnegut Man Without A Country

thegypsy2001 · 11-18-2009, 10:01 AM

God is a commedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.

Voltaire said it, i like it because it reminds me to lighten up and enjoy the world in which i live and not take everything so seriously.

Ainslie · 12-28-2009, 05:40 AM

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom - Thomas Jefferson

I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. - Marilyn Monroe

Wolfchild · 01-31-2010, 01:10 PM

Show me a river that has stopped flowing because it met a rock in it's path and
i'll show you a person who lives like they can't get past a problem they have.
~Wolfchild

nocoincidence56 · 01-31-2010, 01:31 PM

"Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it."
-Johann von Goethe

Slag · 02-01-2010, 03:27 PM

After going through the steps I realized how true this was.

"I yam what's I yam
and that's all what's I am"

Popeye the Sailor Man

Darrin11 · 03-03-2010, 10:28 AM

Today I woke up and I was everything I wanted to be.

I forgave myself of everything that had ever made me feel ashamed.

I loved everyone everywhere… even those who hurt me.

I sent love to those who have lost their way.

I wasn’t afraid… of anything anymore.

I realized… I was endowed with all the power of the Universe to think…

to feel… and create, and to love all that I have created.

I reveled… in the realization that this…

is the sum total of all I have intended for myself to date.

I realized…

that right NOW is the only moment there ever really is, was, or will be.

I knew… that all my past, except what was good, was gone.

I made a pact with myself never to forget…

to hold this feeling as if it were a little child… for indeed, it was.

~ Daniel Votino

scottie · 03-05-2010, 04:11 PM

A strong man defends himself But a stronger man defends others!!!

Wolfchild · 03-11-2010, 09:35 PM

Fear sits in the driver seat keeping the car in park while procrastination is in the passenger seat telling you that the car is headed in the right direction. Denial is what keeps the doors locked so you can't get out. ~Wolfchild

darkriver · 03-13-2010, 08:27 PM

"Custer wore an Arrow shirt."

--Bumper Sticker

HelpMeRecover · 03-15-2010, 01:24 PM

My favorite quote is:
Love for everyone and hatred for no one

Persevere · 03-21-2010, 02:11 PM

People may forget what you said, people may forget what you did, But people will never forget how you made them feel.

Even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

You shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.

pinkgurl87 · 03-21-2010, 08:24 PM

here's my two favourite:

" When you reach the end of your rope, tie a know and hang on." - ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When the catipillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly"

Wolfchild · 04-10-2010, 07:33 AM

Just because someone recognizes something is real, it's no gauruntee that they accept it! ~G.W.

ninja7 · 04-22-2010, 05:42 AM

The natural way can't be forced; learn from Zen proverb: Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself. - 自然は強制しない; 禅の諺から: 静かに座り、何もせずとも、春は来て草花は自然に育つ titan468 /twitter

FaultyWiring · 05-18-2010, 10:25 AM

"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together." - Carl Sagan

ninja7 · 05-21-2010, 05:12 AM

That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end. - Ringo Starr

onestepforward · 07-29-2010, 11:06 PM

"People in hell want ice water, but that don't mean they get it."

Ainslie · 08-05-2010, 08:02 AM

Never ruin an apology with an excuse

When youre going through hell - keep going - Winston Churchill

KariSue · 08-15-2010, 04:06 PM

"I can't help how I feel right now but I can help how I think and act." Anonymous

Kari

Wolfstarr · 10-21-2010, 05:50 PM

" Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. "

Unknown

Zuri · 12-22-2010, 04:39 PM

Love this thread - here are some of my favourites

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. - Winston Churchill

"It's better to remain silent and let everyone think you're stupid, than to open your mouth and leave them in no doubt!"

I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own - Unknown

"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." - -Ramona L. Anderson

mwstylee · 12-29-2010, 07:20 PM

This is how I feel about alcoholism and the hangovers associated with it:

The sunlight hit me dead in the eye
Like it's mad that I gave half the day to last night
-by Atmosphere

Kind of a new perspective on the complete waste of time that drinking is.

10-22-2009, 07:34 AM	#302 (permalink)
Wolfchild Disposable Hero Tournaments Won: 3 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Being, ME Posts: 3,758 Blog Entries: 3	Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. ~Winston Churchill __________________ Any clean addict is a miracle and keeping the miracle alive is an ongoing process of awareness, surrender, and growth

11-11-2009, 02:59 AM	#303 (permalink)
LouboutinGrrrl Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: New Iberia, LA Posts: 1	Favorite Quotations I LOVE quotations!!! I came across the following quotation during a recent trip to Barnes & Noble while perusing their inventory. "And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'" - Kurt Vonnegut Man Without A Country

11-18-2009, 10:01 AM	#304 (permalink)
thegypsy2001 Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: originally West Palm Beach, but currently eastern Tenn. Posts: 2	i like this God is a commedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh. Voltaire said it, i like it because it reminds me to lighten up and enjoy the world in which i live and not take everything so seriously.

01-31-2010, 01:10 PM	#306 (permalink)
Wolfchild Disposable Hero Tournaments Won: 3 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Being, ME Posts: 3,758 Blog Entries: 3	Show me a river that has stopped flowing because it met a rock in it's path and i'll show you a person who lives like they can't get past a problem they have. ~Wolfchild __________________ Any clean addict is a miracle and keeping the miracle alive is an ongoing process of awareness, surrender, and growth

01-31-2010, 01:31 PM	#307 (permalink)
nocoincidence56 Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Central, La. Posts: 422	"Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it." -Johann von Goethe __________________ Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor E. Frankl

10-21-2009, 09:21 PM	#301 (permalink)
ibana27 Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: greensboro nc Posts: 15	Love all of the quotes!!! My recent favorite: “Be Who You Are and Say What You Feel Because Those Who Mind Don't Matter and Those Who Matter Don't Mind.”

12-28-2009, 05:40 AM	#305 (permalink)
Ainslie Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Australia Posts: 543	Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom - Thomas Jefferson I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. - Marilyn Monroe

02-01-2010, 03:27 PM	#308 (permalink)
Slag Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 116	After going through the steps I realized how true this was. "I yam what's I yam and that's all what's I am" Popeye the Sailor Man

03-03-2010, 10:28 AM	#309 (permalink)
Darrin11 Former meth abuser Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Florida Posts: 18	Today I woke up and I was everything I wanted to be. I forgave myself of everything that had ever made me feel ashamed. I loved everyone everywhere… even those who hurt me. I sent love to those who have lost their way. I wasn’t afraid… of anything anymore. I realized… I was endowed with all the power of the Universe to think… to feel… and create, and to love all that I have created. I reveled… in the realization that this… is the sum total of all I have intended for myself to date. I realized… that right NOW is the only moment there ever really is, was, or will be. I knew… that all my past, except what was good, was gone. I made a pact with myself never to forget… to hold this feeling as if it were a little child… for indeed, it was. ~ Daniel Votino

03-05-2010, 04:11 PM	#310 (permalink)
scottie scottie Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: GLASGOW SCOTLAND Posts: 6	A strong man defends himself But a stronger man defends others!!!

03-11-2010, 09:35 PM	#311 (permalink)
Wolfchild Disposable Hero Tournaments Won: 3 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Being, ME Posts: 3,758 Blog Entries: 3	Fear sits in the driver seat keeping the car in park while procrastination is in the passenger seat telling you that the car is headed in the right direction. Denial is what keeps the doors locked so you can't get out. ~Wolfchild __________________ Any clean addict is a miracle and keeping the miracle alive is an ongoing process of awareness, surrender, and growth

03-13-2010, 08:27 PM	#312 (permalink)
darkriver Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: PA Posts: 9	"Custer wore an Arrow shirt." --Bumper Sticker

03-15-2010, 01:24 PM	#313 (permalink)
HelpMeRecover Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 62	My favorite quote is: Love for everyone and hatred for no one

03-21-2010, 02:11 PM	#314 (permalink)
Persevere Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 11	People may forget what you said, people may forget what you did, But people will never forget how you made them feel. Even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. You shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.

03-21-2010, 08:24 PM	#315 (permalink)
pinkgurl87 Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Guelph, Ontario Posts: 558 Blog Entries: 10	here's my two favourite: " When you reach the end of your rope, tie a know and hang on." - ~Franklin D. Roosevelt "When the catipillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly"

04-10-2010, 07:33 AM	#316 (permalink)
Wolfchild Disposable Hero Tournaments Won: 3 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Being, ME Posts: 3,758 Blog Entries: 3	Just because someone recognizes something is real, it's no gauruntee that they accept it! ~G.W. __________________ Any clean addict is a miracle and keeping the miracle alive is an ongoing process of awareness, surrender, and growth

05-18-2010, 10:25 AM	#318 (permalink)
FaultyWiring Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 57 Blog Entries: 5	"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together." - Carl Sagan

07-29-2010, 11:06 PM	#320 (permalink)
onestepforward Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: us Posts: 115	"People in hell want ice water, but that don't mean they get it."

08-05-2010, 08:02 AM	#321 (permalink)
Ainslie Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Australia Posts: 543	Never ruin an apology with an excuse When youre going through hell - keep going - Winston Churchill __________________ you can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it. you are marvelous the gods wait to delight in you. Charles Bukowski

08-15-2010, 04:06 PM	#322 (permalink)
KariSue Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 197	"I can't help how I feel right now but I can help how I think and act." Anonymous Kari

10-21-2010, 05:50 PM	#323 (permalink)
Wolfstarr Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Deeeep South Posts: 767	" Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. " Unknown __________________

12-22-2010, 04:39 PM	#324 (permalink)
Zuri back again 11/09/2011 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Scotland Posts: 104	Love this thread - here are some of my favourites The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. - Winston Churchill "It's better to remain silent and let everyone think you're stupid, than to open your mouth and leave them in no doubt!" I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own - Unknown "People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." - -Ramona L. Anderson

12-29-2010, 07:20 PM	#325 (permalink)
mwstylee Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Midwest Posts: 195	This is how I feel about alcoholism and the hangovers associated with it: The sunlight hit me dead in the eye Like it's mad that I gave half the day to last night -by Atmosphere Kind of a new perspective on the complete waste of time that drinking is.

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