I was thinking about making a thread where some can share their favorite quotes EVER. Those liitle things that you read or that people say that stuck in you, in your mind, that describe how you feel. Personality, I have a thing for Abraham Lincoln's and Martin Luther King's way of thinking.
Here are some of my favorite quotes from them :

I'll start with Lincoln as this idea came to me after a big debate yesterday on Religion, God and the Pope. And that he conveys so much better what I think.

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”

“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession.”

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”

“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”

― Abraham Lincoln

(I won't post his long speech on equality since most people know it and I'm not sure I can quote it well).


“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr.

''I like your beard'' - Ke$ha

so emotional everytime i read this

"My hips don't lie." - Shakira

A really famous quote :

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. 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

I love it, I think he really should be a woman's anthem in a relationship.

Six Feet Under delivers the best quotes

Great quotes. Concise and to the point.

Is that a show? Sometimes shows can have such amazing quotes, I always end up forgetting them after though.

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”

I don't think it's by anyone famous or anything but I read this one a while ago and it has stuck with me:

"Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don't know what they are going through, and they may need that smile."

Oh gosh. When I was in high school, this really annoying girl in one of my classes reiterated this very quote to the entire class and tried to pass it off as her own. It was hilarious because, like you said, it's really well-known, so everyone knew that it wasn't hers and we all started laughing at her for pretending it was. Good times. :')

I came in here thinking 'if I see that damn Marilyn quote', like every 14 year old chav girl in the world writes it on facebook.

"Power is being told you are not loved and not being destroyed by it" is probably my fave. It's so true. Madonna's so wise.

Amazing quote.
It doesn't have to be by someone famous, later in the thread I'll probably post things my mother thaught me, after all she did a very good job with me. j/K

Great quote, I said something similar to my depressive colleague a month ago and frankly it works. It makes you feel better as well as the person in front of you.

ffff I wasn't going to put it at first but I figured that after the first two comments, it was fitting.
She is.

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. ”

It is an excellent quote because sometimes you don't realise how much a little effort from you everyday may mean to someone else.

Oh and another one by Gaga this time:
It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love.

That reminds me I was having a discussion with one of my best friends on how she hates Angelina Jolie () and I told her it was so wrong to actually hate her when she doesn't even know her. Then she asked me : "well what's the difference you do love celebs and you don't know them either". I had nothing to object now I do.

Why are we born to work and struggle, each with a portion of happiness and sorrow, only to die too soon?- Huston Smith.

"If you don't have any shadows, you're not standing in the light."- Lady Gaga

inspiring ****