wise words

after hearing so many good quotes that i want to remember i started keeping track of them. this is what i have gathered so far. i figured i would share them. feel free to contribute if you know a good one.

I do not understand what I am doing. For I do not practice what I wish, but I do what I hate.
Rom 7:15

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Peter 5:8

Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.
Matthew 24:12

All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.
Ecclesiastes 3:20

The dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
Ecclesiastes 12:7

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Revelation 9:6

The worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

When we have chopped down the last tree, caught the last fish, and poisoned the last river, only then will we realize we can not eat money.
Native Americans

Fuck me once, fuck you. Fuck me twice, fuck me.

Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Bruce Lee

You live what you learn.
Linkin Park

Wish in one hand and shit in the other. Tell me which hand fills first.

The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or we can rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Alphonse Karr

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
Susanna Clark and Richard Leigh

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Dennis Gabor

Be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

We can not solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see. But you can not close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.
Johnny Depp

Whatever you are, be a good one.
William Makepeace Thackeray

The more we share, the more we have.
Leonard Nimoy

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Bruce Lee

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Never throw away anyone.
Audrey Hepburn

Don't waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear.
Paulo Coelho

The truth is, everybody is going to hurt you. You just have to find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob Marley

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama

If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
Martin Luther King Jr

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi

Who are you to judge the life i live? I am not perfect and i don't have to be. Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.
Bob Marley

Kind words are short and easy to speak. But their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa

Life itself is your teacher and we are in a state of constant learning.
Bruce Lee

Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, and hide every pain.
Will Smith

Be sure you put your feet in the right place. Then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln

It's never too late to do anything you want to do. You never know what you can accomplish until you try.
Michael Jordan's Father

The future depends on what we do in the present.
Mahatma Gandhi

Opportunity is missed by most people because it looks like work.
Thomas Edison

Hate has caused many problems in the world. But it has not solved one.
Maya Angelou

Always pass on what you have learned.
Yoda

Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
Yoda

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
Yoda

You will know the good from the bad when you are calm and at peace.
Yoda

Beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, and aggression is the dark side of the force. Easily they flow. Always quick to join a fight. If you start down the dark path, forever it will dominate your destiny. Consume you it will.
Yoda

You must unlearn what you have learned.
Yoda

In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.
Yoda

Through the force, things you will see. Other places. The future. The past. Old friends long gone.
Yoda

When you look at the dark side, be careful. The dark side looks back.
Yoda

Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda