Thursday, September 16, 2010

Some quotes that inspired me and helped me to get through many rough times :)

Just wanted to share my collection of quotes so far.Most of them have made a pretty much of an impact to my life. :)


  • If opportunity doesn't knock,build a door
  • If someone feels that they have never made a mistake in their life then it means they had never tried a new thing in their life - Einstein
  • The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting
  • Don't ask what the meaning of life is.You define it.
  • Life is infinitely stranger than anything the mind could invent
  • You see things and say "why" But I dream things that never are and say "why not?"
  • If you don't live for something,you'll die for nothing
  • If I can accomplish a minor task thousands have already completed,using readily available methods and tools,then I can do anything!
  • Remember you are born to live.Don't live because you are born.Don't go the way life takes you.Take the life the way you go.
  • Dream as if you'll live forever.Live as if you'll die today
  • Heal the past ,live the present and dream the future
  • When life doesn't find a singer to sing to her heart,she produces a philosopher to speak to her mind.
  • The miracle is not to fly in the air or to walk on the water but to walk in the earth.
  • You don’t need to win every medal to be successful
  • The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up
  • The man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. - George Moore
  • Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day - french proverb
  • If i have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention that to any other talent - Issac newton
  • Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once - Cyril Connolly
  • By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong - Charles Wadsworth
  • People will accept your ideas more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. - David H. Comins
  • Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee - Thomas Fuller
  • Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to be added, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery
  • Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it - Anonymous
  • Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime - Lao Tzu
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Cheers :)
-Irosha de Silva