Thought for Today

joanlawson

Hi

I'm starting this thread as a place to post any interesting thoughts, ideas, or observations on life you care to make. They can be serious or silly, however the mood takes you.

So here is my thought for today:

“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”

This was said by James Dean, the American film star, who died tragically in a car accident when he was young. When I was a teenager, I was madly in love with him, and had his photograph plastered all over my bedroom walls. I was heartbroken when he died. I like the quote from him, and I try to follow his advice.

Joan

frogmorton

Nice One Joan

Let's hope he lived by that and they he will have died fulfilled maybe??

Love

Toni xx

gickygawky

Hi there,

I am looking at a little scrap of paper I tore out of something when I was feeling pretty beat up. It's a picture of a little ginger kitten looking into a mirror and seeing a reflection of a beautiful lion.

It reads 'What matters most is how you see yourself'

I try and keep this in mind when I feel defeated and try and remember to remain a strong, confident person who will take life by the horns and not let arthur win. Grrr!

Arna x

dreamdaisy

One of my favourite lines (quoted elsewhere on a forum) is from Khalil Gibran's The Prophet.

The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.

That keeps me going. DD

angel1

"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage".


The sayings of Lao Tzu are so prolific, and this is one of my favourites.

elnafinn

"Every road leads to two directions: away from something and towards something"

VA Koskenniemi

joanlawson

frogmorton wrote:

Nice One Joan

Let's hope he lived by that and they he will have died fulfilled maybe??

Love

Toni xx

Re James Dean: He still takes my breath away :!: Looking at this link, I can see why I idolised him as a teenager.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJrig5Wl5ZI&feature=fvw

joanlawson

Thank you for your replies Arna, DD, Ange and Elna

All very thought-provoking quotes, aren't they :?:

The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain

Sometimes it is difficult to see that at times of sorrow, but would we be able to fully experience joy if we had no sorrow :?:

"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage".

I like that one, Ange, and I think it is very true.

'What matters most is how you see yourself'

Yes, I think you have to make the most of yourself, and realise that we all have faults.

"Every road leads to two directions: away from something and towards something"

It's when I stand at the crossroads that the trouble begins :!:

dreamdaisy

You have both, and it's more positive to view it that way. Well, that's what I think! MArcus Aurelius dod some good stuff too but I can't reach my book on him. Will get a more able person to reach it for me later. I'll be back. DD

wendgro

A saying I was given I think it's a quote from the Bible

Be gentle even when wronged temper and pride subdue when to forgive seems hard ask WHAT WOULD JESUS DO this saying has been with me all my life and on many occasions I have used it.

joanlawson

When things get twisted and out of joint,
Don't get discouraged and quit the game,
Remember a corkscrew never goes straight to the point,
But it gets there just the same.

Joan

joanlawson

My thought for today:

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

- Mark Twain

ninakang

"Those are my principles and if you don't like them... well, I have others."

Groucho Marx is supposed to have said that. It always makes me laugh.

Nx

joanlawson

Hi Nina

Another Groucho Marks quote is:

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

I thought you might appreciate that one

ninakang

Very wise man that Groucho Marx

Nx

joanlawson

This one's for you, Nina:

"Hug a firefighter and feel warm all over."

ninakang

Inspired, Joan! And I don't think many FFs would object 8)

Nx

joanlawson

Thought not :!:

dreamdaisy

I like Mae West.

Interviewer: Miss West, I hear you give men the run-around.

MW: Honey, I got a circular bed.

Never fails to make me smile. DD

joanlawson

Another Mae West one which makes me smile is:

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

ninakang

I like saying this one to my daughters, especially the eldest 2 who are getting to the age where they want to appear grown up:

"Every time a child says ' I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead"

It's by some scottish playwright or other, I forget now.

Nx

suzster

ninakang wrote:

I like saying this one to my daughters, especially the eldest 2 who are getting to the age where they want to appear grown up:

"Every time a child says ' I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead"

It's by some scottish playwright or other, I forget now.

Nx

aww, thats a sad one nina!!
sue

frogmorton

"Every time a child says ' I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead"

EEEEKKK!!!!!!!!

I know I know - it's not a fairy but it's the best i could do.... :oops:

dreamdaisy

What a lovely angel! Smashing pic - is it from that site that everyone uses round here? Livinglegend taught me how to do it, I feel v proud. I'm still hunting for Marcus Aurelius - he wasn't where I thought he was. He's hiding. DD

skezier

I verify this one is so true.....

Cornwall hangs around the neck of her children like a mill stone.... Daphne Du Maurier

You know Fairies also die if you say thank you when someone says bless you following a sneeze..... I think pos like sheep fairies are just looking for ways to die I always explain to people why I don't say thank you as to not do seems such bad manners x

frogmorton

OMG

CRIS!!!

there must be loads of fairies then :shock:

if they are being killed willy-nilly by thoughtless people :shock:

Yes DaisD they are on that one in the 'angels' section think midis might be minis :?

Love

Toni xx