The Quote Meme

[mamculuna]

Because I haven't memed in at least a week:

Go to http://quotationspage.com/random.php3 and read until you find five quotes that speak your truth.

The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)


How do we know that in clinging to this life we are not merely clinging to an illusion and delaying our entry into the real world?

Chuang-tzu (369 BC - 286 BC)


Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)


In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell (1903 - 1950) (I have this one as a bumpersticker)


Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.

Robert Doisneau

Comments

[jrelkins.livejournal.com]

All very good quotes! Except I read the Orwell one as a "revolutionary cat" at first. lol

[jrelkins.livejournal.com]

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
-Unknown (although I think it might be Buddha)

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
- Oprah Winfry (I prefer Eleanor Roosevelt's quote though; but it hasn't come up)

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.
- Anne Michaels

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
- Pablo Picasso

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Love those, especially the Camus!

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

That's what he should have said!

[himmapaan.livejournal.com]

Wonderful. :)

[anomster.livejournal.com]

And I read it as "revolutionary art," but not until the 2nd time I saw it! These days, we need more truth-tellers who can raise it to an art...like Orwell.