Beege's Favorite Quotes
This is my collection of quotes. Just about anything I've come across that I liked and remembered to keep. A couple at the bottom are actually quotes from Brian, my roommate in college, he said them all time, and then the last one is my own confusing personal reflection on life, or the best I can put into words about what my mind says, theres a lot more to it, but its too confusing to write down.
I don't regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.
Learn as if you were going to live forever.
Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.
When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.
The lottery is like taxation of people who are bad at math.
If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.
If you do what you need to do when you need to, then you'll have time to do what you want to do when you want to.
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
To the world you might be one person,
but to one person you might be the world.
Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.
Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to McDonald's makes you a hamburger.
Life is 10% of what happens to you, and 90% of how you respond to it.
Real friends are those who,
when you feel you've made a fool of yourself,
don't feel you've done a permanent job.
Did it ever occur to you that nothing occurs to God?
Life is like an onion;
you peel off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
There are two things I've learned:
There is a God. And, I'm not Him.
Following the path of least resistance is what makes rivers and men crooked.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Work like you don't need the money,
dance like nobody's watching,
and love like you've never been hurt.
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
Brian's:
Absolut –ly
I don't suffer from insanity,
I enjoy every minute of it.
Who needs sleep?
Beege's Personal Reflection:
Each individual life is pointless in the overall scheme of things.
Eventually no one will remember you and your life won't affect the universe or life in general.
You're the only one that's going to live it.
In the long run the only thing that matters is what you get out of it.
Nothing really matters in the end so live life to the fullest and have fun.
We all die sometime.
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