Favourite Quotes and Quotations

These quotes are ones I keep in my liturgy for memorials. I felt a need to share them:

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. ~ William Penn

From my body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. ~ Edvard Munch

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. ~ Quintus Ennius

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. ~ George Eliot


And my favorite, from The Prophet by Khalil Gibran:

You would know the secret of death.
But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.
If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;
And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king?
Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes;
he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
~ Chinese Proverb

" Your hair is winter fire, January embers, My heart burns there, too "
IT- SK
mega cute quote, ever :D

"Long Days and Pleasant Nights"- of course.

Also, the last line/paragraph of IT. I lost my copy. So I don't remember it word for word.

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very
silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
~ Henry Van Dyke

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Also, the last line/paragraph of IT. I lost my copy. So I don't remember it word for word.

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He awakens from this dream unable to remember exactly what it was, or much at all beyond the simple fact that he has dreamed about being a child again. He touches his wife's smooth back as she sleeps her warm sleep and dreams her own dreams; he thinks that it is good to be a child, but it is also good to be a grownup and able to consider the mystery of childhood...its beliefs and desires. I will write about all of this one day, he thinks, and knows it's just a dawn thought, an after-dreaming thought. But it's nice to think so for awhile in the morning's clean silence, to think that childhood has its own sweet secrets and confirms mortality, and that mortality defines all courage and love. To think that what has looked forward must also look back, and that each life makes its own imitation of immortality: a wheel.

Or so Bill Denbrough sometimes thinks on those early mornings after dreaming, when he almost remembers his childhood, and his friends with whom he shared it. -sK, IT

Thank you, blunt head. Now I'm excited to re-read IT once my copy of the 25th Ann. comes in (and I reach the end of the Tower).

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish
a man's growth without destroying his roots.
~ Frank A Clark

#1:"When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they don’t stop, destroy them."-(The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth #11) #2:"You're too old, fat man. Your tits are too big. Get the f#ck off my porch."Tyler Durden (Fight Club).
#3"Never go with a hippie to a second location." Jack Donaghy(30 Rock) #4"Stop that crying kid,or I'll pull your ears down,and tie em under your chin."Victor Criss(IT)

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
George Carlin

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain