Some of my favorite quotes

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And one fine morning ——
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

yours is the light by which my spirit's born:
yours is the darkness of my soul's return
- you are my sun,moon,and all my stars
-e.e. cummings

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.
-W.C. Fields

There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.
-Ansel Adams

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
-Plato

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence;
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty!
For Yesterday is already a Dream,
And Tomorrow is only a Vision;
But Today well lived makes every
Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, and every
Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn.
-From the Sanskrit

"I miss, I miss, I miss, I make."
-From golfer Seve Ballesteros, describing a four-putt in the Masters

Practice puts brains in your muscles.
-Sam Snead

People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball.
I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
-Rogers Hornsby

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
-Rogers Hornsby

A word to the wise ain't necessary...it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
-Bill Cosby


I know I'm missing some. There's one in particular by John Muir that I can't seem to find anywhere, I had it on a bookmark...and lost the book =>:-(

*EDIT* Found my quote. Not the bookmark or the book though.

Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.
-John Muir

This is so true. All my life I've been drawn to nature, in particular the ocean...which is somewhat ironic, because even as it soothes me to be there, I'll never go in the water..my greatest fear is drowning..which is REALLY ironic considering where I come from. But whenever I'm down that's where I invariably go to unwind, decompress, to relax. In my mind, there's nothing else like it. Muir was right. Nature heals...whether in rocks or water or sky...but especially in hearts.

There are others, to be sure...mostly lover's laments and whatnot. And I haven't even started on movies, TV or music lyrics yet.

As Barney or Ted would say, "wait for it...wait for it..."