Thomas Jefferson -

"A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life. 1. Never put off till to-morrow what you can do today. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. 6. We never repent of having eaten too little. 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. 9. Take things always by their smooth handle. 10. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred."

"I know it seem hard sometimes but uhh
Remember one thing
Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that
So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out
Keep your head up, and handle it"

-Tupac Shakur

50th rep acquired with this post! Mini celebration.
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Check my motto ;)

"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." ~Thomas Sowell

Just one of my many favorite quotes

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Marianne Williamson.

"Suicide is a permanent solution to temporary problems" - Phil Donahue

Very true. Also my favorite quote ever. I first heard it in World's Greatest Dad but the moment I heard it I fell in love with the quote.

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
- Dr. Seuss

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."
-Robin Williams

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy

"it's not gay if it's a three way"
- Brandon

My name is Brandon

It's all Tolkien/Tolkien related


"Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised." Aragorn



Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.

- Samwise Gamgee at Osgiliath




"Hold your ground! Hold your ground!

Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers,

I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me.

A day may come when the courage of men fails,

when we forsake our friends

and break all bonds of fellowship,

but it is not this day.

An hour of wolves and shattered shields,

when the age of men comes crashing down,

but it is not this day!

This day we fight!!

By all that you hold dear on this good Earth,

I bid you stand, Men of the West!!!"

- Aragorn at the Black Gate


There was one from the U.S. Marine Corps, but I can't remember enough of it to find it or who said it.