Bjorngrímnir responded to July Moon, who accepted a challenge from Penguin, who got the idea from her friend Clare.

Go here and look through random quotes until you find 5 that you think reflect who you are or what you believe.

It is entirely too easy to get lost in this exercise, hitting the "New Random Quotations" button ad infinitum, reading more and more interesting and witty quotes you wish you had thought of. What is difficult is finding quotes that reflect precisely the essence of who you are. Sometimes this happens and, as Bjorngrímnir pointed out in his post, some of us actually keep track of them when we do happen upon them. Quotes that reflect what we believe are easier to find. I'm sure if I had spent several more hours on this, I would have found more from both categories. But since I have to do something today for which I might actually get paid, I'll give you what I found:

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by. Maria Schell

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Norman Mailer (1923 - )

One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"

Here are a few that don't fit the criteria of the challenge for me, but that I can't resist posting because they are so good:

I knew I'd been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said "Free firewood" and my first thought was "Who was Firewood and what did he do?" John Berger

Be careful in revising those immigration laws of yours.
We got careless with ours.
advice given to Herbert Humphrey by a Native American from New Mexico

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
Ellen Goodman (1941 - )

It's lots of fun to read the other blogs who are participating in this challenge. You find quotes you wish you'd found for your own list; you get to know your online friends better; you read some interesting blogs! Some day it would be really fun to trace a meme all the way from where you found it to where it started!

Posted by Angela-Eloise at 11:03 AM