Hello everyone. Today ends my little contribution to the three day quote challenge. Thank you again to Emz for nominating me.
And please remember that I’ve nominated you all for this challenge. If you feel like doing it let me know in the comments to this post as I am very eager to see more quotes.
The challenge has a simple set of rules. For three consecutive days, the challenge nominee posts one, two or three quotes. Also, with each of these posts, the nominee nominates three other bloggers – although, me being me I’m nominating all of the blogs that I follow.
I have posted three quotes each day, the third of which is one that has made me smile or laugh when I first heard it.
Some may think it odd for a Christian to quote from a rival religion but I’ve always taken pride in listening to and accepting ideas not emanating from my own faith. My first quote proves the wisdom of this goal, I believe. It’s a call to action to not only improve your own life but also to improve the world around you.
“If you don’t fight for what you want; don’t cry for what you lost.” – The Bhagvad Gita
Fight for the rights and the goals of yourselves and others before it no longer becomes a possibility in the foreseeable future.
My second quote is from Jim Elliot. The quote is – “He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.” You cannot keep your spare time, for example. It slips away minute by minute. Just think what you could use that spare time to achieve.
And now, the final quote. By now you know that I will end with a quote from a strong-willed (or legendarily difficult) Hollywood actress who started to grace our silver screens in those days of black and white talkies.
Lauren Bacall passed away less than two years ago and her quote clearly shows how she was being made to suffer modern life just like the rest of us. My apologies to any fans of Twilight out there but I have to admit that I’m with Lauren Bacall on this one.
She said of the movie Twilight, “my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever.” Hmm, maybe that is too bold a claim to put to such a successful and vastly experienced actress as her grandmother.
“After the ‘film’ was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe.”
Lauren Bacall thought of her legacy, however, and so pursued a different action. “I gave her a DVD of Murnau’s 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu and told her , ‘Now that’s a vampire film!”
A great final word. Modern incarnations of things are not always the best. Many modern houses crumble to the ground or need constant maintenance, but the world is littered with castles and pyramids still standing after centuries.
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