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Journal Give Away – What is your favorite quote?

Note: Journal Give Away is now Closed
I will announce the winners shortly

What: I am giving away 5 sets of  Ecojot  journals I illustrated . (Each set includes 2 journals)
How: To enter, leave a comment on the following: What is your favorite quote? (funny, inspirational, whatever) For example “I intend to live forever – so far, so good.” –Stephen Wright
When: On January 1st, 2010 I will randomly select 5 people from below and mail each person 2 journals when they are available.
Rules: Just one comment per person on this page http://www.n8w.com/wp/2519. The journals will need to be mailed to an address within the United States or Canada.

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“It always seems impossible until it’s done. ”
-Nelson Mandela

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“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
-Ghandi

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“He who plants a tree plants hope.”
-Lucy Larcom

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“Dreams are necessary to life.”
-Anaïs Nin

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  • Alt e conta fino a dieci.
    (Stop and count to ten, which urges you to stop and
    think for a moment before springing into foolish action; the pause)

    Everyone is weird in their own way.
    Lisa S. Marshall
  • alfredoenciso
    "If you live with a one foot in the future and one foot in the past, then you're shitting onto today". Anonymous I Guess.
  • jill
    friendship isn't a big thing...it's a million little things

    not sure where i saw this quote, but love it!
  • jill
    friendship isnt a big thing...it's a million little things not sure where i saw this quote, but love it!
  • My father said all the time while growing up...two quotes: "Today is the first day for the rest of your life," which used to make us groan, and even better, "Don't let the turkeys get you down." Seems to be how I've lived my whole life.
  • Darby Bayly
    "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

    I love your work. It always makes me smile.
  • Maria
    "In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." Paul McCartney
  • This one is my favorite:

    "Speak your mind even if your voice shakes."
    — Maggie Kuhn
  • Nick
    This quote fits me well...
    "One's real life is often the life that one does not lead."
    -Oscar Wilde
  • noahwoods
    "Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter."
    - Pablo Picasso

    Hey, Mr. Nate!
    Wishing you and your family a wonderful holiday!
  • Cynthia
    I finally realized that sometimes you lose the good things in life to make room for the great things. ~Anonymous
  • "The only people who get any place interesting, are the people who get lost."
    J.D. Salinger

    It was my senior quote in high school, but still brings comfort to me that not everybody knows what the story of their life is going to be and some cool stuff happens when you just go with the flow.

    Will you randomly pick mine. please?
  • a high school friend once said, "I get older everyday." I think it was Bryan Williams.
  • A fanastic idea....the first few that come to mind are song lyrics....and the next few have already been posted....but here's mine to add:

    You can't always get what you want
    But if you try sometimes you might just find
    You get what you need
    ---Rolling Stones




  • "So many things to do and so few people to do them for me."- unknown
  • "The Earth is What We All Have in Common'
    Wendall Berry.
  • petaniehaus
    an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. -gandhi
  • petaniehaus
    an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. gandhi
  • My mother in law loves to plan, everything, everybody. I don't. Drives me crazy. She gets upset if things go according to her plans. I say:
    "Life happens while you are making plans."
  • I love that one .. and I know plenty of people I can say it to
  • "I can see beauty where others see ugliness. That either makes me an artist, or a person of very poor taste." — Anonymous
  • great!
  • T Lakier
    Don't be so hard on yourself. You've come to this life to learn all about who you are. So enjoy the experience.---Unknown
  • teacuprach
    "He not busy being born is busy dying." — Bob Dylan

    love the notebooks, nate. glad to see you work with ecojot! so cool!
  • Annelien
    Loose your head and come to your senses
    - Fritz Perls
  • tati_d
    My new personal mantra: "Trying to look good limits my life." -Stefan Sagmeister
  • What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?
    Woody Allen
  • Lea
    But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. "William Butler Yeats"
  • This one is from a fortune cookie I got:
    Knowing and not doing is the same as not knowing.

    Another favorite one but I don't know who said it, I got it from a friend years ago.
    A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.

    But if you need one that is attributed to a person.
    The mind flames out as it explodes and the flame enlightens us.
    Alexander Dumas from The Three Musketeers
  • "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well." Virginia Woolf
  • For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
    -Carl Sagan
  • sarahrivas
    don't let yesterday use up too much of your today (will rogers)
  • Not every clocktick needs a martyr.
    -John Woods

    Particularly appropriate, I feel, in the day and age of GTD, TODO apps, and the general weight and constant pressure of time. Unstructured time is infinitely valuable for us all - for recharging, regeneration, and personal growth.
  • Reghan Rivas
    People who think they know everything annoy those of us that do.
  • Excellent!
  • "Words are like leaves - and where they most abound, much fruit of sense is rarely found." Alexander Pope
  • Kris Hendershott
    "No women. No kids." Leon
  • Luc Melanson
    "What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?"
    Woody Allen
  • rebatra
    I invent nothing, I rediscover. - Auguste Rodin
  • "Dad, you were never dying." "But I'm going to live..."

    Two quotes, but one sentiment. That counts, yeah? From The Royal Tenenbaums.
  • "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
  • reneerivas
    "Follow your bliss."

    --Joseph Campbell
  • mayski
    Observe Everything.
    Communicate Well.
    Draw, Draw, Draw.

    -forgot who said that but heard it at Disneyland one year from one of those summer employees
  • darrenluchmun
    “Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live” Charles Bukowski
  • haha .. that's a great one
  • when the mind is ready, a teacher appears
    -ancient proverb
  • brianleeboyce
    When the mind is ready, a teacher appears
  • Ugh, I love these.
  • "inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work."
    -Chuck Close-
  • bobcipolla
    "One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."
    Aviator and Author, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • only one quote, that's hard, so many good ones.

    “A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy
    enough people to make it worth the effort.” - Herm Albright

    "It's not what you're looking at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry
    David Thoreau

    "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." ~Maya Angelou

    I couldn't decide, here's three :]
    These are wonderful covers, bright and cheery and fun!
  • haha I love this one “A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” - Herm Albright
  • "We are all pencils in the hand of God"- Mother Teresa

    I thought this would be nice cos Ecojot is about paper...
  • Yess
    I don´t buy everything I read, I haven´t even read everything I´ve bought... (Barenaked Ladies)
  • karynraz
    “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
    -Will Rogers


    "After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box."
    -Italian proverb


    "If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep”
    -Jewish proverb


    "It tastes like burning!"
    -Ralph Wiggum, on the Simpsons
  • Crystal Kim
    "I opened my eyes, and saw a pretty fair-faced man, who sighed and muttered these words between his teeth, 'O che sciagura d'essere senza coglioni!' [...] Astonished and delighted to hear my native language, and no less surprised at the young man's words, I told him that there were far greater misfortunes in the world than what he complained of."
    -from Voltaire's "Candide"

    Far too long for a notebook cover, but a fun excerpt, nonetheless. :)
    (the man is a castrato complaining about his lack of testicles after spotting a princess hiding in a tree.)
  • You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him discover it within himself.

    ----Galileo.
  • Sel
    Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.
    - Ravi Zacharias
  • In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. --Albert Einstein

    Great work, Nate!
  • "You must train - so that when you want to move you are already moving, and when you are moving - you are determined to move." - Bruce Lee
  • Everything happens for a reason.
  • Live the life you love
    In the god you trust
    And don't take it all to seriously

    - Love and Rockets (A Private Future)
  • "What is it with you southern girls? You can't make the right decision until you've tried all the wrong ones." - Sweet Home Alabama (movie)
  • "Invent a clever saying, and the world will remember you forever."
    anonymous
  • maribel
    mine is in Spanish, and Im at Mexico, so, I won't get in the contest, however here muy favourite quote ever!
    Aquél que adquiere la costumbre de la dicha, ya no necesita mayor estímulo del exterior: es feliz porque es feliz. -German Dehesa
    that one who acquires the habit of joy,no longer needs greater encouragment from the outside: is happy because is happy! by German Dehesa
  • Frankly Shilo
    “People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.”

    Bertolt Brecht quote
  • A writer without good whiskey is like a chicken without it's goddamn head.
    — William Faulkner
  • burn353
    "in my minds eye my thoughts start fires in your cities." -Charles Manson
  • tomzulli
    Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

    -John Lennon
  • sarahvazquez
    "Follow your bliss and don't be afraid" by Joseph Campbell
  • bovie
    "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." ~Groucho Marx
  • It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all outta gum.
    From Duke Nukem.
    Ok, I know he is not real but what a great quote.
  • Ian
    "I'm too drunk to taste this chicken."
    -Will Ferrell
  • "Don't fight forces, use them."
    - R. Buckminster Fuller

    Bucky is my hero!
  • These are great! My quote is "you get what you give - so give good"

    Cheryl
  • Don Moyer
    If you pursue excellence, your opponent will be pretty much everything.
    Michael McDonough in "Top 10 Things Never Taught in Design School"
  • Dickie Chikago
    I WOULD RATHER LIVE ENORMOUS THAN TO DIE DORMANT - JAY-Z
  • Christine
    All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
    -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Betsy Munger
    "Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is."
    — Will Rogers
  • Isabelle
    "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
    -- Albert Einstein
  • Milo
    I NEED the Space one!!!!!!!! Nate, please. will pay for shipment ;)
  • jesi_sz
    Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney
  • My favourite is the one Chris Guillebeau tweets regularly and it is:
    'Don't cry because it is over smile because it happened' - Dr Zeuss
  • Niki
    "Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might have been."
  • a dream without a plan, is just a dream.
    Helen Thayer
  • kfarr
    "A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread."
    -George Herbert
  • vickie99
    Life is a great big canvas, and you should
    throw all the paint on it you can.
    --- Danny Kayer
  • littletjane
    the rumors about my death are greatly exaggerated - mark twain
  • Let's try that again, and actually make sense :

    Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.
    --Milton Glaser
  • Computers are to design as microwaves are to computers.
    --Milton Glaser
  • Verónica Alvarez
    One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.
    Antoine de Saint Exupéry
  • aliciakachmar
    "What an abyss of uncertainty whenever the mind feels that some part of it has strayed beyond its own borders; when it, the seeker, is at once the dark region through which it must go seeking, where all its equipment will avail it nothing. Seek? More than that: create. It is face to face with something which does not so far exist, to which it alone can give reality and substance, which it alone can bring into the light of day."

    -Marcel Proust
  • jeff
    hey n8, my girlfriend said the other day "I aint' got a RED CENT". I was trippen on the phrase, and have heard it many times since a kid. So I checked on the origin. It was when the U.S created the lowest worth coin, to use when buying from American Natives. That penny was made in copper (unlike the nickles etc.) and had an American indian on the face. It was called the Redskin coin.... Then onto a Red Cent.
    During the depression, the phrase was made "..aint' got a Red Cent".
    My favorite for sure!
  • I love stories like that .. I am constantly looking up things like that on wikipedia... I am probably totally misinformed .. :)
  • these are all fantaaaastic!
    too many quotes there are so many good ones.... one I loved as a kid was:
    "happiness is like wetting your pants, everyone can see it but only you can feel its warmth."
    and my typography teacher said something funny the other day which is sort of irrelevant but its a quote:
    "Hyphens are an unfortunate existence in the world, like drugs or sex trafficking."
  • haha .. that's funny .. I never thought about hyphens .. but it's true
  • Passion will make you crazy, but is there any other way to live?
    —Howard Hughes

    Also, from A League of Their Own:
    "There's no crying! THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!"
    —Jimmy Dugan
  • ruivitorinosantos
    The assumption that comic books are for children, greasy-haired science fiction geeks, or middle-aged Japanese businessmen with a penchant for mildly paedophilic pop-eyed porn, is dead.

    Molly flatt
  • jessehoradotcom
    "Everything I touch turns to awesome."

    - Thought it appropriate for the notebook context.
  • hahah .. I like it .. I am just looking for good quotes .. it doesn't matter if they are good for notebooks or not. but I think that would work well on a notebook
  • jessehoradotcom
    Hahha, thanks. Hope you find the quote(s) you're looking for. One of
    my favorite things is a solid/funny/stupid/odd one liner.

    Cheers,
    Jesse Hora Dot Com™
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  • Ashley Williams
    "Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder." ~Henry David Thoreau
  • petexryan
    "get busy living or get busy dying" - red, from shawshank redemption ...or was it brooks?
  • Elwira Banki
    A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
    Winston Churchill
  • Elwira Banki
    A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
    Winston Churchill
  • I love the “Dreams are necessary to life.” one! awesome man, keep up the great work!
  • It's a little clunky for the cover of a notebook (!), but:

    "Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellow men, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received." - Albert Einstein.
  • These are awesome Nate!!! Love it....

    Anyway, my favourite quote has always been...

    "Kill the body, the head will die."
    Hunter S Thompson
  • Style is often a thing which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula for years and years, sometimes for one's whole lifetime..." [Picasso]
  • Kara Moore
    Sweet Journals!

    Fave Quote: "Design is as much an expression of feeling as an articulation of reason. It is an art as well as a science, a process and a product, an assertion of disorder, and a display of order.” - Victor Margolin.
  • crimius
    Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
  • Craig Edwards
    "Why, oh why do we pay taxes, huh? Just so we can have bloody parking restrictions, and bloody ugly traffic wardens, and bollocky pedestrian bloody crossings! Why not just have a "Stupidity Tax?" Just tax the stupid people!" --Edina Monsoon, AbFab
  • patricia nunez
    What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
    --Vincent Van Gogh
  • Dreams are necessary to life!
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