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[Oowatanite]

So I procrastinated and now I need a yearbook quote by tomorrow at midnight. I discovered R.E.M. a month or two before I started high school, so I think it's fitting to use an R.E.M. lyric or even a quote by one of the guys. Problem is I can't choose one. The character limit is pretty high, you could probably fit a verse and a chorus if necessary. All I could think of so far:

"Trust in your calling, make sure your calling's true
Think of others, the others think of you
Silly rule golden words make, practice, practice makes perfect,
Perfect is a fault, and fault lines change"

Doesn't necessarily have to be R.E.M..

[thomas08]

"Think of others, the others will think of you" is pretty good. or "its the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine"

[wrong child- jr.]

Look at my signature:

[ebowtheloser]

I'll tell you what, if i saw an 18 year old kid use "We are hope despite the times" as their yearbook quote, I'd feel a lot better about the future... for a minute or two anyway

[Oowatanite]

I ended up going with: “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
― John Lennon

(or the last line only if that's too long, though they are very generous with the space).

[ebowtheloser]

Oowatanite, on 21 December 2011 - 07:18 PM, said:

I ended up going with: “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
― John Lennon

(or the last line only if that's too long, though they are very generous with the space).

Nice!

[Driver Nate]

Oowatanite, on 21 December 2011 - 07:18 PM, said:

I ended up going with: “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
― John Lennon

(or the last line only if that's too long, though they are very generous with the space).

Cool. I was going to suggest "They airbrushed my face".

[ebowtheloser]

Driver Nate, on 22 December 2011 - 07:20 AM, said:

Cool. I was going to suggest "The airbrushed my face".

Oh. That is brilliant! I want to go back in time and make that MY yearbook quote!

[sciryl2K]

I got to this thread late, I see, but I was going to suggest "High school is part lies, part heart, part truth, part garbage." : )

[drollcat]

sciryl2K, on 22 December 2011 - 08:40 AM, said:

I got to this thread late, I see, but I was going to suggest "High school is part lies, part heart, part truth, part garbage." : )

wow, that's precisely what high school is!

[Oowatanite]

sciryl2K, on 22 December 2011 - 08:40 AM, said:

I got to this thread late, I see, but I was going to suggest "High school is part lies, part heart, part truth, part garbage." : )

haha! that would have been great too

[Leilani]

I'm late too, but a colleague at work left just before Christmas, and asked me (the most tactless person on the planet) what he should say, I wrote him a few veiled insults for him to use but I finished my notes for him with "It's easier to leave than to be left behind".

He didn't use the quote, but the people who saw what i wrote thought it was great and appropriate for his reasons for leaving (I didn't tell them they weren't my words)!