April 30, 2011

Ralph Waldo Emerson: There are...

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

Lee R. Raymond: In every...

In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.
/Lee R. Raymond/

Tecumseh: When you...

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
/Tecumseh/

April 29, 2011

Eric Hoffer: Perhaps a...

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
/Eric Hoffer/

Yamamoto Tsunetomo: I have...

I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.
/Yamamoto Tsunetomo/

April 28, 2011

E. V. Lucas: The truth...

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.
/E. V. Lucas/

April 27, 2011

Rudyard Kipling: I never...

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
/Rudyard Kipling/

April 26, 2011

Aaron Burr: The rule...

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
/Aaron Burr/

April 25, 2011

Simone de Beauvoir: On the...

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself - on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life...
/Simone de Beauvoir/

April 24, 2011

Ishmael Reed: Ethnic life...

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
/Ishmael Reed/

April 23, 2011

Raoul Vaneigem: Never before...

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
/Raoul Vaneigem/

April 22, 2011

Anthony Holden: Whether he...

Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life.
/Anthony Holden/

April 21, 2011

Benjamin Disraeli: Grief is...

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
/Benjamin Disraeli/

April 17, 2011

Robertson Davies: A happy...

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
/Robertson Davies/

Raymond Charles Barker: The principle...

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
/Raymond Charles Barker/

April 16, 2011

Hank Nuwer: Few of...

Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.
/Hank Nuwer/

Kemal Ataturk: A nation...

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
/Kemal Ataturk/

April 15, 2011

Irving Berlin: Life is...

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.
/Irving Berlin/

Bill Vaughan: Economists report...

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
/Bill Vaughan/

April 13, 2011

Andre Agassi: Yes, for...

Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.
/Andre Agassi/

Tahar Ben Jelloun: I write...

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
/Tahar Ben Jelloun/

April 12, 2011

Marcus Aurelius: And thou...

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
/Marcus Aurelius/

Johann Gottlieb Fichte: God is...

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
/Johann Gottlieb Fichte/

Gerard De Nerval: Our dreams...

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
/Gerard De Nerval/

April 11, 2011

Jessi Lane Adams: The philosophy...

The philosophy of mine earth can be summed up as this: Sunshine creates happiness, and I create myself. Nights are long and life is predominantly good. Wind is refreshing. Tea is wisdom. Do the best you can, and be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others.
/Jessi Lane Adams/

Alberto Salazar: We may...

We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.
/Alberto Salazar/

Barbara L. Diamond: Does the...

Does the father figure in your cat's life ever clean the litter box? My husband claims that men lack the scooping gene.
/Barbara L. Diamond/

April 08, 2011

Lalu Prasad Yadav: My mother...

My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.
/Lalu Prasad Yadav/

April 07, 2011

Joseph Campbell: One way...

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
/Joseph Campbell/

Madeleine L'Engle: In the...

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
/Madeleine L'Engle/

April 06, 2011

Anita Brookner: In real...

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
/Anita Brookner/

April 05, 2011

John Zorn: I put...

I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together.
/John Zorn/

George Bernard Shaw: I am...

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
/George Bernard Shaw/

April 04, 2011

Wilson Mizner: Life is...

Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.
/Wilson Mizner/

Maya Angelou: My life...

My life has been one great big joke,<BR>A dance that's walked,<BR>A song that's spoke,<BR>I laugh so hard I almost choke,<BR>When I think about myself.
/Maya Angelou/

April 03, 2011

Louise L. Hay: If we...

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
/Louise L. Hay/

Cicero: It is...

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.
/Cicero/

John Brewer: Our true...

Our true ancestry is the emergent creativity of the universe. Our forebears were the great inventors who 'learned' how to coalesce hydrogen and helium into stars, to form planets, to sustain life first from mineral nutrients in the sea and later to capture delicious photons, to exploit oxygen for energy rather than be exterminated by it, to diversify via sexual reproduction, to form social groups for greater security and protection of offspring. We are the beneficiaries (and, admittedly, also the victims) of this narrative of emergence. Our 'companions' — abstract as this must sound to the uninitiated — are all of these progenitors. Indeed they are more than companions; they are family. From them we have inherited our corporeal shapes and movements, our body chemistry, and even some of our behavioral agendas.
/John Brewer/

April 02, 2011

Frederic Harrison: History is...

History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass.
/Frederic Harrison/

Friedrich Nietzsche: Most of...

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
/Friedrich Nietzsche/

April 01, 2011

Sachin Tendulkar: When there...

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.
/Sachin Tendulkar/