July 30, 2011

Neale Donald Walsch: As told...

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.
/Neale Donald Walsch/

Sean O'Casey: Wealth often...

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
/Sean O'Casey/

Jesse Ventura: The Constitution...

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
/Jesse Ventura/

July 29, 2011

Isabelle Eberhardt: A nomad...

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.
/Isabelle Eberhardt/

Samuel Johnson: Life cannot...

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
/Samuel Johnson/

Roger von Oech: Either you...

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.
/Roger von Oech/

Bo Jackson: My workout...

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
/Bo Jackson/

July 28, 2011

Robert Walpole: IT has...

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.
/Robert Walpole/

July 26, 2011

Heywood Hale Broun: The tragedy...

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
/Heywood Hale Broun/

July 25, 2011

Mary Catherine Bateson: Wherever a...

Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one pattern to another: a potential translation in which narrative becomes parable and the once upon a time comes to stand for some renascent truth. This approach applies to all the incidents of everyday life: the phrase in the newspaper, the endearing or infuriating game of a toddler, the misunderstanding at the office. Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
/Mary Catherine Bateson/

July 24, 2011

Wallace Stevens: I can't...

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure.
/Wallace Stevens/

July 21, 2011

John Mortimer: I refuse...

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
/John Mortimer/

July 20, 2011

Oswald Chambers: We are...

We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.
/Oswald Chambers/

July 19, 2011

George Santayana: Happiness is...

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
/George Santayana/

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Men and...

Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect...Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.
/Jean-Jacques Rousseau/

Oscar Wilde: To love...

To love yourself is the beginning of a lifelong affair!
/Oscar Wilde/

Erik H. Erikson: Hope is...

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
/Erik H. Erikson/

July 18, 2011

Alexandre Dumas: There is...

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
/Alexandre Dumas/

Thom Yorke: Well, my...

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.
/Thom Yorke/

July 16, 2011

Chuck Zito: I've been...

I've been fighting my whole life.
/Chuck Zito/

George Eliot: Mortals are...

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
/George Eliot/

July 15, 2011

William Ralph Inge: Don't get...

Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
/William Ralph Inge/

July 14, 2011

Euripides: There is...

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience.
/Euripides/

July 11, 2011

George Whitefield: Take care...

Take care of your of your life and the Lord will take of your death.
/George Whitefield/

Ernest A. Fitzgerald: It is...

It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.
/Ernest A. Fitzgerald/

July 10, 2011

Julie Walters: I'd like...

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.
/Julie Walters/

July 07, 2011

Hugh Mackay: But the...

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.
/Hugh Mackay/

July 06, 2011

Chuck Palahniuk: Your birth...

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
/Chuck Palahniuk/

July 05, 2011

Zig Ziglar: Little men...

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
/Zig Ziglar/

Lou Holtz: If you're...

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
/Lou Holtz/

July 04, 2011

Edward Dahlberg: Always like...

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.
/Edward Dahlberg/

July 02, 2011

Henry David Thoreau: Our truest...

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
/Henry David Thoreau/

July 01, 2011