October 31, 2014

Bertolt Brecht: What a...

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
/Bertolt Brecht/

Albert Einstein: Life is...

Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.
/Albert Einstein/

Marcel Proust: In theory...

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.
/Marcel Proust/

P. L. Debevoise: Life begins...

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.
/P. L. Debevoise/

October 30, 2014

James Allen: Where faith...

Where faith is there is courage, there is fortitude, there is steadfastness and strength... Faith bestows that sublime courage that rises superior to the troubles and disappointments of life, that acknowledges no defeat except as a step to victory; that is strong to endure, patient to wait, and energetic to struggle... Light up, then, the lamp of faith in your heart... It will lead you safely through the mists of doubt and the black darkness of despair; along the narrow, thorny ways of sickness and sorrow, and over the treacherous places of temptation and uncertainty.
/James Allen/

October 29, 2014

Astrid Alauda: Reality is...

Reality is too much to take in heapfuls, but sprinkle it sparingly upon life's path and most can tread it lightly.
/Astrid Alauda/

Marvin Olasky: Fifteen years...

Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.
/Marvin Olasky/

October 28, 2014

Walter Salles: My father...

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
/Walter Salles/

October 26, 2014

Lemony Snicket: It is...

It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.
/Lemony Snicket/

October 22, 2014

Bette Davis: Wave after...

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
/Bette Davis/

Soren Kierkegaard: During the...

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
/Soren Kierkegaard/

B. Zander: In the...

In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.
/B. Zander/

October 21, 2014

Ross Presser: Life's a...

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.
/Ross Presser/

October 20, 2014

Salma Hayek: Life is...

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
/Salma Hayek/

October 19, 2014

Richard M. Daley: They knew...

They knew that Roosevelt and the Democratic party made a difference on them, on their quality of life issues, and they believed in that. But today it is completely different.
/Richard M. Daley/

October 18, 2014

Vaclav Havel: Sometimes I...

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
/Vaclav Havel/

William Arthur Ward: A well-developed...

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your step as you walk the tightrope of life.
/William Arthur Ward/

October 17, 2014

Helen Rowland: The follies...

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
/Helen Rowland/

Lauren Bacall: Looking at...

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
/Lauren Bacall/

October 16, 2014

L. E. Blaze: The true...

The true greatness of a nation is not measured by the vastness of its territory, or by the multitude of its people, or by the profusion of its exports and imports; but by the extent to which it has contributed to the life and thought and progress of the world. A man's greatness is not estimated by the size of his body or of his purse; not by his family connections or social position, however high these may be. He may bulk large in public estimation today, but tomorrow he will be forgotten like a dream, and his very servants may secure a higher position and a name lasting possibly a little longer.<br>So with nations. A great nation is not one which, like Russia, has an enormous territory ; or, like China, has an enormous population. It is the nation which gives mankind new modes of thought, new ideals of life, new hopes, new aspirations; which lifts the world out of the rut, and sets it going on a cleaner and brighter road.
/L. E. Blaze/

Mahatma Gandhi: There is...

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
/Mahatma Gandhi/

Henri-Frédéric Amiel: Every life...

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
/Henri-Frédéric Amiel/

October 14, 2014

Henry David Thoreau: The true...

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
/Henry David Thoreau/

H. Jackson Brown: If your...

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.
/H. Jackson Brown/

October 13, 2014

A. W. Hare: Half the...

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
/A. W. Hare/

Albert Einstein: I have...

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
/Albert Einstein/

October 12, 2014

Albert Schweitzer: In everyone's...

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
/Albert Schweitzer/

October 11, 2014

Benjamin Franklin: Do not...

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
/Benjamin Franklin/

James Nasmyth: From a...

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.
/James Nasmyth/

October 10, 2014

Denis Waitley: Never become...

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
/Denis Waitley/

October 09, 2014

Eckhart Tolle: All inner...

All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words are almost synonymous.<br>Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done-by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.
/Eckhart Tolle/

October 08, 2014

Albert Camus: You will...

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
/Albert Camus/

October 07, 2014

Friedrich A. Hayek: Once you...

Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of a higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarian regimes which horrify us follow of necessity. From the collectivist standpoint, intolerance and brutal suppression of dissent, the complete disregard of the life and happiness of the individual, are essential and unavoidable consequences of this basic premise; and the collectivist can admit this and at the same time claim that his system is superior to one in which the 'selfish' interests of the individual are allowed to obstruct the full realization of the ends the community pursues.
/Friedrich A. Hayek/

October 06, 2014

Bob Keeshan: It requires...

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.
/Bob Keeshan/

October 05, 2014

Richard Dawkins: After sleeping...

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked - as I am surprisingly often - why I bother to get up in the mornings.
/Richard Dawkins/

James D. Bryden: Love does...

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life's hazards, save one - neglect.
/James D. Bryden/

Franz Kafka: The fact...

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
/Franz Kafka/

October 04, 2014

John Ryman: You know...

You know what life really is? You're born, you suck your mother's tits. You get a little older, you suck your girlfriend's tits. You get married, you suck your wife's tits. That's what life is. Life sucks.
/John Ryman/

Victor Hugo: This convict,...

This convict, this desperate man, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has had me beneath his feet, and could have avenged himself, and who ought to have done so, as well as for his revenge as for his security, in granting me life, in sparing me, what has he done? His duty? No. Something more. And I, in sparing him in my turn, what have I done? My duty? No. Something more. There is then something more than duty.
/Victor Hugo/

Sebastian Bach: They have...

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.
/Sebastian Bach/