July 28, 2015

Henry L. Doherty: Get over...

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
/Henry L. Doherty/

July 27, 2015

Anna Quindlen: I read...

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
/Anna Quindlen/

July 24, 2015

Victor Hugo: The supreme...

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
/Victor Hugo/

July 21, 2015

William S. Burroughs: Kerouac and...

Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another.'
/William S. Burroughs/

James A. Garfield: Territory is...

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
/James A. Garfield/

July 20, 2015

Bob Lemon: I've come...

I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen.
/Bob Lemon/

Alan Cohen: It takes...

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
/Alan Cohen/

Marcus Aurelius: The object...

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
/Marcus Aurelius/

July 19, 2015

Frank Lloyd Wright: The longer...

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
/Frank Lloyd Wright/

Michel de Montaigne: All the...

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
/Michel de Montaigne/

July 18, 2015

Arthur Rimbaud: Idle youth,...

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
/Arthur Rimbaud/

Arthur Schopenhauer: If people...

If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.
/Arthur Schopenhauer/

July 17, 2015

Louis Armstrong: What we...

What we play is life.
/Louis Armstrong/

Dag Hammarskjöld: Life yields...

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
/Dag Hammarskjöld/

July 15, 2015

Bill Watterson: A box...

A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
/Bill Watterson/

July 13, 2015

July 10, 2015

Kurt Vonnegut: Life happens...

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
/Kurt Vonnegut/

July 08, 2015

Mary McCarthy: ...friendship...is essential...

...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.
/Mary McCarthy/

July 07, 2015

Honore de Balzac: The man...

The man who can but sketch his purpose beforehand in words is regarded as a wonder, and every artist and writer possesses that faculty. But gestation, fruition, the laborious rearing of the offspring, putting it to bed every night full fed with milk, embracing it anew every morning with the inexhaustible affection of a mother's heart, licking it clean, dressing it a hundred times in the richest garb only to be instantly destroyed; then never to be cast down at the convulsions of this headlong life till the living masterpiece is perfected which in sculpture speaks to every eye, in literature to every intellect, in painting to every memory, in music to every heart! --this is the task of execution. The hand must be ready at every moment to work in obedience to the mind.
/Honore de Balzac/

July 06, 2015

Joshua Wolf Shenk: A glimpse...

A glimpse of any one moment in a life can be deeply misleading. A man at 20 who appears the model of altruism may turn out to be a kind of emotional prodigy-or he may be ducking the kind of engagement with reality that his peers are both moving toward and defending against. And, on the other extreme, a man at 20 who appears impossibly wounded may turn out to be gestating toward maturity.
/Joshua Wolf Shenk/

July 05, 2015

Joseph Campbell: Your life...

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
/Joseph Campbell/

July 04, 2015

Charlie Chaplin: Life is...

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
/Charlie Chaplin/

Philip Adams: It seems...

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
/Philip Adams/

July 03, 2015

Andy Garcia: Everything I...

Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.
/Andy Garcia/

Dante Alighieri: In the...

In the middle of the journey of our life<br>where the straight road had been lost sight of.
/Dante Alighieri/

July 02, 2015

Henri Lefebvre: In this...

In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.
/Henri Lefebvre/

Boris Yeltsin: There are...

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
/Boris Yeltsin/

July 01, 2015

Winston Churchill: The greatest...

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
/Winston Churchill/