August 31, 2016

August 30, 2016

Shakti Gawain: When I'm...

When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
/Shakti Gawain/

Michel de Montaigne: We are...

We are great fools: He has spent his life in idleness. We say, I have done nothing today. Really, have you not lived? This is not only the most fundamental but the most illustrious of your occupations… Have you been able to think about and manage your life? You have managed the greatest burden of all… To compose our nature is our responsibility, not to write books. To gain order and tranquility, not to win battles and provinces, is our goal. Our grand and glorious masterpiece is to live suitably.
/Michel de Montaigne/

August 27, 2016

Larisa Oleynik: I don't...

I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.
/Larisa Oleynik/

August 26, 2016

John Masefield: In this...

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
/John Masefield/

Twyla Tharp: My mother...

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
/Twyla Tharp/

August 25, 2016

Ayn Rand: This is...

This is the difference between my morality and hedonism. The standard is not: that is good which gives me pleasure, just because it gives me pleasure (which is the standard of the dipsomaniac or the sex-chaser)—but that is good which is the expression of my moral values, and that gives me pleasure. Since the proper moral code is based on man's nature and his survival, and since joy is the expression of his survival, this form of happiness can have no contradiction in it, it is both 'short range' and 'long range' (as all of man's life has to be), and it leads to the furtherance of his life, not to his destruction.
/Ayn Rand/

August 22, 2016

Liberty Hyde Bailey: My life...

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.
/Liberty Hyde Bailey/

August 21, 2016

Michel de Montaigne: There is...

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging 10 times in his life.
/Michel de Montaigne/

August 16, 2016

George Bernard Shaw: In the...

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
/George Bernard Shaw/

August 15, 2016

Lois Wyse: A good...

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
/Lois Wyse/

Colette: Total absence...

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
/Colette/

August 14, 2016

Abraham Cahan: If it...

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
/Abraham Cahan/

Minnie Maddern Fiske: Their rebukes...

Their rebukes have never made me angry, because I have always wondered why they did not rebuke me more. They should have. Their friendly praise has been one of the sweetest, most warming things in my life in the theater. I do go on the stage unafraid of them and with love in my heart for them.
/Minnie Maddern Fiske/

August 13, 2016

Christiaan Barnard: I don't...

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
/Christiaan Barnard/

David Steindl-Rast: Sometimes people...

Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being.
/David Steindl-Rast/

Penelope Keith: I think...

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.
/Penelope Keith/

August 11, 2016

Mason Cooley: The routines...

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
/Mason Cooley/

August 10, 2016

Emeril Lagasse: I guess...

I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake.
/Emeril Lagasse/

Nicolas de Chamfort: Contemplation often...

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
/Nicolas de Chamfort/

August 08, 2016

Agnetha Faltskog: When I'm...

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!
/Agnetha Faltskog/

August 05, 2016

Robert Powell: Make your...

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.
/Robert Powell/

August 04, 2016

Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The man...

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
/Edward Bulwer-Lytton/

Andy Warhol: People need...

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
/Andy Warhol/

Pindar: Seek not,...

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.
/Pindar/

August 02, 2016

Henry David Thoreau: Our whole...

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
/Henry David Thoreau/

Joseph Brodsky: What should...

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
/Joseph Brodsky/

Luis Palau: When you...

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.
/Luis Palau/

August 01, 2016

Luis Bunuel: All my...

All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.
/Luis Bunuel/

Karl Jaspers: Only then,...

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
/Karl Jaspers/

Oscar Wilde: Life would...

Life would be dull without them.
/Oscar Wilde/

Artie Lange: When I...

When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.
/Artie Lange/

Gregg Easterbrook: But by...

But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.
/Gregg Easterbrook/