September 16, 2011

Soren Kierkegaard: Life is...

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
/Soren Kierkegaard/

September 15, 2011

Constantine Karamanlis: You do...

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.
/Constantine Karamanlis/

September 13, 2011

Edith Wharton: There is...

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
/Edith Wharton/

George P. Baker: The drama...

The drama is a great revealer of life.
/George P. Baker/

September 12, 2011

Leverett Saltonstall: I personally...

I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.
/Leverett Saltonstall/

September 11, 2011

Hector Elizondo: I've dodged...

I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.
/Hector Elizondo/

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Those are...

Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other.
/Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe/

Donna Tartt: Character, to...

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.
/Donna Tartt/

September 09, 2011

Christian Bale: I've had...

I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.
/Christian Bale/

September 08, 2011

Rita Rudner: I love...

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
/Rita Rudner/

September 07, 2011

Alan Ladd: What good...

What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?
/Alan Ladd/

September 06, 2011

Marcus Aurelius: In the...

In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his senses a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, and his fame doubtful. In short, all that is of the body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapours; life a warfare, a brief sojourning in an alien land; and after repute, oblivion. Where, then, can man find the power to guide and guard his steps? In one thing and one alone: the love of knowledge.
/Marcus Aurelius/

September 03, 2011

Donna Tartt: But romantic...

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
/Donna Tartt/

September 01, 2011

Grandma Moses: Life is...

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
/Grandma Moses/

Richard Bach: Your only...

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
/Richard Bach/