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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/