Neale Donald Walsch: As told...

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.
/Neale Donald Walsch/

Sean O'Casey: Wealth often...

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
/Sean O'Casey/

Jesse Ventura: The Constitution...

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
/Jesse Ventura/

Isabelle Eberhardt: A nomad...

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.
/Isabelle Eberhardt/

Samuel Johnson: Life cannot...

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
/Samuel Johnson/

Roger von Oech: Either you...

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.
/Roger von Oech/

Bo Jackson: My workout...

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
/Bo Jackson/

Robert Walpole: IT has...

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.
/Robert Walpole/

Heywood Hale Broun: The tragedy...

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
/Heywood Hale Broun/

Mary Catherine Bateson: Wherever a...

Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one pattern to another: a potential translation in which narrative becomes parable and the once upon a time comes to stand for some renascent truth. This approach applies to all the incidents of everyday life: the phrase in the newspaper, the endearing or infuriating game of a toddler, the misunderstanding at the office. Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
/Mary Catherine Bateson/

Wallace Stevens: I can't...

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure.
/Wallace Stevens/

John Mortimer: I refuse...

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
/John Mortimer/

Oswald Chambers: We are...

We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.
/Oswald Chambers/

George Santayana: Happiness is...

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
/George Santayana/

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Men and...

Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect...Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.
/Jean-Jacques Rousseau/