We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
~quote about Happiness by Charles Kingsley
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He is more particular.... The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
~quotes on Parenting by Robert Frost
The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both
~sayings on Education by Zen Buddhist
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
~quotations on Adversity by Jean Paul Richter
But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
~quotes on life love and friends by Alan Watts
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
~saying about life friends by John Bulwer
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
~quote about Food by Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story
When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best
~quotes on Adversity by Leslie Grossman
Tears are Summer showers to the soul.
~sayings on Crying by Alfred Austin, Savonarola
People seldom improve unless they have models greater than themselves. Adopt a few.
~quotations on Self Improvement by
Money for me has only one sound: liberty
~quotes on life love and friends by Gabrielle Chanel
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
~saying about life friends by Honore de Balzac, The Physiology of Marriage
Before you can begin to cook up success, you have to realize that you’re the chef. Whether you cook up a three-star Michelin meal or an inedible mess, it all comes down to you!
~quote about Success by Nisandeh Neta
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing
~quotes on Motivation by Harriet Braiker
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
~sayings on Statistics by Joe Stalin, comment to Churchill at Potsdam, 1945
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
~quotations on Humorous by Douglas Adams
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
~quotes on life love and friends by Anatole France
The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.
~saying about life friends by Emma Goldman, Anarchism
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.
~quote about Parenting by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
~quotes on Perspective by Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
~sayings on Fate by William McFee
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
~quotations on Baseball by Roy Campanella
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind
~quotes on life love and friends by Dr. Seuss
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
~saying about life friends by Minnie Aumonier
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
~quote about Being Yourself by Benjamin Disraeli
One thing kids like is to be trickedFor instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse"Oh, no," I said"Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thoug
~quotes on April Fool's Day by Jack Handey
I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.
~sayings on Dancing by George Balanchine
Black holes are when God tried to divide by zero.
~quotations on Humor by unknown
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
~quotes on life love and friends by John Burroughs
As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
~saying about life friends by Zachary Scott
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
~quote about Art by Oscar Wilde
Where liberty dwells, there is my country
~quotes on Patriotic by Benjamin Franklin
Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.
~sayings on Goals by Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
~quotations on Food by Robert Byrne
I shut my eyes in order to see. Paul Gauguin
~quotes on life love and friends by Paul Gauguin
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
~saying about life friends by Steven Wright
I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.
~quote about Food by Heywood Broun
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
~quotes on Poetry by G.K. Chesterton
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