Be Grateful
"Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others' lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
- - Elizabeth Hailey, "A Woman of Independent Means"
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I'm happy about the things I've done. Not always happy about the results, but happy about the decisions, because I made them myself. And I think that's an important way to go through life.
I'm happy about the things I've done. Not always happy about the results, but happy about the decisions, because I made them myself. And I think that's an important way to go through life.
- Kevin Costner
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
- Thomas Moore
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
- Thomas Moore, Irish poet (1779 - 1852)By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.
- Charles Luckman
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
- Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
What happens when the future has come and gone?
- Robert Half
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
"You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future." – Chuck Palahniuk
"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
– Jules Renard
"I stand in awe of my body." – Henry David Thoreau
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." – John Muir
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
- Dick Cavett (1936 - )
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something.
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
"Even writers need relief from words."
– Sarah Vowell
"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far."
– Thomas Jefferson
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."
– William Blake
"One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes."
– Friedrich Nietzsche
"The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them."
– Lois McMaster Bujold
"Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing."
– David march
"Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One."
– Benjamin Franklin
"Everyone has his burden; what counts is how you carry it."
- Jon Smith
"The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone."
– Thomas H. Huxley
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." – Anne Frank
"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
– William Cowper
"Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place."
- Bob Davis
"Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid."
– Publilius Syrus
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