The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter. —Shalom Aleichem More about this quote Tags: perception perspective enjoyment food parable Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be on to something. Not to be on to something is to be in despair. —Walker Percy More about this quote Tags: life sadness searching quotidian Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair. —Deshimaru More about this quote Tags: life dedication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In a sense, we are all crashing to our death from the top story of our birth to the flat stones of the churchyard and wondering with an immortal Alice in Wonderland at the patterns of the passing wall. —Vladimir Nabokov More about this quote Tags: attention death birth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Master Shaku Soen liked to take an evening stroll through a nearby village. One day he heard loud lamentations from a house and, on entering quietly, realized that the householder had died and the family and neighbors were crying. He sat down and cried with them. An old man noticed him and remarked, rather shaken on seeing the famous master crying with them, "I would have thought that you at least were beyond such things." "But it is this which puts me beyond it," replied the master with a sob. —Irmgard Schloegl More about this quote Tags: wisdom sadness feelings Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. —Pearl Bailey More about this quote Tags: love humor need paperwork Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It’s not fair but then much of life isn’t fair. It’s how you live that matters. It’s how you deal with the bumps in the road. —Maya Banks in Echoes at Dawn More about this quote Tags: life coping fairness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. —Euripides More about this quote Tags: strength necessity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: humor freedom reason Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. —Robertson Davies More about this quote Tags: life reading memory aging Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you’re doing, where you are, who you’re with, and if you’re OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and protect you from your fears. You need someone who will treat you with respect, love every part of you, especially your flaws. You should be with someone who could make you happy, really happy, dancing on air happy. —Cecelia Ahern in Love, Rosie More about this quote Tags: love relationships happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The right man is the one who seizes the moment. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More about this quote Tags: action power Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. —Audrey Hepburn More about this quote Tags: love generousity affection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. —Bob Hope More about this quote Tags: age middle age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. —George Jackson More about this quote Tags: patience cowardice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email