It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. —E.L. Doctorow More about this quote Tags: life driving headlights Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal in life is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed. The fact is that most putts don't drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, and most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old-time rail journey — delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally with beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. The trick is to thank God for letting you have the ride. —Jenkin Lloyd Jones More about this quote Tags: life boredom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No group or class should be freed from doing the toil of the culture. One of our current problems is that there are too many people who simply have no idea how much unpleasant, tedious, and repetitive work is required to support their "high-level" activities, and how ineffective they would be without the effort of those they all too often disdain. —Robert Theobold More about this quote Tags: work toil Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. —Tennessee Williams More about this quote Tags: life struggle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is not hard work which is dreary; it is superficial work. —Edith Hamilton More about this quote Tags: work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application. —Paul William Gallico More about this quote Tags: work concentration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. —Alfred D. Souza More about this quote Tags: life business obstacles debt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I hold myself to be incapable of hating any being on earth. By a long course of prayerful discipline, I have ceased for over forty years to hate anybody. I know this is a big claim. Nevertheless, I make it in all humility. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: hate Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. —Maxine Hong Kingston More about this quote Tags: mind learning universe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers. And my neighbors came to behold them, and they all said to me, "When autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give us of the seeds of these flowers that we may have them in our gardens?" —Kahlil Gibran More about this quote Tags: sorrow Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Kindness is in our power, but fondness is not. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: kindness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own. —Mother Teresa More about this quote Tags: hunger love wealth belonging Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
hatred bounces. —e. e. cummings More about this quote Tags: hatred Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him or to him. —Thomas Edison More about this quote Tags: power character Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email