Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. —Benjamin Disraeli More about this quote Tags: action happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. —Charles Kuralt More about this quote Tags: USA navigation food Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. —Robert A. Heinlein More about this quote Tags: progress achievement laziness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. —Edward R. Murrow More about this quote Tags: politics television Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated. —Jeph Jacques More about this quote Tags: education Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life can be about taking chances and finding really great things and yes, failing sometimes. Or it can be about wondering what if because you never dared to try. —Lauren Dane in Giving Chase More about this quote Tags: life risk failure chances trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. —Abraham Joshua Heschel More about this quote Tags: dignity discipline self-respect Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. —Willa Cather More about this quote Tags: relationship intimacy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. —Joan Baez More about this quote Tags: relationships intimacy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for. —Mandy Hale in The Single Woman More about this quote Tags: sadness settling heartbreak Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. —William James More about this quote Tags: philosophy philosophers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. —Charlotte Bronte More about this quote Tags: life hatred envy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: writing meaning art criticism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whenever you are too worried about someone else’s approval, that person loses respect for you. —Sherry Argov in Why Men Marry Bitches More about this quote Tags: respect approval Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything has been figured out, except how to live. —Jean-Paul Sartre More about this quote Tags: life knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email