Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed. —Robert J. Sawyer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright. —Oprah Winfrey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives' tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay, you can only know them if you have lived them. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days. —Jane Austen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. —Mother Jones More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse. —Brian Eno More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. —Golda Meir More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The beginning is always today. —Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The way to final freedom is within thy self. —The Book of the Golden Precepts More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try. —Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there. —Belle Livingstone More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Just because it's only 'stuff' doesn't mean I can't appreciate it while I have it. —Starline X. Hodge More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be. —Lillian Hellman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. —Madeleine L'Engle More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned. —Gautama Buddha More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email