We have two lives — the one we learn with and the life we live after that. —Bernard Malamud More about this quote Tags: life learning change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force. —Carl Jung More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones. —Marguerite de Valois More about this quote Tags: virtue Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation. Virtue is just temptation, overcome. —Margaret Deland More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
[From an interview in Playboy] I guarantee you heaven isn't in Miss March's pussy. . . . Heaven is on the other side of that feeling you get when you're sitting on the couch and you get up to make a triple decker sandwich. It's on the other side of that, when you don't make the sandwich. It's about sacrifice. . . . It's about giving up the things that basically keep you from feeling. That's what I believe, anyway. I'm always asking, "What am I going to give up next?" Because I want to feel. —Jim Carrey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do not take drugs — I am drugs. —Salvador Dali More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. —C. P. Snow More about this quote Tags: happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered. —Alice Caldwell Rice More about this quote Tags: happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All sins are attempts to fill voids. —Simone Weil More about this quote Tags: sin desire need emptiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners — your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards — who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. —Thornton Wilder More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have every sympathy with the American [smoker] who was so horrified by what he had read of the effects of smoking that he gave up reading. —Henry G. Strauss More about this quote Tags: humor reading health danger smoking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've been writing a book for years. It's called Horses That Owe Me Money, and I haven't come to the end of it yet. —Sophie Tucker More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They [slot machines] sit there like courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires filled, all lusts satiated. —Frank Scoblete More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ninety percent of [my salary] I spent on booze and women, and the other 10 percent I wasted. —Tug McGraw More about this quote Tags: women alcohol waste Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email