The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started. —John Updike More about this quote Tags: world culture ending continuation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. —Albert Ellis More about this quote Tags: life problems blame control destiny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. —Sylvia Plath More about this quote Tags: existence heart listening breathing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: being identity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. —Doug Larson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? —Logan Smith More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. —Robert Fulghum More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I read about a man who'd been sentenced to die, saying or thinking, the hour before his death, that even if he had to live an ocean somewhere high up on a rock . . . with all around precipices, an ocean, an endless murk, endless solitude and endless storms — and had to stand there, on those two feet of space, all his life, for a thousand years, eternity — that it would be better to live like that than to die so very soon! If only he could live, live, and live! Never mind what that life was like! As long as he could live! —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us. —Mary Baker Eddy More about this quote Tags: change sorrow reward Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Joy, happiness . . . we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections, . . . to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness, to some extent, isolates. —May Sarton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Perhaps this is why it is man alone who laughs: he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. —Friedrich Nietzsche More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I bear a little more than I can bear. —Elinor Hoyt Wylie More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. —Mother Teresa More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves. —Italian proverb More about this quote Tags: optimism fire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. —Hubert Humphrey More about this quote Tags: action loss remains Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email