May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. —Robert A. Heinlein More about this quote Tags: love hope live blessing wish Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming. —W. C. Fields More about this quote Tags: health habit water Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: philosophy knowledge certainty doubt teeth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That life … that she had complained against, had murmured at, had raged at and defied — nonetheless she had loved it so, joyed in it so, both in good days and evil, that not one day had there been when it would not have seemed hard to give it back to God, nor one grief that she could have forgone without regret. —Sigrid Undsetfs More about this quote Tags: life God regret grief rage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One of Vladimir de Pachmann's favorite tricks before a recital was to play about with the piano stool, adjusting and readjusting it, until the audience became desperate. Then he would rush into the wings to fetch a large book, place it on the seat, and try that. He would indicate that all was still not satisfactory and would tear one page from the book and try again. —Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: humor audience piano manipulation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances; to choose one's own way. —Viktor Frankl More about this quote Tags: power freedom choice attitude control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death. —J. P. Donleavy More about this quote Tags: hunger health money death sex food Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many of us have no long-range vision in much of our struggle. We think only of the moment, this time, this place, this circumstance. But think of the ten generations of children that inherit love, and their children, and theirs. … Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed? —Stephen Covey More about this quote Tags: love time future vision children struggle place Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret. —Mary McCarthy More about this quote Tags: action knowledge morality regret bad good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A person who believes … that there is a whole of which one is part, and that in being a part, one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it. —Ursula K. Le Guin More about this quote Tags: God belief desire denial Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: hope darkness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Acceptance is hard. To accept my pain means holding it in my arms, like a package handed to me, my proper burden to be carried. The package may be heavy as lead, or burning hot, or stuck through with razors, but I must concede that it is my package, simply because it has arrived in my life. It is not a mistake. It has not been sent by accident to the wrong person. I may not welcome it, but accepting it means I carry it without protest for as long as necessary — and then I lay it down. —Jeanne Duprau More about this quote Tags: acceptance mistakes pain Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Tolstoy's illness dried him up, burnt something out of him. Inwardly he seemed to become lighter, more transparent, more resigned. His eyes are still keen, his glance piercing. He listens attentively, as though recalling something which he has forgotten, or as though waiting for something new and unknown. —Maxim Gorky More about this quote Tags: history illness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man lives with himself for seventy years, and doesn't know who he is. —Israel Salanter Lipkin More about this quote Tags: life knowledge self-knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I recently invented a new theory: ambitheism. This is the doctrine that God both does and doesn't exist. I have noticed that when I try to believe in God, I am filled with sudden moments of despair that God is absent, but when I try to be an atheist, I slowly come to believe in a divine will. Thus, I have concluded that both ideas are true. God simultaneously is and isn't. —Michael Gorelick More about this quote Tags: truth God belief despair divinity atheism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email