A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. —Rupert Brooke More about this quote Tags: love heart age kiss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. —Kurt Vonnegut More about this quote Tags: ignorance learning knowledge work effort resentment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: life health aging pleasure longevity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has. —Jeffrey Eugenides in Middlesex More about this quote Tags: acceptance perception seeing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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