- William A. Ward
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you”?
Mark Twain
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig
- Griff Niblack
If you’re yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning
- Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value
- John Lubbock
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- Agnes DeMille
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
- Wayne Dyer
It's never crowded along the extra mile
- Kobi Yamada
Sometimes you have to take the leap,
and build your wings on the way down
- James Leo Herlihy
Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong
- Thomas Szasz
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
- T.S. Eliot
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go
- Robert M. Pirsig
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top
- John Stuart Mill
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them
- Zora Neale Hurston
There are years that ask questions, and years that answer
- William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
- Dennis Wholey
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
Stephen King
If you don't have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?
- e.e. cummings
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are
- R.H. Grenville
In pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up
Mahatma Gandhi
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always.
Douglas Adams
My capacity for happiness, you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first
Douglas Adams
Despite the fact that he had been thinking he was feeling about as low as he possibly could, he experienced a terrible sinking feeling
Douglas Adams
He looked around for the others. They obstinately persisted in their absence
Douglas Adams
Arthur woke up and instantly regretted it
Douglas Adams
There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind
Anon
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair
~ Soren Kierkegaard
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.
~ Serge Daney
In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.
~ Simone Weil
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.