Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
—Joseph Addison
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Friday, July 04, 2014
Friday, June 27, 2014
Monday, May 19, 2014
Monday, April 28, 2014
Post #1535
We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts not breaths ; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs ; he most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
—P. J. Bailey
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Post #1497
Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.
—Joseph Addison
—Joseph Addison
Friday, December 20, 2013
Post #1440
They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such who have lived to no purpose,—who have rather breathed than lived.
—Lord Clarendon
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Post #1416
Life is a mission. Every other description of life is false, and leads all who accept it astray. Religion, science, philosophy, though still at variance upon many points, all agree in this, that every existence is an aim.
—Giuseppe Mazzini
—Giuseppe Mazzini
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Post #1383
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgement difficult.
—Hippocrates
Sunday, September 08, 2013
Post #1337
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty: let him rise early, that he may have the day before him; and let him make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintance only; those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learnt.
—Charles Caleb Colton
—Charles Caleb Colton
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Post #1298
There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.
—Jules Renard
—Jules Renard
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Post #1278
If you live as nature bids you, you will never be poor; if to obtain the good report of men, you will never be rich.
—Seneca
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Post #1147
A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward, to reset oneself by an inner compass.
—May Sarton
—May Sarton
Monday, December 24, 2012
Saturday, September 08, 2012
Post #1054
Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
—Robert Louis Stevenson
—Robert Louis Stevenson
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Post #1005
Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.
—from "Heat" (film).
—from "Heat" (film).
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Post #992
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.
—Benjamin Franklin
—Benjamin Franklin
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Friday, June 22, 2012
Post #985
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
—Alfred Korzybski
—Alfred Korzybski
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Post #970
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
—Robert M. Pirsig
—Robert M. Pirsig
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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