Life

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  • But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.
        Socrates   Best?
  • What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Today my spirit is going to school while my body stays in bed.
        Bill Watterson   Best?
  • Discretion is not the better part of biography.
        Lytton Strachey   Best?
  • Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
        Jean Baptiste Rousseau   Best?
  • Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
        William Ralph Inge   Best?
  • Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
        Pablo Picasso   Best?
  • You have brains in your head.
        Dr. Seuss   Best?
  • There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can!
        Henry Ford   Best?
  • We are the hero of our own story.
        Mary McCarthy   Best?
  • The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
        Ann Landers   Best?
  • Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
        Saint Augustine   Best?
  • Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Remember the generational battles twenty years ago? Remember all the screaming at the dinner table about haircuts, getting jobs and the American dream? Well, our parents won. They're out living the American dream on some damned golf course in Vero Beach, and we're stuck with the jobs and haircuts.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • PIG, n. An animal (_Porcus omnivorus_) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
        Mignon McLaughlin   Best?
  • The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
        Bible   Best?
  • It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • If it weren't for caffeine I'd have no personality whatsoever!
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • Living in a vacuum sucks.
        Adrienne Gusoff   Best?
  • In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
        Pliny the Elder   Best?
  • Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
        Dan Quayle   Best?
  • History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
        Leonard Louis Levinson   Best?
  • To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • When you are alone watch your thoughts; When at home with the wife and children watch your temper; and when in the world watch your tongue.
        John Hartley   Best?
  • I like to think that we are not outcasts, but rather normal people surrounded by the REAL outcasts, which I guess would make us outcasts of outcasts. But that is too confusing to go further with.
        Ida   Best?
  • Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.
        Anon   Best?
  • A good bet is still a gamble
        Steven Josephson   Best?
  • Most of us think ourselves as standing wearily and helplessly at the center of a circle bristling with tasks, burdens, problems, annoyance, and responsibilities which are rushing in upon us. At every moment we have a dozen different things to do, a dozen problems to solve, a dozen strains to endure. We see ourselves as overdriven, overburdened, overtired. This is a common mental picture and it is totally false. No one of us, however crowded his life, has such an existence. What is the true picture of your life? Imagine that there is an hour glass on your desk. Connecting the bowl at the top with the bowl at the bottom is a tube so thin that only one grain of sand can pass through it at a time. That is the true picture of your life, even on a super busy day, The crowded hours come to you always one moment at a time. That is the only way they can come. The day may bring many tasks, many problems, strains, but invariably they come in single file. You want to gain emotional poise? Remember the hourglass, the grains of sand dropping one by one.
        James Gordon Gilkey   Best?
  • The more you grumble at the world the less the world will think of you.
        John Hartley   Best?
  • The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.
        Boris Pasternak   Best?
  • Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.
        Joseph Addison   Best?

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