"Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
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One of the things that I find so exciting about life is that you're constantly surprised. You never know what's going to… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
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Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Darkness is the absence of light. Happiness is the absence of pain. Anger is the absence of joy. Jealousy is the absence… — Jess Bowen Copy Share Image
It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly… — Christos Tsiolkas Copy Share Image
Aretha Franklin's 'Let Me in Your Life' is one of the few recent R&B albums that places the emphasis entirely and deservedly… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
You're right. And so was my snake." Snake?" He pulled my arm out to expose my bracelet. "When I carved this my… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
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You want to know, but are afraid to ask, whether or not I found someone. If there could be anyone to fill… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
Life is too precious to be a spectator sport. We are no longer merely fans, rooting for the winning team. We are… — Vicki Robin Copy Share Image
Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way… — Nicholas Evans Copy Share Image
For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
Part of life and part of the enjoyment of life is a croissant and a chocolate cake and eggs and milkshakes and… — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The point of life is not to get anywhere—it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there. You… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
There is no remainder in the mathematics of infinity. All life is one; therefore, there cannot be God and man, nor a… — Nyogen Senzaki Copy Share Image
Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words… — Obert Skye Copy Share Image
What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
![“It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.” quote by Alain de Botton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b34/alain-de-botton-221_accepting_it-is-not-just-nature-that-defies-us-hum_2567295.jpg)
