Can't win Quote by James C. Collins

“... there is nothing harder in life than to not conform to the common life of humanity; to be an exception, to be different…

— Violette Nakhjavani

“The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another; it is…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Nature teaches us lessons that no book can teach. It teaches us that there is always inequality in life. Just look at the animals…

— Mouloud Benzadi

“man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified… Religion or crime, every human…

— Albert Camus

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in…

— Mark Twain

Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that…

— Anita Shreve

“We truly have no idea what goes on in people's lives. Any comparison we make to them is based on our perception of who…

— Merrilee Boyack

“People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities. – Linda Ellerbee”

— Linda Ellerbee

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

— Oscar Wilde

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Much in life is simply a matter of perspective. It's not inherently good or bad, a success or failure; it's how we choose to…

— David Niven

“Comparison is often why our important roles shrink to seem so insignificant. Comparison robs us of the joy of obedience.”

— Jennie Allen