“I cannot make my days longer. So I strive to make them better.”
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“That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
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“Silence alone is worthy to be heard.”
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/29/be-kind/
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
“Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.”
“You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.”
Sex and the City
“But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most.”
Mark Twain's Autobiography, p117
“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”
“Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
“I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.”
“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.”
“I am a child of God, an inheritor of a fragment of the mind that created all worlds.”
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
Last Dance. Book.
“Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by.”
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73
“I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I have found myself, my work and my God.”
“A man is literally what he thinks.”
“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.”
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
“It will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.”
The Unnamable, 1954. Book.
“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, d--n lies, and statistics.”
“Simplify, simplify.”
Walden; or, Life in the Woods. 1854. Book.