Life

Desire

"A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs." Mark Twain, Following the Equator US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 -...

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Happiness

"I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them." E. V....

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Past

"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there." Herb...

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"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard Danish philosopher (1813 -...

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Life

"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." David...

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"The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing." Michael E....

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Science

"If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered." Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005 English cosmologist and physicist (1942 -...

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A Serbian Proverb

"Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars." Serbian...

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Life

"There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by." Annie Dillard, The Writing...

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Life & Education

"We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it." Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January...

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Life & Love

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." Arthur Rubinstein US (Polish-born) composer & pianist (1886 -...

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Life Wisdom

"It’s not the critic that counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena." Theodor...

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Courage & Persistence

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right." Ralph Waldo...

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Direction

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." George Harrison, "Any Road", Brainwashed, 2002 English singer & songwriter (1943 -...

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Life

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living." Gail...

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Etiquette

"Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary US author & satirist (1842 -...

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Knowledge

"Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life." Helen...

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