The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Force is not a remedy.
John Bright
If this phrase of the balance of power is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.
One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.
Tony Bright
If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
Edgar Sheffield Brightman
No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
I have a feeling this is destiny. On the eve of her third marriage
Christie Brinkley
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
Arthur Brisbane
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want to get in.
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
Deepak Chopra
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.
Annie Dillard
We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet
Annie Dillard, Total Eclipse Tea
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
Nancy Astor, In Hammer and Tongu
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
Jane Fonda
Compromise, hell! ... If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?
Senator Jesse Helms
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it will be caused by religion. I count Prohibition as a part of religion, for it has surely become so in the United States. The Prohibitionists, seeing all their other arguments destroyed by the logic of events, have fallen back upon the mystical doctrine that God is somehow on their side, and that opposing them thus takes on the character of blasphemy.http://www.mencken.org/text/txt001/elliott.leo.1998.mencken-01.htm
H. L. Mencken, The Impending Com
Life is a journey, not a destination - we determine our destiny by the direction we take.
Anon.
I will remember always that marriage, like life, is a journey - not a destination - and that its treasures are found not just at the end but all along the way.
The real thing is not the goal, the real thing is the beauty of the movement. The real thing is not reaching, the real thing is the journey. Remember, the real thing is the journey, the very traveling. It is so beautiful, why bother about the goal? And if you are too bothered about the goal, you will miss the journey, and the journey is life - the goal can only be death.
Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]
The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning one's self and life, and gradual growth of that understanding, which begins a spiritual awakening. The finding of God is coming to one's self.
Aldous Huxley, found attributed
So you set out to travel to Rome... and end up in Istanbul. You set off for Japan... and you end up on a train across Siberia. The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder.
Loreena McKennitt
WHAT IS LIFE?Life is an Adventure ... Dare itLife is a Beauty ... Praise itLife is a Challenge ... Meet itLife is a Duty ... Perform itLife is a Love ... Enjoy itLife is a Tragedy ... Face itLife is a Struggle ... Fight itLife is a Promise ... Fulfill itLife is a Game ... Play itLife is a Gift ... Accept itLife is a Journey ... Complete itLife is a Mystery ... Unfold itLife is a Goal ... Achieve itLife is an Opportunity ... Take itLife is a Puzzle ... Solve itLife is a Song ... Sing itLife is a Sorrow ... Overcome itLife is a Spirit ... Realize it
Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.
William Butler Yeats, The Windin
The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.
Barbara de Angelis
It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
Joseph Conrad
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad.
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Be quick to learn and wise to know.
George Burns
Life's but a day at most.
Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Robert Burns
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