All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

Gilbert Murray

If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.

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If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

You must warn people not to make the intellect their God. The intellect knows methods but it seldom knows values, and they come from feeling. If one doesn't play a part in the creative whole, he is not worth being called human. He has betrayed his true purpose.

Albert Einstein

Without love in you life, you have nothing.

Wynonna Judd

Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory...Everything is forgotten, even great love.

Albert Camus

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. On filming MacHale's Navy

Bruce Campbell

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

John Boorman

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively

Voltaire

We start our sometimes tedious, sometimes exciting, often times sad and stressful march to the grave the moment we're born, so it might as well be a march worth remembering.

Donna Lynn Hope