Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.NOTE: this is a proverb that is traced back to Proverbs in Scot by J. Carmichael (1628)

James Halliwell, Nursery Rhymes

And by the way, if I always tell you the truth, you might start to believe me.

Victor L. Wooten

Good luck beats early rising.

Proverb

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Herman Melville

Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.

Katharine McPhee

Each day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

John Burns

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

Ellen DeGeneres

I'm pleased to say my knee feels a lot better. It's still not back to normal, and I don't know if it ever will be, but I'm learning to deal with it instead of expecting it to be like it was before.

Shawn Johnson

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Lydia M. Child

I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

Tammy Faye Bakker