Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
VoltaireA part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
Brian EnoMendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.
Tennessee WilliamsA man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
ChanakyaAll leaders in the Lord’s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.
Russell M. NelsonThree grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph AddisonWhen death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
George EliotEverything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul SartreIt is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Hermann HesseIt is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Fyodor DostoevskyDeath will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Katharine HepburnIn business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest HemingwayIn every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Thomas CarlyleWhy are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.
Stephen HawkingDeath and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
ConfuciusThere are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Mark TwainWhat makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
George EliotTalking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
Joseph AddisonI don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.
David BowieThere is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
James BaldwinIf life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
Wayne DyerThe greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William JamesThe feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.
Kurt VonnegutLife is anything but predictable.
Dwayne JohnsonIt’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
Dan QuayleWhen you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus AureliusSuch as we are made of, such we be.
William ShakespeareMy friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.
Cristiano RonaldoOn account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will RogersWhether for life or death, do your own work well.
John RuskinTime is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
Margaret AtwoodWrite down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Francis BaconThe world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace ThackerayThe post of honour is a private station.
Joseph AddisonIt takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
Warren BuffettThe career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao TzuLife is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
Stephen KingIt is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
John RuskinArt’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.
Frank OceanThinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
PlatoTo me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Isaac NewtonIf we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya AngelouThe woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert FrostI have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
VoltaireWhy should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William JamesA tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie ChaplinThere are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody AllenYou use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard ShawThere is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
John F. KennedyMusic is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Henry David ThoreauIt is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
Abraham LincolnHow happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.
Alexander the GreatWork is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. ForbesI love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da VinciI remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.
Harry S. TrumanIn the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus AureliusI made my fair share of mistakes.
Arnold Schwarzenegger