Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It’s like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It’s like sitting in a racing car but not driving it.
If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.
Mastering time isn’t about stopping time, rather, slowing down its effects.
Always blow your own trumpet, blowing someone else’s is unhygienic
Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
I’ve come to believe that in everyone’s life, there’s one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.
And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn’t stop.
To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted.
No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat’s cradle is nothing but a bunch of X’s between somebody’s hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X’s . . . And? No damn cat, and no damn cradle.
I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As if he could just turn up, like a sock or a set of keys.
Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn’t seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.
Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT.
We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
In the now, the wanderer mind finds a purpose. Like a wayward ship finally dropping anchor in a tranquil bay, it experiences respite. The now, the simple reality of what is, serves as a beacon, illuminating the path for the wanderer. When the mind ceases to roam and learns to reside in the present, it finds itself not in a barren wasteland, but in a fertile ground where the seeds of intention can be sown, where the fruits of action can be reaped.
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
This, in the end, is the prime purpose of a philosophy: to give us lucid ways to think about the world and how to live in it.
Anti-Time Management is the gift your family wants most from you this year.
I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I’ve tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
Illegal none disclosure agreement? Time for a visit to the police and a press release!
There is no Space or TimeOnly intensity, And tame thingsHave no immensity
Everything we want to do in life requires discipline. And like strength, flexibility, and endurance, it can be built up over time.
An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.
Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn’t what romantic songs tell us it is – love simply is.
There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.
Girls are always saying things like, “I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,” but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.
To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best.
I think about dying every day, because I can’t stop thinking about living.
There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.
No matter your religion, philosophy, or political beliefs, violence is not the way to achieve peace.
A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character which compels the admiration of all classes.
My girlfriend would spend most of her time talking about her problems and not our problems at couples therapy. It was like sitting in on her personal therapy session.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away. Puzzling.
It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.
But she’s wrong about hell. You don’t have to wait until you’re dead to get there.
Darkling I listen; and, for many a timeI have been half in love with easeful Death…
When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
People don’t ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can’t eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.
He gave a dark chuckle. “But you’re not, so you had absolutely no qualms about kneeing me in the groin, right?”“I hit your thigh!”“Oh, please. A man doesn’t need that long to recover from a knee to the thigh,” he replied, his voice full of skepticism.
You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I’m not even brave enough for that
It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle…. Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)
He was both everything I could ever want…
And nothing I could ever have…
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not in love, one is love. And of course when one is love, one is in love – but that is an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love.
The grave’s a fine and private place,But none, I think, do there embrace.
Kill you all! The clown was laughing and screaming. Try to stop me and I’ll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can’t stop me!