143 quotes found
“To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.”
“It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.”
“Expect nothing and life will be velvet.”
“I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something I can do.”
“What is destructive is impatience haste expecting too much too fast.”
“[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love you can get a puppy.”
“If you expect perfection from other people your whole life is a series of disappointments grumbling and complaints. If on the contrary you pitch your expectations low taking folks as the ineff...”
“You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments then the wind blows your footprints away.”
“A pint can't hold a quart-if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.”
“If we are to survive on this planet there must be compromises.”
“Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.”
“What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.”
“You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to...”
“He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remaining brotherless.”
“Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts at them because they don't.”
“The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.”
“Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.”
“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.”
“Because you're not what I would have you be I blind myself to who in truth you are.”
“No one from the beginning of time has had security.”
