310 quotes found
“Human beings can learn valuable lessons in conservation of necessary personal resources for accomplishing the fundamental tenants of life by observing a judiciously paced turtle determinedly and st...”
“Every man must find his own philosophy, his attitude towards life.”
“Neither right nor wrong. It is all manipulation of thoughts.”
“What does Malcolm have to worry about?" JB would ask them when Malcolm was anxious about something, but he knew: he was worried because to be alive was to worry. Life was scary; it was unknowable. ...”
“A successful life is sharing things with others.It teaches us to take care for others.”
“You are meant to lose the people you love. How else would you know how important they are to you?”
“She wanted to say, I am made of smoke. My mind is smoke, my thoughts are smoke, I am all smoke and only smoke. This body is a garment I put on, which by my magic art I have made capable of function...”
“You areBut why?”
“Where has Arnold been? I said. ... the Westwoods get in the papers.Patting the orphans.Getting homes for the homeless.Legs for the legless. She was laughing as she said it.Blind dogs, I said. Dogs ...”
“Because I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace.”
“By simplifying our lives, we rediscover our child-like stalk of innocents that reconnects us with the central resin of our innate humanity that knows truth and goodness. To see the world through a ...”
“I see that you have come to the last stage of human life; you are close upon your hundreth year, or even beyond: come now, hold an audit of your life. Reckon how much of your time has been taken up...”
“Every page turnedshould be the page read”
“Since capitalism is a system based of the love of money,doesn't that make it the root of all evil?”
“To pretend is to know oneself.”
“I want to say this to every stepmother: take it a little easier, try not to be so insistent, try not to have your desires dominateand not just with the stepchildren, but with your husband, your fam...”
“The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philoso...”
“When you are so insignificant your choices don't really matter, the waves you create are like grain of sand landing in the ocean.”
“Every day of our lives, we create a poetical statement of our being the locus of emotions that we call the soul by how we think, act, and express opinions and sentiments. Our interlinked verses m...”
“Because I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace." Pax, Pennypacker.”
