Favorite quotes

There are two ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so.

 

"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."
-- Augusten Burroughs

 

Dost thou love life?
Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin

 

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharal Nehru

 

Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.
Alexis

 

Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently.
Palladas

 

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
Thomas Fuller

 

Life is like a library owned by the author.
In it are a few books which he wrote himself,
but most of them were written for him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

 

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
Elbert Hubbard

 

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
Plutarch

 

The boundaries which divide life from death
are at best shadowy and vague.
Who shall say where one ends,
and the other begins?
Edgar Alan Poe

 

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

One way to get the most out of life is
to look upon it as an adventure.
William Feather

 

One life - a little gleam of time between two eternities.
Thomas Carlyle

 

As I grow to understand life less and less,
I learn to love it more and more.
Jules Renard

 

To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."
Edward Bulwer Lytton

 

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher

 

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes

 

First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

 

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier