How many a poor immortal soul have I met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it a barn seventy-five feet by forty, its Augean stables never cleansed, and one hundred acres of land, tillage, mowing, pasture, and wood-lot. The portionless, who struggle with no such unnecessary inherited encumbrances, find it labor enough to subdue and cultivate a few cubic feet of flesh.
Henry David ThoreauTags: life
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
Henry David ThoreauBut better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Khaled HosseiniTags: life
One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Harold PinterTags: life
I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.
Samuel RichardsonTags: life
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
Amy TanTags: life
And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.
Martin AmisScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Will DurantTags: science life knowledge misattributed-to-kant paraphrasing-herbert-spencer
It's not about what you've done; it's how you've experienced whatever has happened to you. Matt Lawrence in The Overachievers
Alexandra RobbinsTags: life inspirational
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
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