Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
-Wilson Mizner
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
-John Lennon
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Life without freedom is like a body without a soul, and freedom without thought is like a confused spirit.
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. One must practice the virtues taught in such books in order to acquire love of God.
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
-Alan Lightman
Compassion: I don’t think that there is another world as important in marking a person’s inner growth. No other word completely conveys what this single word conveys.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw