They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
-Ernest Hemingway
Quotations
Life
A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.
-Maynard. J. Keenan "Maynard. J. Keenan"
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
-George Bernard Shaw
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
-Socrates
If there's a thing I've learned in my life, it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for, don't.
-Cassandra Clare
Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
-Jean Paul Sartre "Jean-Paul Sartre"
Life is a journey towards the unknown. An empty mind is useful in that journey rather than a mind filled with past.
-J. Krishnamurti
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
-Henry David Thoreau "Henry David Thoreau"
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
-Søren Kierkegaard
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-Oscar Wilde
