Albert Camus

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
- Albert Camus

Liz Curtis Higgs

The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.
- Liz Curtis Higgs

Tao Te Ching

Just realize where you come from: this is the essence of wisdom.
- Tao Te Ching

Anonymous

The man on top of the mountain did not fall there.
- Anonymous

Miles Kington

Man is the only creature that seems to have the time and energy to pump all his sewage out to sea, and then go swimming in it.
- Miles Kington

Will Rogers

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."
- Will Rogers

Edith Sitwell

"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."
- Edith Sitwell

Jules Renard

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
- Jules Renard

Ambrose Bierce

"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
- Ambrose Bierce

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

David T. Wolf

"Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows."
- David T. Wolf

Judi Adler

Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have no use for helicopters!
- Judi Adler

George Halas

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
- George Halas

Edwin H. Land

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
- Edwin H. Land

Aeschylus

"When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in."
- Aeschylus

Kin Hubbard

Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
- Kin Hubbard

Lucille Ball

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
- Lucille Ball

Clarence Darrow

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
- Clarence Darrow

Audrey Foris

If you're going to tickle, use a feather not a whip.
- Audrey Foris, C'est l'esprit du coq rouge (Red Rooster Musings, trans.)

Isaac Asimov

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
- Isaac Asimov

Helen Keller

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller

Terry Pratchett

“Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot".”
- Terry Pratchett (1948 -)

Aitken Roshi

Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.
- Aitken Roshi

Kenneth Blanchard

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
- Kenneth Blanchard

Buddhist Quote

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds. Shine.
- Buddhist Quote

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Enjoy the spring of love and youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year’s nest.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henny Youngman

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready.
- Henny Youngman

Mignon McLaughlin

When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.
- Mignon McLaughlin

George Bernard Shaw

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw

Kevin Charbonneau

“Embrace the detours.”
- Kevin Charbonneau

Mark Twain

I have never known, in the case of any petty thief, of a reform that covered the whole ground, after he had once gotten habituated to the feel of the coin in another man's pocket.
- Mark Twain