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Would he not say with Homer,. Better to be the poor servant of a poor master, and to endure anything, rather than think as they do and live after their ... Plato
Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship. Nick Hornby
Salman Rushdie quote: "Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their..."
Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere? Salman Rushdie
What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick? William Shakespeare
Jodi Picoult quote: "My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a..."
My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse. Jodi Picoult
Jane Austen quote: "Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is..."
Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without? Jane Austen
Mother Teresa quote: "A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die..."
A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted. Mother Teresa
Each of us lives with a sword over his head. There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot. Those who cannot are not necessarily better than those who can. But they are the creators of the special myth of their time, because any myth is the creation of the very few who cannot bear reality. Murray Kempton
P. T. Barnum quote: "Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to..."
Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail. P. T. Barnum
Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the... Aldous Huxley
W. H. Auden quote: "What living occasion can, Be just to the absent?"
What living occasion can, Be just to the absent? W. H. Auden
I wonder Pa went so easy. I wonder Grampa didn' kill nobody. Nobody never tol' Grampa where to put his feet. An' Ma ain't nobody you can push aroun' neither. I seen her beat the hell out of a tin peddler with a live chicken one time 'cause he give her a argument. She had the chicken in one han', an' the ax in the other, about to cut its head off. She aimed to go for that peddler with the ax, but she forgot which hand was which, an' she takes after him with the chicken. Couldn' even eat... John Steinbeck
You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives. Glenn Beck
Abolishers of the soul (materialists) are necessarily abolishers of hell, they, certainly, are interested. At all events, they are people who fear to live again--lazy people. Charles Baudelaire
Pope John Paul II quote: "Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to..."
Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history. Pope John Paul II

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