Life is the greatest author of us all, for it writes the very best and very worst of all tales & stories...

We have all had stupid youths,' said Mathilde. 'I find them delicious.

"You are young," said my father. "You won't get any younger even if you clean your teeth twice a day." "You'll get older," said my mother, "that's what happens." "Then what happens?" "You won't be...

Charlie Brown: A penny! Rats! Why couldn't I have found a nickel? What good is a penny these days? Why do things like that always happen to me?! *walks off frustrated* Lucy: Gee, he found a penny! Why...

Humility carries less weight and it makes things float. Pride is weighty and it makes things sink! It takes humility then for a 'ship', regardless of how loaded it is, to float on the surface of the...

In a well-ordered universe... camping would take place indoors.

The start and the end is same for all of us. We were all born, and we will all die - in the same state. It is the journey where we experience Happiness.

Sometimes life takes you on a journey that changes everything you thought you wanted.

The harder you slam a ball into the ground, the higher it bounces back up... A divorce, a breakup, losing a job, or just feeling seriously down can ground you, rough you up a bit, leave calluses on...

Experience is a supreme teacher, but experience is not something that can be taught. It has to be learned through choice and consequence.

They say Night is all black in the face All that glitters only adds to the grace No attempt to success ever succeeds Without one slogging through the blackened days

It's not what you know

The loneliest place to spend eternity is your own life after you can't change it anymore. - - Lucifer from Kevin

At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and...

Even blind alleys lead somewhere.

Poverty and sickness have this miraculous power of completely changing one's priorities

She hoped that Tin Win would learn what she had learned over the years: that there are wounds time does not heal, though it can reduce them to a manageable size.

We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

I'm in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren't, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I'm not there in an instant.

You might pass by those who're stuck in the bottleneck while you are swimming in your whiskey, be kind!

It's not money which will make your life meaningful. It's life which will make your money meaningful.

If you think rightly, every problem is financial problem or eventually becomes one.

There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-five, single, and female in New York. It's a rite of passage few women would want to repeat. It's...

If a frog is placed into a pot of boiling water it will immediately try to jump out; but if it's placed into a pot of cool water that's gradually heated until boiling, it will stay put and never try...

Your present is what you live, but your past is what you carry.

Wallowing in the metaphorical mud of life helps pass time but doesn't really achieve much of any lasting value.

We all think when we're young that we want excitement and highs and passion. To hell with ordinary. But when we find ourselves in these adult bodies, when we wise up a little, or get slapped in the...

We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.

Life is a test. It was designed to be so. It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasure; where we learn right from wrong; where we pass through both darkness and...

As corny as it sounds, Gallagher said, life is very long. You're supposed to mess up when you're young and other people sometimes benefit from your mistakes - as you did in this case. But things...