Life and Existence

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Do not wait for the last judgement. It comes every day.

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Convictions are prisons.

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

There is no education like adversity.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still .entangled with the desire for ownership.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy.

 

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the Past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the Past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son’s age.

My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come.

Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.

Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus.

 

Not only does democracy make everyman forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens to the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.

But, once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky!

I have gone marking the atlas of your body with crosses of fire.