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| I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. | | Mark Twain | |
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| I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility | | Maya Angelou | |
| I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice. | | Nelson Mandela | |
| I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. | | Douglas Adams | |
| I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| I say, when life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own! | | Bill Watterson | |
| I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. | | Douglas Adams | |
| I shall be telling this with a sigh - Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference | | Robert Frost | |
| I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived | | Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track. | | Bill Watterson | |
| I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work. | | Maya Angelou | |
| I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God | | Igor Stravinsky | |
| I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived. | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely | | Bible | |
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I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it
seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned that
you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things:
a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that
regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're
gone from your life. I've learned that making a living is not the same thing as
making a life. I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both
hands; you need to be able to throw some things back. I've learned that whenever
I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've
learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that
every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or
just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you
did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. | | Maya Angelou | |
