#life

"What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?"

"Knowledgeable [10w] The knowledgeable man inventoried and catalogued everything he doesn't know."

"We are unusual and tragic and alive."

"It doesn't sound logical to say that a man is an atheist just because he's probably someonewho knows his own God...personally."

"I can sell you wine and I can sell you flowers, but I can't sell you romance, because that comes from your heart, and it's free."

"No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping."

"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."

"As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life."

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

"Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you."

"And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be."

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."

"If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life."

"I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself."

"That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."

"Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship."

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."

"Objective Journalism Foreign journalists will always compromise objectivity to preserve relationships that give them better access."

"Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them."

"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."