Being smart and doing something that no one has done before are two different things.

THE GOOD LIFE requires that we take pleasure in new things; A GOOD LIFE requires that we take pleasure in moments.To enjoy THE GOOD LIFE we have to get ahead; to enjoy A GOOD LIFE...

Smart people do dumb things.

Don’t do things that you know are morally wrong. Not because someone is watching, but because you are. Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself. You’ll always know.

Give with a free hand, but give only of your own.

I had to organize things. So I created the ‘Black Mamba’. So Kobe has to deal with these issues, all the personal challenges. The Black Mamba steps on the court and does what he does....

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (…)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective...

Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press.

Make your body your prized possession above all physical things. Spare no expense, re-prioritize and invest in your health.

Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works....

Smartass Disciple: Where were all things before the time began?Master of Stupidity: What was the time before all things created?

It doesn’t do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. – Then she touched her hand to her heart. – Beautiful things sometimes do.

Did you find anything special?’ Blackie asked.T. nodded. ‘Come over here,’ he said, ‘and look.’ Out of both pockets he drew bundles of pound notes. ‘Old Misery’s savings,’ he said. ‘Mike ripped out the mattress,...

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

Don’t spend money on things… spend money on experiences. You’ll enjoy life a lot more!

Recognize and appreciate little things, and enjoy what Life has to offer

We own the things that claim that we are theirs.

Moments are the source of all things.

Many things have been written and will be written for dream. Dreams are nothing but our unclear expectations.

 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this system of things? Has not God made the wisdom of the world foolish? For since, in the wisdom of God,...

David Foster Wallace: Because I’d like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them then.

Love permeates all things and laws.Scientists should research it more.

The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every accessory was so costly and beautiful that it had an...

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

Everything is language.

[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.

A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.

School is learning things you don’t want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn’t know, while working toward a future you don’t know will ever come.

Study is just one of the best things. I can’t retire.

As we grow detached from things, we come (with God’s help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the...

The nights were mainly made for saying things you can’t say tomorrow day.

Learn to thank God for the things you want but cannot have. Matthew 6:25-34.

Don’t die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.

The garnets,’ Sniff moaned. ‘I didn’t get a single one.’ Snufkin sat down beside him and said kindly: ‘I know. But that’s how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now I just...

It was understood that they shared the same thresholds–the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking...

SOMETIMES, THINGS DIDN’T NEED TO BE BIGGER, THEY ONLY NEED TO BECOME BETTER.

You can spend all your life looking for things. The truth is that those things will elude you. Change your approach. Begin to seek God and you will see things running after you.

Yes, this is what my senses alone have learned:—Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

Thirty three thousand, three hundred and thirty three things. That’s all I need to get by. Oh, and I guess I also need love. Better make that thirty three thousand, three hundred and thirty four.

Physics is about two things: time and the opposite.

The more “things” I have, the more time I spend thinking about them, moving them around, fixing them, looking for them, or upgrading them.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.

Todos deben dejar algo al morir, decía mi abuelo. Un niño o un libro o un cuadro o una casa o una pared o un par de zapatos. O un jardín. Algo que las manos...

We’re a society of brats, fighting over the same toys. That, for me, is the closest we come to be inherently evil as a people. It leads to selfishness, inflexibility, and impatience — among so...

Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.

But some things I didn’t have to figure out. Some things hadn’t changed, and some things never would.Except me. I had changed, and I would give anything to change back.:

Day or night, good or bad…all things from within.

Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

Personally, I think, so what? Money’s just a thing and things change. That’s what I’ve found. One minute something’s really there, right next to you, and you can cuddle up to it. The next it...