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.

Everyone changes so slowly, they don’t even know that they have. And everyone likes to pretend that things are just the same yet they look at you like you could bring something back that’s supposed...

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of time.

I’ve never lost anything, but I have given some things up.

What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between...

Never underestimate the significance of the little things done out of a large heart of love.

But then I realized that I was holding on to something that didn’t exist anymore. That the person I missed didn’t exist anymore. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And we can...

The way I see it is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.

O Father, console them and please spare our country from that terrible disaster, not because we are any better but only out of grace. And if it has to be different, then teach me to...

I have everything I thought was important and nothing that really is.-Lily Francone

Non complicate le cose, ci saranno già le cose a complicarsi da sole.

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

Three things in research are important. The first is passion. The second is passion. And the third is passion.

Perception and reality are two different things.

People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away.

Whatsoever things are true…think on these things.

Your Reality is an accumulation of all the things that you have wished for.

It’s okay to accept things from people. It doesn’t make you weak or helpless.

Kujenga urafiki na wanasiasa wakati mwingine ni kitu kizuri. Wanasaidia kurahisisha mambo.

My mother says I’m crazy, I’m not crazy, I just have a different way of looking at things.

Two things I can’t stand – sitting and sleeping.

In the world of time, all things are possible.

…the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

If you are not satisfied with the things you have got then stop crying and start working and go get those things that will satisfy you.

For a minute there it was really good. It was really, really good. Wasn’t it good? Maybe really, really good things aren’t meant to last for too long; maybe that’s what makes them all the...

Do what you want that works.

Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. Hardly a week had elapsed since Van’s arrival when he was found worthy of being initiated in her web...

Kitabu cha KOLONIA SANTITA kinaweza kusomwa na watu wenye umri wa kuanzia miaka 13 na kuendelea. Katika umri wa miaka 13 fikra za mtoto huanza kuwa na maono na utambuzi wa vitu mbalimbali. Watoto katika...

All the good things a man can do for a woman is against her religion

Things are often exactly as they seem. Confusing isn’t it.

The universe is about two things: time and the opposite.

We are all wealth. We are all treasure. We are the abundance of all things. Spend yourself completely.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

Value all relationships for the lessons they teach. Make sure you learn the lessons well. If not you will repeat those mistakes over and over.Focus on the kind of relationship you do want! Surround yourself...

Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they’re not equipped to deal with them.

I had too many things to say, and too small a brain to sort them out with.

If you take things the wrong way, be aware of which end is up

It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.

The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.

Even the good things from our pasts still only belonged in the past

A moment is the root from which all things grow if you can understand a moment of time, everything else is included.

Things fall apart. But things don’t just fall apart. People break them.

I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular.