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«When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long,full of adventure, full of knowledge.»
«When you are young, you think.When you are old, you reflect.The very same but yet a life of difference.»
Author: Helene Lagerberg
| About:
Life
«When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you?re in good shape.»
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
(Founder, Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Confidence,
Future,
Happiness,
Hope,
Life,
Success
| Keywords:
applause, good shape
«when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.»
«What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Life,
Mathematics
| Keywords:
arithmetic, horrors, scene
«What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?»
«What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic»
«When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of space of which I am ignorant, and which knows me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there, why now rather than then?»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
astonished, Before and After, duration, engulf, engulfed, engulfs, frightened, immensity, swallowed
«When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
| About:
Life
«When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature»
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