Quotes

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.” Anton Chekhov

“People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.” Anton Chekhov

“Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.” Anton Chekhov

“If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.” Anton Chekhov

“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.” Anton Chekhov

“The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.” Anton Chekhov

“Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.” Anton Chekhov

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” Anton Chekhov

“People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.” Anton Chekhov

“I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.” Anton Chekhov

“Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.” Anton Chekhov

“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.” Anton Chekhov

“Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.” Anton Chekhov

“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.” Anton Chekhov

“A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.” Anton Chekhov

“There is nothing new in art except talent.” Anton Chekhov

“If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.” Anton Chekhov

“Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.” Anton Chekhov

“When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'” Anton Chekhov