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“Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates
“Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
“A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.”
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
“Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.”
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”
Lin Yutang
“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.”
Lin Yutang
“The wise man reads both books and life itself.”
Lin Yutang
“And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.”
Isaac Asimov
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
Isaac Asimov
“ The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Isaac Asimov
“The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.”
Philip Kindred Dick
“ May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”
Robert Anson Heinlein
“ One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.”
Robert Anson Heinlein
“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.”
Robert Anson Heinlein
“ Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.”
Robert Sheckley
“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
Albert Einstein
“Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
Albert Einstein
“I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.”
Albert Einstein
“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.”
Albert Einstein
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.”
Albert Einstein
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.”
Albert Einstein
“At any rate, I am convinced that He - God, does not play dice.”
Albert Einstein
“If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
Albert Einstein
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
Plato
“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”
Plato
“Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.”
Woody Allen
“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”
Woody Allen
“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”
Woody Allen
