life philosophy

90% problems of line can be solved by dropping them and remaining 10& can be solved by effort

— Nitin Yaduvanshi

A balance, I think, is needed, " Dr. Templeton said judiciously,"between the head and the heart: nothing easier to say: nothing harder to achieve.

— Jude Morgan

Aberrant is not abhorrent

— Matthew Goldfinger

A better life and a peaceful mind comes by not spending your energy of destroying the negatives in your life, but by adding more positive influences from here in the now...all energy should be focused on a better you of today...and time will use the past negatives as fuel to propel you in the right direction.

— Daniel Yanez

Accept each other's fault with brotherly love.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A child may ask, “What is the world’s story about?” And a grown man or woman may wonder, “What way will the world go? How does it end and, while we’re at it, what’s the story about?” I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, so that we live in a Pearl White serial of continuing thought and wonder. Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. I think this is the only story we have and that it occurs on all levels of feeling and intelligence. Virtue and vice were warped and woof of our first consciousness, and they will be the fabric of our last, and this despite any changes we may impose on field and river and mountain, on economy and manners. There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?

— John Steinbeck

Act so that every action of yours should be capable of becoming a universal rule of action for all men.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Actually, what does man live for?” “To think about it. Any other question?” “Yes. Why does he die just when he has done that and has become a bit more sensible?” “Some people die without having become more sensible.” “Don’t evade my question. And don’t start talking about the transmigration of souls.” “I’ll ask you something else first. Lions kill antelopes; spiders flies; foxes chickens; which is the only race in the world that wars on itself uninterruptedly, fighting and killing one another?” “Those are questions for children. The crown of creation, of course, the human being— who invented the words love, kindness, and mercy.” “Good. And who is the only being in Nature that is capable of committing suicide and does it?” “Again the human being— who invented eternity, God, and resurrection.” “Excellent,” Ravi said. “You see of how many contradictions we consist. And you want to know why we die?

— Erich Maria Remarque

A deal's a deal. Nothing is for nothing. Everything has its price.

— Marguerite Bennett

A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.

— Steven J. Carroll