When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time. ~Ouida
#quotes #ouida #family #hardship

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. ~Maya Angelou
#quotes #maya-angelou #smoking #music

I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s. ~Ellen Page
#quotes #ellen-page #teenage #70s

If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it! ~Estelle
#quotes #estelle #music

He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ~Jewish Proverb
#proverbs #jewish-proverbs #hardship

The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably. ~George MacDonald
#quotes #george-macdonald #god #failure #success

A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right. ~Sean Astin
#quotes #sean-astin #marathon #running #sports #eating

Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world. ~Frederick Lenz
#quotes #frederick-lenz #yoga #mistakes

Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
#proverbs #japanese-proverbs #perseverance

To change and to change for the better are two different things. ~German Proverb
#proverbs #german-proverbs #change #progress

I am having a good time doing nothing. ~Phylicia Rashad
#quotes #phylicia-rashad #happiness

There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #life

There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more expensive. I would have paid $150 a year to get a better version of FIFA. ~Mitch Lasky
#quotes #mitch-lasky #games #free-to-play

Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #doubt #wisdom

A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
#proverbs #hungarian-proverbs #debt

A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
#proverbs #yiddish-proverbs #quotations

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ~David Ives
#quotes #david-ives #writing #comedy

I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots. ~Derek Jeter
#quotes #derek-jeter #humor

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese Proverb
#proverbs #japanese-proverbs #integrity

We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are. ~Lauryn Hill
#quotes #lauryn-hill #trying

One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
#quotes #shel-silverstein #sisters

Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to. ~Martin Luther
#quotes #martin-luther #evil #alcohol