I self destruct every relationship so that i don't get hurt... but in truth i just hurt myself worse in the long run..
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the best way to get something done is to begin.
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The shades of night were falling fast,As though an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,A banner with the strange device,ExcelsiorHis brow was sad his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior
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A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. What do you mean? responded her mother. Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.
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Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
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Here's a posy of flowers, and a basket too, With Birthday greetings all for you.
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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
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Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy.
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All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.
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Fishing gives you a sense of where you fit in the sceme of things - Your place in the universe...I, mean, here I am, one small guy with a fishing pole on this vast beach and out there in the blue expanse of ocean are these hundreds of millions of fish...laughing at me.
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Out of the earth to rest or range Perpetual in perpetual change, The unknown passing through the strange.
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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
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I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind; But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret for being a little to kind
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As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.
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Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.
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The time I am most powerful and in control of my life is when I drive my car. Whatever lonely feelings I have from the lack of communication with my husband disappear in no time flat. When the windows and the top are open with my favorite jazz station on the radio playing, nothing and nobody can touch me. Then I go home to the same relentless battle. Life can be a pisser
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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.
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The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.
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If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine.
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An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.
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The test of any man's character is how he takes praise.
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I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
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It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.
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Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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After listening to a lecture on evolution by a science professor, a student wrote a poem and titled it ''The Amazing Professor.'' The poem read: Once I was a tadpole when I began to begin. Then I was a frog with my tail tucked in. Next I was a monkey on a coconut tree. Now I am a doctor with a Ph.D.
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The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.
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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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