In soft regions are born soft men. - Herodotus. View more images...
The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. - T. Starr King. View more images...
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. - Thomas Jefferson. View more images...
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. - Robert Louis Stevenson. View more images...
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. - Samuel Johnson. View more images...
Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s. - Ronald Steel. View more images...
I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you. - Jake Gyllenhaal. View more images...
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting. - Edward de Bono. View more images...
Clay lies still but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep Up, lad; when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep. - A. E. Housman. View more images...
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. - D.H. Lawrence. View more images...
Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. - Isaac Asimov. View more images...
Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share. - Watchman Nee. View more images...
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. - George Gordon Byron. View more images...
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. - Voltaire. View more images...
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. - Anthony Burgess. View more images...