quotes on life and happiness

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind. ~Francis H. Bradley



The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ~Jean Giraudoux



Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. ~Henry David Thoreau



My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952



The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. ~Quentin Crisp



Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown



Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ~Johann Pestalozzi



The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. ~B.F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement, 1969



Giving "Magic" the basketball is like giving Hitler an army, Jesse James a gang, or Genghis Khan a horse. ~Jim Murray, about Earvin Johnson



You found God? If nobody claims him in thirty days, he's yours! ~Author Unknown



It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good. ~Paul Westphal



Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion. ~Author Unknown Don't ever say you hate life. That's blasphemy. ~Jason Cahill, The Sopranos, "Meadowlands," original airdate 31 January 1999, spoken by the character Christopher Moltisanti



To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. ~Charles Dudley Warner



Epigram: a terse, witty, pointed statement, often with a clever twist in thought, or a short poem with a witty or satirical point.



Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number. ~Author Unknown



If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ~Cavett Robert



You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth. ~Charles Johnson You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth. ~Charles Johnson



Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him. ~Louis Kossuth



How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to? ~Anthony Robbins