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Stop By Sometime

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This is not actually a quote, but you may like it.

“Dear Mom,

I haven’t talked to you in 44 years. You could say it sounds like forever, but it seems like yesterday when you dropped me off at the babysitters, promising to return. I have always thought about what I would say to you and how I would say it. I’m not sure what that would look like, but it sounds sad. You never know, maybe I would laugh when I’d hear the story of why you didn’t come back for your five year old child. Maybe you got arrested or maybe you met a really nice guy and he took you out to lunch. I do have to say that was a very long lunch. I think we would have had fun together. I became one of the Best Amateur fighters at 106 pounds in the country. You would have been proud. Although, after I retired from the sport, I got addicted to drugs and did 14 years in prison. I sure could have used a good talkin’ to from you at that time. It seems all my relationships with girls are terrible. For some reason, I just don’t trust the ladies. Anyway, you should stop by sometime and say hi.

Your boy,
Dave, age 51”

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Living, Being, and Doing Quotes

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“Fall seven times; stand up eight.” – Japanese proverb

“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” – Joseph Campbell

“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.” – Gandhi

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean

“All is flux, nothing stays still.” – Heraclitus

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.” – James Joyce

“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” – Plutarch

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” – Epicurus

“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else” – Judy Garland

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank

“The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven” – John Milton

“Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” – James Oppenheim

Sarcastic Inspirational Quotes About Life

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“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.” – Mignon McLaughlin

“People that pay for things never complain. It’s the guy you give something to that you can’t please. ” – Will Rogers

“A half truth is a whole lie.”- Yiddish Proverb

“Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.” – Cynthia Nelms

“Opportunities are like sunsets. If you wait too long, you miss them.” – William Arthur Ward

“What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.”- Mark Twain

“An optimist thinks that this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true.”- Robert Oppenheimer

“The more that learn to read, the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.” – Will Rogers

Funny Sarcastic Sayings About Life

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“What we feel and think and is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera ” – Aldous Huxley

“Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.” – Mark Twain

“Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.” – Robin Williams

“God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.” – Robin Williams

“Politics: ‘Poli’ a Latin word meaning ‘many’; and ‘tics’ meaning ‘bloodsucking creatures’.” – Robin Williams

“People say satire is dead. It’s not dead; it’s alive and living in the White House.” – Robin Williams

“Ah, yes, divorce … from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.” – Robin Williams

“He was happily married – but his wife wasn’t. ” – Victor Borge

Murphy’s Laws

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“If anything can go wrong, it will.”

“Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse.”

“Enough research will tend to support whatever theory.”

“Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.”

“If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.”

“You will always find something in the last place you look.”

Superbly Sarcastic Sayings About Life

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“I am not young enough to know everything.” – Oscar Wilde

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde

“Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.” – Groucho Marx

“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” – Abba Eban

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” – Albert Einstein

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe. ” – Albert Einstein

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. ” – Albert Einstein

“In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep ” – Albert Einstein

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. ” – Albert Einstein

“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. ” – George Bernard Shaw

Life’s Wisdom Quotes

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“The greatest use of a life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” – Unknown

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Unknown

“We are not human beings on a Spiritual journey. We are Spiritual Beings on a human journey.” – Unknown

“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” – Samuel Butler

“All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for…There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.” –George MacDonald

“An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” – Henry David Thoreau

“He not busy being born is busy dying.” – Bob Dylan

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, that is when you command the attention of the world.” – George Washington Carver

“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” – Vince Lombardi

“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.” – Martin Luther King