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Life Quotes

Posted on January 15, 2011 by

“Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.” – Adele Brookman

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.” – Lewis Grizzard

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard

“I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.” – John Wooden

“A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.” – Benjamin Franklin

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.” – Barack Obama

“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.” – Mark Twain

“I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.” – Mark Twain

“Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.” – Mark Twain

“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.” – Ansel Adams

“But men must know that in this theater of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.” – Francis Bacon

J. D. Salinger Quotes

Posted on April 12, 2010 by

– “All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”

– “An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.”

– “Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.”

– “He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.”

– “How do you know you’re going to do something, untill you do it?”

– “How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.”

– “I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”

– “I don’t even like old cars. I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.”

– “I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”

– “I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.”

– “I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”

– “I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”

– “I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”

– “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.”

– “If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.”

– “It was a very stupid thing to do, I’ll admit, but I hardly didn’t even know I was doing it.”

– “It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.”

– “Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.”

– “Mothers are all slightly insane.”

– “People never believe you.”