"Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures."

-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Life Quotes #Noble Quotes #Rich Quotes

“Johnny Depp and I think Woody Allen would be fun to hang out with.”
“We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.”
“lovers, it is well known, carry the art of tautology to its utmost perfection, and even the most impatient of them can both bear to hear and repeat the same things times without number, till the sound becomes the echo to the sense or the nonsense previously uttered.”

Source : Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.316
“Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.”
“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
“We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.”
“People who are busy doing things - as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops -don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them.”
“When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.”

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