"Life is a celebrationâ€¦ I try to enjoy it as much as possible."

-- Rashad Evans

#Trying Quotes #Celebration Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Immortalityâ€”dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!â€”Love! Immortality!”
“The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in bloom and blossom. The sunlight was a benediction. The breezes were so caressingly soft and intimate on the skin as to be embarrassing.”

Source : Dan Simmons (2009). “Drood”, p.755, Hachette UK
“Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.”
“I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.”
“I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.”
“Before I tried LSD, I'd been going to a psychologist for a couple of years. I found out about success that you have to fight for it a lot, then when you achieve it, you can't give up the fight.”
“I had a great teacher in India who said to me, 'If you think you're spiritual and evolved and enlightened, go home for Christmas.'”
“Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.”

Source : "The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers". Book by Will Durant, 1926.

You may also like:

Anderson Silva
Mixed Martial Artist
Chael Sonnen
Mixed martial artist
Chuck Liddell
Mixed Martial Artist
Dan Henderson
Mixed Martial Artist
Jon Jones
Mixed Martial Artist
Lyoto Machida
Mixed Martial Artist
Mauricio Rua
Mixed Martial Artist
Quinton Jackson
Mixed Martial Artist
Tito Ortiz
Mixed Martial Artist