Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the
mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organised by the
Swiss. Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the
lover's Swiss, the police German and it's all organised by the Italians.
"Get busy living or get busy dying."-- The Shawshank Redemption
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which
I disapprove. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
One Man's Sunset is another Man's Dawn. -- Fievel Mouskawitz
"Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor
well-done." -- Ernie Kovacs
"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a
life." -- Arthur Ashe
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds;
and the pessimist fears this is true."
-- Irving Caesar
"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and
remove all doubt."
-- Mark Twain
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
-- Jonathan Swift
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god
than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible
gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
--Stephen F Roberts
A youth becomes a man when the marks he wants to leave on the world have
nothing to do with tires.
It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
You spend your whole life believing that you're on the right track,
only to discover that you're on the wrong train.
Maturity is knowing when and where to be immature.
"Naturally, love's the most distant possibility."
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."
"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."
"Some people will die for love, some will die because they lost it."
"My wish is not to mean everything to everyone but to mean something to someone."
"Love sometimes stares at you right in the face, but you don't realize it until you're about to lose it."
"If you take life too seriously, you can't laugh along when you fail..."
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. ~Milton Berle
Every tear you shed, every drop of blood you left, everytime you weren't good enough, everytime you didn't have it in you, everytime you gave it your all, everytime you rejoiced...that's who you are.
Heroes are remembered, but legends never die.
Our dreams are living creatures. You have to feed them to keep them alive.
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.
Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says, "I am coming."
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
There are but three events in a man's life: birth, life, and death. He is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain; Don't ever forget to live.
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99: wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists; whereas the rest of my advice is on no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now...
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Well, nevermind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at yourself and recall in a way that you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.
Don't worry about the future. Or worry; but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt- to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindsides you at 4 p.m. on some idle tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing.
Don't be reckless with other peoples' hearts, and don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long. And in the end, it's only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. Some of the most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives; some of the MOST interesting 40- year olds still don't.
Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40. Maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half-chance, and so are everybody else's.
Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it, or what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.
Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
Do not read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few that you should hold on to. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you will need people you knew when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise, Politicians will philander, and you too will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off; painting over the ugly parts, and recycling it for more than it's worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.
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