Quotes about "Life Wisdom"

I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn't lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person. ”

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ”

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. ”

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist. ”

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. ”

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause. ”

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. ”

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. ”

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. ”

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. ”