sad quotes about not being good enough

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven. ~William Channing



A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. ~Phyllis Diller



If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in. ~Author Unknown



My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I "should" be doing. ~Lonzo Idolswine



I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? ~Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985



In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves. ~Jack Horner, on the eighty years between Darwin's On the Origin of Species and the nuclear bomb, in Time, 26 April 1993



The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. ~John Burroughs



For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward. ~Jay Leno



A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. ~James Freeman Clarke, Sermon



Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. ~Catherine Douzel



It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious. ~A.A. Milne, Not That It Matters, 1919



A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. ~Saki



I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal. ~Peter Ustinov



Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



To use five crayons. Maybe, not.



Mute though his lips be, yet they still speak. Hushed is his voice, but its echoes of liberty are ringing through the world, and the sons of bondage listen with joy. ~Matthew Simpson



A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. ~Charles Evans Hughes



Wind chimes in your yard will serenade garden creatures - squirrels, fairies and angels. ~Author Unknown



I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. ~Michel de Montaigne



Psychology has a long past, but only a short history. ~Hermann Ebbinghaus