enjoying life quotes

A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other. ~Ann Landers



Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. ~Jane Howard



Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. ~Robert Heinlein, Notebooks of Lazarus Long



Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances. ~Saint Vincent de Paul



Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life. ~Annette Goodheart



Angels can fly because they carry no burdens. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



I've spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart. ~Astrid Alauda



Patriotism... is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ~Adlai Stevenson



A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb



Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~Voltaire



Life is a shit sandwich. But if you've got enough bread, you don't taste the shit. ~Jonathan Winters



Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking. ~Alfred North Whitehead



Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. ~Matthew 12:12



Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. ~Jean de La Bruyere



Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them. ~Author Unknown



If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls' sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such. ~Homer Simpson, The Simpsons



He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece. ~William Shakespeare, King Lear



Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer. ~Terri Guillemets



Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism. ~Hedrick Smith