quotes about change and growing up

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. ~Ann Landers



If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Labels? Okay, fine. I'm bisensual. Heteroflexible. And life-curious. That about covers it. ~Morgan Torva



It's hard to imagine a bigger desert oasis than Las Vegas. ~Cinnamon Stomberger



The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain. ~Lu Yu



A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ~Robert Frost



The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry. ~Robert Hutchison, 1932



The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. ~Cesare Pavese



There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. ~Charles Caleb Colton



The mathematics are usually considered as being the very antipodes of Poesy. Yet Mathesis and Poesy are of the closest kindred, for they are both works of the imagination. ~Thomas Hill



Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ~P.J. O'Rourke



You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. ~Garrison Keillor



The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. ~Cicero



Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter. ~Dave Barry



If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute. ~Thomas Paine



Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. ~Langdon Mitchell



It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money. ~Elinor Goulding Smith



The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words...." ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. ~Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957