Life Is Better When Shared Quotes

#1. Or maybe it was her father's pragmatic dictum -- "You are no better than anyone else, and no one is better than you"-- that disposed her to see the hardships of her life as a fate shared by everyone, her good fortunes as an unearned blessing.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#2. An owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees the the less it talks.

Christie Watson

#3. In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with.

Philip Glass

#4. It would be lovely if he and his wife would succeed in dying before the matter of inherited property was finally settled. Then the person giving the speech at the funeral would be able to say that until the very end they had been able to pursue what they loved: sailing. [p. 121]

Jenny Erpenbeck

#5. What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys.

Lucien Febvre

#6. Hell will freeze over before I send you any money for this unwarranted bill.

Jon Jones

#7. The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with - nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.

Rob Sheffield

#8. We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness.

Sharon Gannon

#9. I have vowed to heal in the name of all beings. This vow is being fulfilled, Sofia, with the testimony of this book. I have shared this life experience with you in order to help my readers better recognize the power of their own mind.

Phakyab RINPOCHE

#10. Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.

Woodrow Wilson

#11. My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.

Maelle Gavet

#12. I didn't know how to define it
hermetic skepticism? liturgical cynicism?
this higher disbelief that led him to acknowledge the dignity of all the superstitions he scorned.

Umberto Eco

#13. Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it.

Marty Rubin

#14. ... And I wondered if we had disappointed God so much, that he wrote us off as pets, just alive to entertain.

Bethany Brookbank