Sprightlier Quotes

#1. Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill:
Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age
Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

Alexander Pope

#2. This may not however elevate your stature during the years you have remaining; for fame's a weed, but repute is a slow-growing oak, and all we can do during our lifetimes is hop around like squirrels and plant acorns.

Neal Stephenson

#3. There are no accidents in salvation. Those who are to meet will meet, because together they have the potential for a holy relationship. They are ready for each other.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#4. I'm actually banned from the Himalayas, because I'm too good at yoga.

Judah Friedlander

#5. Tough love doesn't work. Turns out that just good old 'love' is enough.

Matt Haig

#6. Time has told me less than I need to know.

Gwen Harwood

#7. my old world is feeling more and more like a ghost. You know how a dream feels the farther you get from it? It loses its color and intensity and logic. Your emotional connection to it fades.

Blake Crouch

#8. Who was more conscious than the soldier of capricious fortune, of the random roll of the dice?

Robert Galbraith

#9. There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

Anthony Trollope

#10. God does not need our consent in order to govern us. He made us, so He has an intrinsic right to rule over us.

R.C. Sproul

#11. That was the thing about grief. It wasn't something you worked through once. It was something you worked through over and over again. The effects of losing someone lasted a lifetime.

Stephanie Reid

#12. Lighting your candle in a darken world ... always helps brighten humanity.

Timothy Pina

#13. I think too many people edit themselves way too soon. There's plenty of time to edit, and it is a crucial part of it all, too.

Jill McCorkle

#14. People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

Timothy Ferriss

#15. The sofa has to go first. We can put that right in the truck to go to the church."
"Is something going on I don't know about? Is the church paying top dollar for old stuff or something?

Cat Johnson

#16. Given the limits of our knowledge of such psychological problems as belief and motivation, the question of sincerity ... is misleading and fruitless.

Donald Weinstein