Vaille Quotes

#1. Le mal de vivre, 'the pain of life.' Qu'll faut bien vivre ... 'that we must live with, or endure.' Vaille que vivre, this is difficult but it is something like 'we must live the life we have. We must soldier on.

Ruth Ozeki

#2. The important thing is to keep the fire in your heart and be strong to overcome hard moments.

Paulo Coelho

#3. Never try a shot you haven't practised.

Harvey Penick

#4. Success is about more than simple resilience. It's about using that downward momentum to propel ourselves in the opposite direction. It's about capitalizing on setbacks and adversity to become even happier, even more motivated, and even more successful. It's not falling down, it's falling up.

Shawn Achor

#5. The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home.

John Dewey

#6. But self, though it would intrude, could not engross her.

Jane Austen

#7. The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations.

Michael Bloomberg

#8. Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives ... Even a static photograph can change in the blink of a day or decade.

Edmundo Desnoes

#9. Human beings are no damn good," he said. "We are even worse than animals. We like ... "
He trailed off, cleared his throat, but his voice hardly reached a whisper.
"We like monsters," he said.

Victor LaValle

#10. You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both.

Oriana Fallaci

#11. there is nothing safer than lending money to people with property. Why? Because if they default on the loan, you can repossess the house. Even if they run away,

Niall Ferguson

#12. Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable.

Robert A. Heinlein

#13. If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.

Robert Green Ingersoll