top of page
.png){kind=small}
"To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse."
Standard
Customized
More
"When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It's pouring out, it keeps diminishing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You never know what people have endured to get where they are."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Why do you compare yourself to others? Can you carry weight of others on your shoulders?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Everyone should think about why certain undesirable situations occur in life."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Knowing my soul is my lifetime-study."
Author Name
Personal Development
"What you are seeking is yourself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The world is full of vanities."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next.' Unfilial as this may seem, that was not at all so in my own case. It was only when I watched Alexander [my own son] being born that I knew at once that my own funeral director had very suddenly, but quite unmistakably, stepped onto the stage. I was surprised by how calmly I took this, but also by how reluctant I was to mention it to my male contemporaries."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
Society
"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."
Mortality
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
Time
"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."
Religion
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
Work
"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
Work
"In some cases, it is the woman's stomach-not her heart-that has left her man for another."
Relationship
"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."
Religion
"Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays."
Philosophy
"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."
Writing
bottom of page