quotes about Vicissitudes

“No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.”

“Make sure you don't become the very thing you find yourself fighting against.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com

“It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas; Soon the bells will start, And the thing that will make them ring Is the carol that you sing Right within your heart.”

“A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.”

“Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?”

Source : "Frank H. Westheimer, major figure in 20th century chemistry, dies at 95". news.harvard.edu. April 19, 2007.

“The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him who considers himself wise in the possession of knowledge. This meaning of the word still endures: the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth....Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.”

Source : "Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy". Book by Karl Jaspers, 1951.

“I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.”

“Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been.”

“Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level”

“People think I like partying, but I actually don't like going out. I'm a homebody. I like chilling in with friends and playing PlayStation 3 Pro Evolution Soccer.”