41th Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Light is the task where many share the toil. — Homer

The paradox of life; everyone desire a fuller life. But no one wishes to increase in age. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this. — Francis Atterbury

For all our secular rationalism and technological advances, potential for surrender to the charms of magical thinking remains embedded in the human psyche, awaiting only the advertiser to awaken it. — Tim Wu

The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you. — Earl Nightingale

I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better. — Amelie Mauresmo

IF ONE WISHES to live to a ripe old age, there are certain activities one should avoid. Chief among these is eating anything larger than one's own head - but not so very far down the list is any activity that involves clambering around the outside of a spaceship. — Charles Stross

Nicky, ten, reported in an offhand way (while I was rushing to make dinner and go out) that three of his textbooks were missing and I had to send in nine dollars. I totally blew up. My first impulse was to hit him or punish him. But, even though I was over the edge with anger, I somehow managed to get hold of myself and start my sentences with the word "I." I think I was screaming as loud as is humanly possible: "I am furious! I am enraged! Three books are lost and now I have to cough up nine dollars for it! I'm so angry I feel like I'm going to explode! And to hear this when I'm rushing to make dinner and go out, and now I — Anonymous

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion. — Benjamin Disraeli

I don't really resent being on the red carpet as much as I do having to deal with the paparazzi. — Megan Fox

Only the spider paid no mind when the unicorn called softly to her through the open door. Arachne was busy with a web which looked to her as though the Milky Way had begun to fall like snow. The unicorn whispered, 'Weaver, freedom is better, freedom is better,' but the spider fled unhearing up and down her iron loom. — Peter S. Beagle

What has shaken me is not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Seeing everything just the way it is gives you the power and capability to walk through life effortlessly. — Jaggi Vasudev

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being. — Immanuel Kant