Benjolin Quotes & Sayings

Books have always been an important part of my life. — Jasmine Guinness

Laughter is carbonated holiness. — Anne Lamott

Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal. — Friedrich Nietzsche

She wanted to say something smart and kind, put together some combination of words to reach him where he'd reached her with his. But the thing was, there was more courage in these revelations of his than she had ever shown anyone, and in a world that was full of taking and cruelty, he was fucking breaking her heart with what he was giving her. — J.R. Ward

"Hence," goes on the professor, "definitions of happiness are interesting." I suppose the best thing to do with that is to let is pass. Me, I never saw a definition of happiness that could detain me after train-time, but that may be a matter of lack of opportunity, of inattention, or of congenital rough luck. If definitions of happiness can keep Professor Phelps on his toes, that is little short of dandy. We might just as well get on along to the next statement, which goes like this: "One of the best" (we are still on definitions of happiness) "was given in my Senior year at college by Professor Timothy Dwight: 'The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.'" Promptly one starts recalling such Happiness Boys as Nietzche, Socrates, de Maupassant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Blake, and Poe."
-Review of the book, Happiness, by (Professor) William Lyon Phelps. Review title: The Professor Goes in for Sweetness and Light; November 5, 1927 — Dorothy Parker

Kindness is always more powerful than rightness, because rightness is only right but kindness is always right but with kindness. — Debasish Mridha

Humility is a flower which does not grow in everyone's garden. — Aristotle.

Doesn't he kill himself at that point? — Eloisa James

It requires a great deal more generosity to take than to give. — Mary McMullen

With no expectations anything can become. — Steven Farmer

I remember my agent at the time called me and was like, "I've got it! I've found it! I've found your role!" I worked my ass off to get that role, because I think me and three or four other girls tested for it. But it was a great time. — Sherilyn Fenn

Strong and bitter wordes indicate a weak cause. — Victor Hugo

I don't write about Google except to insult the company. — Kara Swisher

I did not expect to survive that long. Yet two years had gone by and I was not that much worse. In fact, things were going rather well for me and I had gotten engaged to a very nice girl, Jane Wilde. But in order to get married, I needed a job, and in order to get a job, I needed a Ph.D. — Stephen Hawking

I'm just saying
you can't prevent other people from disappointing you. It's bound to happen at some point. We're all only human. What you can do is decide how you're going to deal with it. — Sara Shepard