Contrescarpe Quotes & Sayings

Marriage emerged some forty-five hundred years ago and evolved into a widespread and accepted institution that bonded families, maintained order, and created wealth. Unlike today, where many of us are searching for our romantic "soul mate," marriage was originally more about economics than deep emotion. — Robi Ludwig

Having a crush is a bit like being infected with the most annoying, troubling and yet delicious disease you could get. It is almost more of an affliction. — Claire Smith

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality. — Alec-Tweedie

When you were born the world was smiling, and you cry, because living a life so that you are dying smiled, cried and the world. — Tupac Shakur

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth. — Isaac Newton

When an opponent in the gymnasium gashes us with his nails or bruises our head in a collision, we do not protest or take offence, and we do not suspect him ever afterwards of malicious intent. However, we do regard him with a wary eye; not in enmity or suspicion, yet good-temperedly keeping our distance. So let it be, too, at other times in life; let us agree to overlook a great many things in those who are, as it were, our fellow-contestants. A simple avoidance, as I have said, is always open to us, without either suspicion or ill will. — Marcus Aurelius

Sometimes you have to make choices, and they're imperfect, but they're the only choices you can make and live with yourself. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

You must make a clear distinction between your creative mode and your critical mode. The two are like water and oil, they do not mix. — Gudjon Bergmann

You have to believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you are the one creating your struggle around money and success. — T. Harv Eker

Pistachio nuts, the red ones, cure any problem. — Paula Danziger

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know? — Walter Kaufmann

All things arise because of their interdependence, and that is why nothing has a separate, independent identity. — Thich Nhat Hanh