Diplasiology Quotes & Sayings

No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness. — Gail Sheehy

Take 5 is the practice if spending 5 minutes a day giving focused attention to your hopes for your talent. — Don Maruska

paradises are usually places where you get killed. The — Rick Riordan

Sometimes the best course in the search for the meaning of life is to busy yourself until you forget that you don't know the meaning of life — Amanda Hocking

I like to compete. I think competition brings out the best in anybody. — Charles Tillman

Still, he watched intently as she began her descent, ready to grab her arm should she waver. "You're hovering," she said without turning. "Hovering is my job." "That's debatable." "No, actually, it isn't," he said, flatly. "Humph." They'd reached the ground floor now and she turned to walk toward the back of the house. He grimaced as he took the last step overly hard on his bad leg. She didn't turn, but he noticed that she slowed her pace for him. — Elizabeth Hoyt

Admittedly, given the Dreamland's tendency towards the dramatic, should any ship come to the island it would probably be full of cannibalistic pirates, piratical cannibals, Jehovah's witnesses or similar. That was acceptable, however. He was sure they could come to some arrangement that didn't involve any unpleasantness. Any unpleasantness to himself,at any rate. — Jonathan L. Howard

I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything. — Bob Ehrlich

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history. — Pierre Salinger

But everyone knows someone who has died, I said.
Why is it so hard to think about dying?
'Because,' Morrie continued, 'most of us walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.'
And facing death changes all that?
'Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials. When you realize you are going to die, you see everything much differently.'
He sighed. 'Learn how to die, and you learn how to live. — Mitch Albom

The only way to live is to forget that you're going to die. Death is unimportant. The fear of it should never influence a single action of the wise man. — W. Somerset Maugham