Domian Asphalt Quotes & Sayings

Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person. — Herbert Spencer

Disappointment is considered bad. A thoughtless prejudice. How, if not through disappointment, should we discover what we have expected and hoped for? And where, if not in this discovery, should self-knowledge lie? So how could one gain clarity about oneself without disappointment?
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One could have the hope that he would become more real by reducing expectations, shrink to a hard, reliable core and thus be immune to the pain of disappointment. But how would it be to lead a life that banished every long, bold expectation, a life where there were only banal expectations like "the bus is coming"? — Pascal Mercier

Life is growth and the object of right thinking is to promote that growth. — Christian D. Larson

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics. — Eric Cantona

Being able to restrain my emotions isn't a great victory - it's the pitiful proof of lost love. — Amy Tan

I possess no weapon but love. With that I have come to do battle. Help me! — Nikos Kazantzakis

If you judge people, you don't have time to love them. — Mother Teresa

Nobody in this country is on Social Security because they made the decision when they were starting work at 14 that they wanted to trust some of their money with the government. The government took it out of their check whether they wanted them to or not. — Mike Huckabee

From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn't see that. — Mary J. Blige

You could never 'toss' your emotional baggage. You could only store it in an overhead compartment that might burst open at any given moment. — S.A. Lusher

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world. — Patti Smith

Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world. — Archibald Hill

Artemis was propped on his elbows. "You hit me," he said in disbelief. — Eoin Colfer