Gutes Leben Quotes & Sayings

Her basic disposition was a good deal sunnier than mine. But I was a better faker. — Jonathan Kellerman

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. — Henry David Thoreau

You've got the right of it. My wife. . . my duchess, she must be beyond reproach. We can never be in the gossips' stews. — Eva Devon

Many can argue that reality is as it is, but my experience is that the opposite is exactly true. Reality is ours for the making. — Asara Lovejoy

We hastily call someone a friend. — Nabil N. Jamal

I'm like one of those leaves on the city ground, who lived thinking it would be everlasting and died without knowing exactly why; who loved the sun and the moon and who watched those buses and rattling streetcars go by for a long time, and yet no one ever had the courtesy to let her know that winter existed. They lived it up, until one day they began to turn yellow and the tree bid them farewell. It didn't say "see you later" but "good-bye," knowing the leaves would never be back. And it asked the wind for help loosening them from their branches and carrying them far away. The tree knows it can grow only if it rests. And if it grows, it will be respected. And can produce even more beautiful flowers. — Paulo Coelho

If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble. — Gary Hamel

One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting. — Sidney Nolan

Simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them. — Paulo Coelho

I wasn't sure what expression I was expecting her to wear when she saw that it was me. I'd braced myself for disgust or anger. But she just
looked at me like I was - nothing. An annoyance, maybe. — Maggie Stiefvater