Life Learning Magazine Quotes & Sayings

When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued. — Wangari Maathai

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it. — Ramakrishna

Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith. — Rich Lowry

We need to figure out how to connect people to jobs. — Rob Portman

When a man does not live with his children and does not get along with the mother of his children, his fatherhood becomes essentially untenable, regardless of how he feels, how hard he tries, or whether he is a good guy. Almost by definition, he has become de-fathered. — David Blankenhorn

He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses for others and be their secret operator
though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed. — John Barth

Thomas Jefferson asked himself "In what country on earth would you rather live " He first answered "Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life." But he continued "which would be your second choice " His answer "France. — Thomas Jefferson

Love is a double-edged sword. It can be a gift from God or a curse from the devil, all depending on how you chose to wield it. — K'wan

I try to write about internal experience versus the external self. I like to present ideas, but not package them neatly. — Rebecca Stead

Sorry," she said. "I have a psychological disorder that prevents me from keeping thoughts inside my head where they belong. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market. — Ron Chernow

The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never disappear in the way we think they should, but maybe they don't need to. Trauma is an ineradicable aspect of life. We are human as a result of it, not in spite of it. — Mark Epstein

Mae's first impulse was to die of shame, but she realized after a hot, stomach-clenching moment that this was probably impractical. — Sarah Rees Brennan