Lifeskills Quotes & Sayings

Why was "plain" a euphemism for "ugly," when the very hallmark of human beauty was its plainness, the symmetry and simplicity that always seemed so young and so innocent. It was impossible not to think that here beauty was one of the most important things about her - something having to do with who she really was. — Elif Batuman

Our lives on earth aren't just placeholders until we go to heaven. We are to create, cultivate, and redeem while we're here. The misconception, I've realized, has come from a lack of knowledge of why we were created. — Jefferson Bethke

Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.' — Adrienne Bailon

I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month. — Steve Cropper

We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us. — Lauren Oliver

Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name? — Adam Carolla

There is a girl.
I named her love.
She has a father.
His name is desire.
Her mother has a name,
but not always the same.
We call her destiny.
Love calls her mommy. — Debasish Mridha

That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have been removed, was now set free. — Ivo Andric

In all your getting, get understand. Proverbs paraphrased — Katie Canty

He got up and walked out to the road. The black shape of it running from dark to dark. Then the distant low rumble. Not thunder. You could feel it under your feet. A sound without cognate and so without description. Something imponderable shifting out there in the dark. The earth itself contracting with the cold. It did not come again. What time of year? What age the child? He walked out into the road and stood. The silence. The salitter drying from the earth. The mudstained shapes of flooded cities burned to the waterline. At a crossroads a ground set with dolmen stones where the spoken bones of oracles lay moldering. No sound but the wind. What will you say? A living man spoke these lines? He sharpened a quill with his small pen knife to scribe these things in sloe or lampblack? At some reckonable and entabled moment? He is coming to steal my eyes. To seal my mouth with dirt. — Cormac McCarthy

Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive. — W.C. Fields

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday. — Robert A. Heinlein

The greatest gift that we can give is our forgiveness, kindness, and above all, our pure love. — Debasish Mridha

And maybe one day I'll be found, and someone will explain to me why I am the way that I am. Or maybe not. After all, some stories aren't meant to be told. — Jenny Lawson