Muistoja Quotes & Sayings

Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make. — Joyce Meyer

All of us at reddit work here because we think that reddit is a community like none other. We think it can be a powerful force to change the world for the better. — Yishan Wong

In their perverted way all humanity imitates you. Yet they put themselves at a distance from you and exalt themselves against you. But even by thus imitating you they acknowledge that you are the creator of all nature and so concede that there is no palace where one can entirely escape from you. — Augustine Of Hippo

I don't really look at myself as a role model. And I just am the way I am and if people want to look up to me, they do. By no means do I like to give a negative image either. — Jordan Knight

For somewhere reigns an old hostility / between living one's Life and doing one's Work. — Rainer Maria Rilke

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself. — Clifton Fadiman

In 5,000 years of recorded human history ... neither in the east or in the west ... has any society ever defined marriage as anything other than between men and women. Not one in 5000 years of recorded human history.
That's an astounding fact and it isn't until the last 12 years or so that we have seen for the first time in recorded human history marriage defined as anything other than between men and between women. — Michele Bachmann

All good storytellers are of necessity good writers - even if they may be poorly edited ones. Unfortunately, not all good writers are good storytellers. — Nupur Tustin

Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They can learn a language - sign language - and they can use the signs. But when you think of our intellects, even the brightest chimp looks like a very small child. — Jane Goodall