Poignant Birthday Quotes & Sayings

I am but a miserable sinner, but I have found, in my long life, that the cenobite has no foe worse than sadness. — Anatole France

There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance. — Olive Schreiner

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. — Miguel De Unamuno

When America is stronger, the world is safer. — George H. W. Bush

Some say "The end is near," as if that is shocking news. The truth is, the end is always near. What is actually shocking is that we, ourselves, can help to choose which end. — T.A. Barron

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people. — Peter Oliver

The constraints that humankind has set upon itself are so narrow, so rigid. If you don't wear your clothes one day, they'll lock you up. That's a pretty simple action. — Frederick Lenz

The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world ... — Rumi

It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is — Plutarch

But still, he reflected, I ought to wash my pajamas more often. Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.
Tengo, IQ84 — Haruki Murakami