#ife

I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#bring #families #generation #great #great way

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#early life #electricity #even #food #grow

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#believe #business #else #good #got

My life has been very full. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#full #life #my life #very

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#heaven #hell #life #only #thing

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#discover #does #know #least #life

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#art #concerns #constant #continues #creates

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#grant #greatest #greatest gift #life #surprise

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#always #art #been #bought #children

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#consequences #direct #direct result #i #i am