#life

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#did #his #i #know #life

The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#experience

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing? ↗

— Bo Bennett

#happiness #life #means #pursuing #spent

We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#end #fools #life #living #over

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired. ↗

— William Banting

#active life #anxiety #bodily #business #business career

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn. ↗

— William Banting

#argument #articles #beans #beneficial #certain

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#dreams #life #life is a #only #themselves

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#away #because #goes #how #learning

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way. ↗

— William Barclay

#going #him #insist #know #knowing

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive. ↗

— William Barclay

#anyone #begins #company #hearts #life