Side Quotes

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.

If envy were a fever all the world would be ill.

Other people's eggs have two yolks.

Just because you're beautiful they think you can't act.... I've got a lot more to prove.

It is all right to say exactly what you think if you have learned to think exactly.

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

Time-our youth-it never really goes does it? It is all held in our minds.

Nobody's problem is ideal. Nobody has things just as he would like them.

Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Wanting to change to improve a person's situation means offering him for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold in the heart.

We always long for forbidden things k and desire what is denied us.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

Jealousy that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite lose her waistline her bust-line her ability to bear a child even her sense of humor but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality her femininity.

Frankly I like the fact that I no longer fit the young beauty type-people take me more seriously now.

You know how many stunning women told me they can't stand a good-looking man? ... Women feel secure with an ugly guy because a man in bad shape isn't gonna cheat.

Let us accept truth even when it surprises us and alters our views.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is a dissatisfaction with self.

I intimidate men.... People look a lot but there's no line outside my door.

The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attractive tales and tell things, people like to hear. But the post-factual grassland often appears to be parched and barren. ("The grass was greener over there")

The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.

... You asked how am I?? Really?? So you care about me?? or you just decided to ask to return it back because people have learnt you to return everything back, what he has done to you to do the same to him. To behave in the same way, yeah but without curiousity to focus on this is like to go and get fucked by everyone starting from the bin guy (the guy who search food in the garbage) up to the guy who is rich. If you like that, I will say that there is some kind of problem with you, how can you even havee a sex with the garbage man.... oh, oh yeah if you are one of them you are out of this place. If you help this garbage man to succeed it goes that he develops something better and from poor up to rich... But to reach there you need time, you need to believe in that person, but again doesn't it disgusting this thing. Look it from side like Monk, how can you even touch such person??

Every stage of life has its troubles and no man is content with his own age.

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.

Break every chain of mediocrity that confines you. You may have begun at a level below average, but dare to leave that side and paddle your steps to cross the river with honours.

My crown is called content a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

Not all speed is movement.

I will become an ocean and make you my greatest secret ever, I'll keep thousands of demons to guard my secret. I'll create storms that none has ever seen. I will lure everyone to the darkest sides and will destroy them if they try to reach you and see what I am hiding back in my heart.

When you've got the personality you don't need the nudity.

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

How long can you be cute?

I look forward to being older when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the i point.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point in the face of all the propaganda is how few Americans actually live this way.

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered "Somebody else's."

It is so comical to hear oneself called old even at ninety I suppose!

Envy comes from people's ignorance of or lack of belief in their own gifts.

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver or of gold you long for simple pewter.

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

None of us is ever satisfied with what we are.

We are under the spell always of what is distant from us. It is not in our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.

The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.

What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

When I was fourteen I was the oldest I ever was. ... I've been getting younger ever since.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty or go to a concert when I like.

Outstanding beauty like outstanding gifts of any kind tends to get in the way of normal emotional development and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.