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Life is a constant oscillation
between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
- H. L. Mencken
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It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken
Marriage is a wonderful institution,
but who would want to live in an institution?
- H. L. Mencken
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
- H. L. Mencken
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- H. L. Mencken
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
For every complex problem,
there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
- H.L. Mencken
Puritanism. The haunting fear that
someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- H. L. Mencken
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
- H. L. Mencken
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband
a month before she marries him
and what she thinks of him a year afterward,
and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken
The urge to save humanity is almost always
a false front for the urge to rule.
- H. L. Mencken
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- H. L. Mencken
For centuries, theologians have been explaining
the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
- H. L. Mencken
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief
in the occurrence of the improbable.
- H. L. Mencken
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
- H. L. Mencken
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. Mencken
The objection to Puritans is not that
they try to make us think as they do,
but that they try to make us do as they think.
- H. L. Mencken
The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken
The believing mind is eternally impervious to evidence.
- H. L. Mencken
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
- Frank Herbert
Life is a balance between rest and movement.
- Osho
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Go forth, and play joyfully in the garden of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The greatest obstacle to a Joyful Life
is your "story" about your life.
Your story is filled with perceives needs and obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.
- Maya Angelou
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life ain't always beautiful,
but it's a beautiful ride.
- Gary Allen
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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