The essential
conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
-- Nadia Boulanger
1887-1979, Conductor, Composer,
Teacher |
Youth is too
tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The
period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate,
and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
-- Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author,
Lawyer |
Don't be afraid of
death so much as an inadequate life.
-- Bertolt Brecht
1898-1956, German Dramatist, Poet |
Why does life keep
teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?
-- © Ashleigh Brilliant
1933-, British-born American
Humorist ["Ashleigh Brilliant epigrams ("BRILLIANT THOUGHTS" ®)
are individually protected by international copyright, and
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www.ashleighbrilliant.com] |
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Life may have no
meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I
disapprove.
-- © Ashleigh Brilliant
1933-, British-born American
Humorist ["Ashleigh Brilliant epigrams ("BRILLIANT THOUGHTS" ®)
are individually protected by international copyright, and
appear here by special permission. All rights reserved. Visit
www.ashleighbrilliant.com] |
What should I say
about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
-- Joseph Brodsky
1940-, Russian-born American
Poet, Critic |
Be such a man, and
live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every
life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
-- Phillips Brooks
1835-1893, American Minister,
Poet |
The tragedy of
life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Broun
1888-1939, American Journalist,
Novelist |
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