Mia Trillanes's favorite quotes

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, fate, life, planning, plans

7,051 people liked it

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: chocolate, food, humor

2,969 people liked it

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

tags: greatness

2,760 people liked it

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: books, humor

823 people liked it

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
— George Burns

tags: family, happiness, humor

665 people liked it

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live"
— Yutang Lin

tags: life

21 people liked it

"Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or
make excuses. "
— Brian Tracy

tags: life, wisdom

73 people liked it

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
— George Burns

tags: life

13 people liked it

"If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you
must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development."
— Brian Tracy

tags: life, wisdom

9 people liked it

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
— Guillaume Apollinaire

tags: happiness, life

155 people liked it

"Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky."
— Barbara Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible)

tags: life

113 people liked it

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are
going.
"
— Brian Tracy

tags: life, wisdom

58 people liked it

"After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die."
— E.B. White (Charlotte's Web)

tags: birth, death, life

35 people liked it

"There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: life

14 people liked it

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
— Albert Einstein

tags: life

581 people liked it

"I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness."
— Bill Watterson

tags: calvin-and-hobbes, humor, life

475 people liked it

"If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

tags: life

423 people liked it

"I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, life, wisdom

214 people liked it

"You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in..."
— Nick Hornby (How to Be Good)

tags: happiness, life, survival

30 people liked it

"It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious."
— John Irving (The Hotel New Hampshire)

tags: art, life, work

36 people liked it

"My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
"
— Ed Furgol

tags: humor, life, truth

14 people liked it

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

tags: exercise, humor, laziness

5,980 people liked it

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

5,153 people liked it

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
— Bill Cosby

tags: failure, inspirational, success

2,396 people liked it

"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. "
— W.C. Fields

tags: humor, sinister

2,081 people liked it

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: dreams, life

2,164 people liked it

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor

2,200 people liked it

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
— Confucius

2,182 people liked it

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
— Mark Twain

tags: greatness

2,032 people liked it

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

tags: chocolate, friendship

2,067 people liked it

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