inspirational quotes about life tattoos

If your lens is prejudice, you're wearing the wrong prescription. ~Carrie Latet



It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. ~Edgar W. Howe



The truth is that it is natural, as well as necessary, for every man to be a vagabond occasionally. ~Samuel H. Hammond



Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved. ~Augusta E. Rundel



Fame is proof that the people are gullible. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep. ~Author Unknown



If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on the human face - forever. ~George Orwell



Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go. ~Blaise Pascal



Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism? ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead



We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ~Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711



He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb



The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ~William Blake



Curling rocks! ~Saying of the sport



Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hopes that the cow will back up to them. ~Elbert Hubbard



Nothing that is complete breathes. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Censorship offends me. ~Author Unknown



Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. ~Soren Kierkegaard



It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens. ~Cynthia E. Varnado



Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. ~Montaigne, Essays, 1588



And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin