When I feel bad, I work. When I have problems, when I'm depressed, when I'm bored with life, I sit down to my work. There are probably other prescriptions, but I don't know them. Or they don't work for me. You want my advice -- here it is Go and work. Thank God that people like you and me need only paper and pencil to work.
– Strugatsky
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what'
– Sydney Harris
When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.
– Akhenaton
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
– Winston Churchill
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me.
– Erma Bombeck
When I think back on all the blessings I have been given in my life, I can't think of a single one, unless you count that rattlesnake that granted me all those wishes.
– Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy -- but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.
– Martin Gore
When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
– Shakti Gawain
When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.
– Dean Koontz, Shadow Fires ( early book)
When life is kicking others in the teeth, Become a dentist.
– Kevin Meyers
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash...Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
– Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own.
– Real Live Preacher
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
– Samuel Johnson
When morning silvers the dark firmament, Why shrills the bird of dawning his lament? It is to show in dawn?s bright looking-glass How of thy careless life a night is spent.
– Omar Khayyam
When people say that the desert is lifeless, it just makes me want to grab them by the collar and yell, 'Why you stupid, stupid bastard' Then I drive them out into the desert to where the circus is, and point out the many forms of zebra and clown life.
When the burden of life becomes heavier, when it starts crushing our shoulders with all its might, it is time to be stronger!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
When the life is wavy, keep your mind smooth!
When we can say "no" not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.
– Charles A. Stoddard
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
– Helen Keller
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
When we hold back on life, life holds us back.
– Mary Manin Boggs
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
– Mark Twain
When you are on the bright side of life, do not forget the people who are on the dark side and remember that man can easily slip from one side to the other!
When you come across with a problem in your life, do not always try to solve it; make a long jump like a kangaroo and continue your way! Sometimes problems must be leaped over without touching them!
When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.
– Douglas Lurtan
