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“The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it’s all that matters.” — Audrey Hepburn “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
Any time of year is a good one to peruse this list of short quotes, but you may find the exercise particularly meaningful during transitional moments such as your birthday or as the new year ...
Better safe than sorry; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven (John Milton, in Paradise Lost) [8] Be yourself; Better the Devil you know (than the Devil you do not) Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all; Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness; Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to ...
"Life has become better, life has become happier" [a] is a widespread version of a phrase uttered by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the First All-Union Conference of Stakhanovites on 17 November 1935. [1] The full quote from Joseph Stalin was, when translated into English, is: Life has improved, comrades. Life has become more joyous.
The curse is sometimes presented as the first in a trilogy. Comedic author Terry Pratchett stated: . The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for."
This ethic was articulated by Bessie Anderson Stanley in 1911 (in a quote often misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson): "To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
All it did was illustrate that one person in the 1990s was, at least at the time, not able to find earlier uses; and as an individual's personal website, it isn't a reliable source for much other than that one person's views; and the person in question is not notable in his own right, or a subject-matter expert, making it all quite moot.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis said the story of Jesus' birth as a poor carpenter's son should instil hope that all people can make an impact on the world, as the pontiff on Tuesday led the ...