“Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.”
“Life is short, but the years are long.”
Part of the secret "call and response" codewords by which members of the long-lived Howard Families can identify others:
: Life is short.
But the years are long.
Not while the evil days come not.
Methuselah's Children (1958)
“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.”
“If you even dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize.”
“What keeps me going is goals.”
“The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.”
Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
“Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.”
Variant: Someone who is a clever speaker and maintains a 'too-smiley' face is seldom considered a humane person.
Source: The Analects, Chapter I
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter II: On discursiveness in reading, Line 6.
This has been reported as a remark Gagarin made while in orbit aboard Vostok 1, but there is no indication of it in the official transcripts of his communications. It is similar to the above statements he reportedly made after his return to earth, which might have given rise to this account.
Misattributed
“There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.”
“Belief in the unreal can comfort the human mind, but it also weakens it.”
Raised by Wolves, season 1, episode 1. Mother.
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
As quoted in Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior (1991) by Dan Millman, p. 78
Life’s not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.
As quoted in "They Came to Write in Hawai‘i" by Joseph Theroux, in Spirit of Aloha (March/April 2007)
“The trick is growing up without growing old.”
“You need a reason to be angry. You don't need a reason to be happy.”
Sideways Stories From Wayside School
Source: Sideways Stories from Wayside School
“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Variant: You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.
