quotes on loneliness

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. ~William McFee



I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. ~Chuang Tzu I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb. ~Vaslav Nijinsky



Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity. ~C.S.Lewis



The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. ~Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers



Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire. ~Virgil



We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ~Hilaire Belloc



It is better to wear out than to rust out. ~Richard Cumberland



There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. ~Woody Hayes



There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both. ~James Reston



We come, not to mourn our dead soldiers, but to praise them. ~Francis A. Walker



What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes. ~Timothy Virkkala



Choices are the hinges of destiny. ~Attributed to both Edwin Markham and Pythagoras



Another effective technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an embarrassed "Never mind, I see what's wrong. Sorry to bother you." This works remarkably well; you can even use non-programmers as listeners. One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counselor. ~Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, about debugging



You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. ~Douglas MacArthur



Life is a song. Love is the music. ~Author Unknown



You have it in your power to turn a bad-beat around simply by realizing this simple truth: The more bad beats you encounter, the luckier you are. It's a sign that you are playing against opponents who continually take the worst of it, and if you can't beat someone who always takes the worst of it, you can't beat anyone. ~Lou Krieger



Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference. ~Arie Pencovici



When mom and dad don't understand, a sister always will. ~Author Unknown



A man will turn over half a library to make one book. ~Samuel Johnson



What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? ~Lin Yutang

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