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It is not doing the thing we like to do but liking the thing we have to do that makes life blessed.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Category: Life

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us one saying 'Why not?' and the other 'Why bother?'
  • 2. The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
  • 3. An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
  • 2. It's amazing what a spray-on tan will do.
  • 3. Good acting is good acting however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted – he's learned technique by working with people early on.

3 Anger

  • 1. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
  • 2. I did not think that I was angry but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.
  • 3. Anger may repast with thee for an hour but not repose for a night the continuance of anger is hatred the continuance of hatred turns malice.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love trust partnership tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
  • 2. I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
  • 3. Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture is my work and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
  • 2. If you examine this I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.
  • 3. I see architecture not as Gropius did as a moral venture as truth but as invention in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
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