40 Days Quotes

Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.

The statistics of suicide show that for non-combatants at least life is more interesting in war than in peace.

Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.

If your daily life seems poor do not blame it blame yourself tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underuse of a good mind.

Somebody's boring me I think it's me.

When you stop learning stop listening stop looking and asking questions always new questions then it is time to die.

When people are bored it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

Boredom is a sickness of the soul.

Boredom is simply the lack of imagination.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner the whole world opens up to you.

If something is boring after two minutes try it for four. If still boring try it for eight sixteen thirty-two and so on. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting.

The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else to do something kind and good.

Everything considered work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Dullness is a misdemeanor.

Passions are less mischievous than boredom for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.

It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Boredom like necessity is very often the mother of invention.

An enthusiast may bore others but he has never a dull moment himself.

Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far I had a good day. I got a dial tone.

Thy fate is the common fate of all Into each life some rain must fall Some days must be dark and dreary.

Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch.

Some days the dragon wins.

Experience cold or heat pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.

To everything there is a season A time for every purpose under heaven.... A time to weep and a time to laugh A time to mourn and a time to dance.

Let nothing disturb thee Let nothing affright thee All things are passing God changeth never.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was number one on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

Sadness and gladness succeed each other.

I don't think that ... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death....

Life comes in clusters clusters of solitude then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop there is no wind that always blows a storm.

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn.

There are trees that seem to die at the end of autumn. There are also the evergreens.

For lo the winter is past the rain is over and gone the flowers appear on the earth.

You will suffer and you will hurt. You will have joy and you will have peace.

Pain is part of being alive and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever nor is it necessarily unbearable and we need to be taught that.

Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience day by day Even this shall pass away.

I've been failing for like ten or eleven years. When it turns it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period get the movie out and put my things in order.

I've never been poor only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Our toil is sweet with thankfulness Our burden is our boon The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.

We may draw good outof evil we must not do evil that good may come.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Perhaps someday it will be pleasant to remember even this.

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

Time in the turning-over of days works change for better or worse.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run the truth that finally overtakes you.

Time is like a river of fleeting events and its current is strong as soon as something comes into sight it is swept past us and something else takes its place and that too will be swept away.

Time cools time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit.