FastSaying

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.


Thor Heyerdahl

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the...
DAISAKU IKEDA It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among peop...
THOR HEYERDAHL The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Under the pathologist's microscope, life and death fight in an illuminated circle in a sort of cellu...
YANN MARTEL I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Selfishness is easy to find. Selflessness is a much rarer beast.
STEWART STAFFORD How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles
HELEN SCHUCMAN You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER There isn't an hour of my life without you in it. I mend the boats, test them and all the while the ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
CHARLES PEGUY The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
ALLEN GINSBERG A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
JUVENAL This instant is the only time there is.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I am never upset for the reason I think.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Teach only love for that is what you are.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only my condemnation injures me.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only your mind can produce fear.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Love is like a circle, a circle big and round. An individual can draw a circle around him or her and...
C. LIDE SANGTAM Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good!
SILVIA HARTMANN The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...

That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."

Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison....
KEITH R.A. DECANDIDO These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON This is the spot where I will lie
When life has had enough of me,
These are the grasses ...
SARA TEASDALE I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert....
LEV GROSSMAN Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.
GRATEFUL DEAD Tea followers were among the earliest converts to the Christian faith. Takayama Ukon, a daimyo turne...
F. CALVIN PARKER Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from t...
THOR HEYERDAHL I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but r...
THOR HEYERDAHL Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
THOR HEYERDAHL We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has ...
THOR HEYERDAHL In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will per...
THOR HEYERDAHL Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communic...
THOR HEYERDAHL Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
THOR-HEYERDAHL Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.
THOR HEYERDAHL Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
THOR HEYERDAHL Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the power...
THOR HEYERDAHL I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exi...
THOR HEYERDAHL Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is mo...
THOR HEYERDAHL But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely ...
THOR HEYERDAHL Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nati...
THOR HEYERDAHL I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the...
THOR HEYERDAHL A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn&#...
THOR HEYERDAHL I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt th...
THOR HEYERDAHL One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live ...
THOR HEYERDAHL Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the a...
THOR HEYERDAHL For every minute, the future is becoming the past.
THOR HEYERDAHL During times of sour or bad relationship a good person will always exhibit a pleasant character.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL Sometimes trying to know someone so well is not always good.
UZOMA NNADI The rarer action isIn virtue than in vengeance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This is the secret of happiness that you have been looking for:

If you are moving in the ...
ABRAHAM HICKS Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness.
BARBARA KATZ ROTHMAN Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... You can coddle your rage, or you can fully engage.
TONY CLEAVER Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will m...
CLARENCE DARROW She really has had a large impact on the way that I think and the way that I go about my daily busin...
JOSEPH FALL Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q...
JAMES RHODES Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
WILLIAM SLIM She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about o...
FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about o...
FREDERICK W. FABER Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

More Thor Heyerdahl

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from t...
THOR HEYERDAHL I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but r...
THOR HEYERDAHL Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
THOR HEYERDAHL We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has ...
THOR HEYERDAHL It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among peop...
THOR HEYERDAHL In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will per...
THOR HEYERDAHL Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communic...
THOR HEYERDAHL Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
THOR-HEYERDAHL Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.
THOR HEYERDAHL Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
THOR HEYERDAHL Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the power...
THOR HEYERDAHL I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exi...
THOR HEYERDAHL Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is mo...
THOR HEYERDAHL But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely ...
THOR HEYERDAHL Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nati...
THOR HEYERDAHL I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the...
THOR HEYERDAHL A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn&#...
THOR HEYERDAHL I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt th...
THOR HEYERDAHL One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live ...
THOR HEYERDAHL Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the a...
THOR HEYERDAHL For every minute, the future is becoming the past.
THOR HEYERDAHL Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.
CHRISTOPHER HEYERDAHL Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.
CHRISTOPHER HEYERDAHL In some ways, it's better that Obama got elected than McCain. I'd rather be stabbed in the c...
BRAD THOR There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.
BRAD THOR The Tea Party is clearing gunk out of the fuel lines of this country. It started with throwing out D...
BRAD THOR Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, you'll reap the same rewards.
BRAD THOR Authors should do multiple submissions to agents. I mean, that's the way the business world work...
BRAD THOR From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are y...
BRAD THOR Making the best-seller list is a big deal; it's like being nominated for an Oscar. Hitting No. 1...
BRAD THOR After the Berlin Wall came down and Communism was on the run, I looked around and wondered what the ...
BRAD THOR What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all a...
BRAD THOR Let me make this very clear: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, our digital exhaust is being sucked up b...
BRAD THOR My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of ...
BRAD THOR I had been fascinated with Islam since college - particularly how it could inspire such fervor in ou...
BRAD THOR Some of the best fan mail I get are from our men and women in the military and intelligence communit...
BRAD THOR The longer it takes Microsoft to address a known vulnerability, the higher the probability that one ...
THOR LARHOLM The Afghans I met were some of the nicest and most honorable people I've ever encountered. There...
BRAD THOR My intent is not to inflame Muslims but to entertain readers of great thrillers. At the end of the d...
BRAD THOR We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and ...
BRAD THOR I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave.
BRAD THOR 'The Last Patriot' is set in the present day but is based upon the premise that the Prophet ...
BRAD THOR Microsoft is no longer the worst offender when it comes to sitting on patches. Oracle has taken that...
THOR LARHOLM If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look li...
BRAD THOR They're both inappropriate men who are honest about themselves, and that's extraordinarily appealing...
CAMERON THOR I wanted to live the life my characters were living, so I rented a yacht and sailed from Naples to C...
BRAD THOR For all the stuff he likes to get printed about himself -- he very carefully nurtures the image of t...
CAMERON THOR If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.
BRAD THOR I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main ...
BRAD THOR ...all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patc...
BRAD THOR I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right ...
BRAD THOR ... have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.
BRAD THOR You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help...
BRAD THOR I write about things that are important for us as Americans. I'm concerned about al-Qaeda sneaki...
BRAD THOR The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in...
BRAD THOR My #1 job as a thriller author is to give readers the best white-knuckle thrill ride I am capable of...
BRAD THOR In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation ...
BRAD THOR The voice soared majestically, hugely, in the role, flooding the house with opulent, gleaming tones.
THOR ECKERT JR.