Mencius quote: "We live, not as we wish to, but as we can."

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
MENANDER

People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER

Who cares what are you eating??
Who cares where are you?
Who cares what are you posting??<...
DEYTH BANGER Wishing on that far away star, how far removed we truly are.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives an...
S. I. HAYAKAWA It is not true that 'we have only one life to live'; if we can read, we can live as many more lives ...
S.I. HAYAKAWA We cannot wish for that we know not.
VOLTAIRE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We must live not as we like, but as we can.
VIKRANT PARSAI We live in relative world with relatives.
DEYTH BANGER What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...

Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
CHE GUAVARA I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now."
"Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur...
LAUREN OLIVER To say to that you will never forget ,is always a sincere and an honest way to express ones self to ...
GARY F EVANS... In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts."
"Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ...
E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat...
E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
E. LOCKHART In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will...
S. I. HAYAKAWA We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
EPICTETUS We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not happen
DAN QUAYLE It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
AYN RAND And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We live in blatantly corrupt times.
STEVEN MAGEE When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a...
BRENT M. JONES We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live wit...
SENECA We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Could it be possible for humanity to put their differences aside for the survival of our species, un...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN People are attracted to who we are more than what we do.
LORRIN L. LEE We each can accomplish so much in this world. There is no room for boredom
ROXE Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... You either have the feeling or you don’t.
DANIEL HANDLER And when I saw you kissing that girl
My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered
And ...
KATE NASH We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER Sisi wote ni wanafunzi.
ENOCK MAREGESI Created visions of experiencing unreality.
VICDO This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS I know what you might be thinking here on your own, but those thoughts won’t last for ever,’ I s...
SARAH MOORE FITZGERALD It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL We do not write as we want to but as we can
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
ARISTOTLE Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
EPICTETUS When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI We don't live as God intended us to, but we live as the Devil wants us to.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON We dream. We aspire. We hope. Sure, we can get down too. But it's not about that. It's not those mom...
ZECHARIAH BARRETT Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST There's no "i" in we, but it is in egoic. When you think about we instead of me, then and only then ...
CELESTINE L. GRAY We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mist...
VERONICA ROSSI The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
CHINESE PROVERB For years I thought we were on the same page...then I discovered we were NOT even in the same book.....
KJFORCE We are all joined in a circle of stories.
LINDA JOY MYERS There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evildoer.
ROBERT LYND Normally, we're never satisfied.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose
PARKER LOUIS SEELY All my life I have overheard, all my life I have listened to what people will let slip when they thi...
PATRICIA LOCKWOOD Never eat anything bigger than your ass.
E. LOCKHART We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. We live, least in the summertime, on a priva...
E. LOCKHART Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...

Silence doesn't make it... bet...
DEYTH BANGER Our gods are here, below, with us---in the office, the kitchen, the workshop, the toilet; the gods h...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY He blesses us so we can be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I became an ifrit to save the lives of my fellow jinn. What kind of life saver would I be if I let y...
JACKSON PEARCE what did you think would happen—best case? She’ll forget about you when you return to Caliban, y...
JACKSON PEARCE She’s forgotten me. It’s over. I don’t want to see her again, and now I’ll have to. I won’...
JACKSON PEARCE I think we’re always looking for new pieces,” Viola says quietly.

What?
...
JACKSON PEARCE Enjoying life does not mean we have to live our dreams and do what we wish, but we have to make othe...
ANUJ SOMANY We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR Life is hell, at some point we all just have to get used to it.
ALYSHA SPEER Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.
LOUIS XIV We are sinners. But we should not take the failure to live up to this high moral standard as an auth...
POPE BENEDICT XVI We may not always be able to be as happy as we want to be, but if we try we will always be as happy ...
JIM GENOVESE Not all of us wish we could get, as not all we get is what we want
LYZ STANDSTRODE We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.
SHELLEY DUVALL We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

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