Life Quotes Quote by Jimmy Carter — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.”

“Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.”

“Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.”

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”

“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”