Life Quotes Quote by Andy Rooney — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.”

“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.”

“I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.”

“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.”

“We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins.”

“Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.”

“We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.”

“Yet, the work was not complete. Next, citing Bond’s veranda and our subsequent construction of it as an example, Sanjit elaborated on the thought which he had previously teased, but not fully explained: that when a reader reads, the reader constructs a setting and world and is able to view themselves through this world. However, he also added that when we read, we are not only able to see our constructed world, but to evaluate our constructed world. This is how, Sanjit would argue, we influence and better ourselves, even if unintentionally; for by pausing and analyzing our constructions we may be able to identify our assumptions about people, places, or things. And it is in this way that books may be an expressed form of art, not just for the writer, but also for the reader.”

“The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”

“You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.”