Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it needs is courage, imagination … and a little dough. – Charlie Chaplin [Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin] (1889 – 1977): Limelight (Image by jo bi from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by… More »
You cannot do much about the length of your life, but you can do a lot about its depth and width. More »
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. – Bertolt Brecht (1898 – 1956) More »
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. – Susan Sontag (1933 – 2004): The Benefactor More »
The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. – Benjamin (Elijah) Mays (1894 – 1984) More »
The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops… More »
命は死ぬことで失われるのではない。命は刻一刻と失われている。だらだらと過ごす日々のうちに、数え切れず小さいがゆえに見過ごされて行くあらゆる点で。 – スティーブン・ヴィンセント・ベネ［ベネー／ベネット］ (1898 – 1943) More »
我々が生きていく中で為すべきことは、他人を追い抜くことではなく自分自身を乗り越えること――自己の記録を破り、昨日の自分を今日の自分が上回ることなのだ。 – スチュアート・Ｂ・ジョンソン (1938 – ) More »
テレビは実生活ではありません。あなたの人生はホームコメディーではありません。あなたの問題は、コマーシャルの時間を差し引いた30分ですべて解決されるわけではありません。実生活では、人々は実際には仕事に行くために喫茶店を離れなければなりません。あなたの友達はジェニファー・アニストンほど元気でしなやかではありません。 – チャーリー・サイクス［チャールズ・Ｊ・サイクス］ (1954 – ): 『わが子の知能を低下させる』 / (ジェニファー・アニストンはアメリカ合衆国の女優、テレビドラマのホームコメディー『フレンズ』のレイチェル・グリーン役で知られる。) (Thomas BによるPixabayからの画像) (Google Translateのエンジンを使用した、Sound of Textによるテキスト読み上げ) More »
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what’s best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you’re banging your… More »
![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us [the one which has opened for us].](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/doors-20172_640_alexander-graham-bell-402095_640-100x75.jpg)
![IMAGE: Do not pass judgment, that you may not be judged; for the way you judge you will be judged and with what yardstick you measure you will be measured. But why notice the splinter in your brother's eye without taking notice of the beam in your own eye? [Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/sculpture-3408348_640-100x66.jpg)