inspirational tattoo quotes and sayings

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. ~Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living: Diaries



Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak.



Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. ~Ugo Betti



Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death. ~Kenneth Patchen



What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs. ~Harry Caray



The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. ~William Lyon Phelps



Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without. ~Martin H. Fischer



The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more. ~Kin Hubbard



Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. ~Samuel Johnson



The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. ~Ross MacDonald



Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past? ~John Leonard



Opportunity is a bird that never perches. ~Claude McDonald



In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878



No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy. ~Knights of Pythagoras (Thanks, Jim)



It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola. ~Clare Short



The self-appointed spokesmen for God incline to shout; He, Himself, speaks only in whispers. ~Martin H. Fischer



I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966