Quotes

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin 

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Ellis 

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov 

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James 

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco 

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha 

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain 

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace 

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre 

Everything in life is luck.
Donald Trump 

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney 

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor 

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche 

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach 

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White 

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth 

I love life because what more is there.
Anthony Hopkins 

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs 

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz 


In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost 

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings 

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw 

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem 

Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie 

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset 

Life is but thought.
Sara Teasdale 

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
George Herbert 

Life is never easy for those who dream.
Robert James Waller 

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz 

Life is wasted on the living.
Douglas Adams 

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney 

Life loves the liver of it.
Maya Angelou 

Life must be lived as play.
Plato 

Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci 

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
Karen Horney 

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
David Lodge 

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Mel Brooks 

On the Day of Gogol's Death

On the Day of Gogol's Death (How blessed's the good-natured poet...) How blessed's the good-natured poet, With little bile and much emotion: All lovers of the gentle arts Send him sincerest greetings; The admiration of the crowd Sounds in his ear like rippling waves; He is a stranger to self-doubt- That torture of creative souls; Lover of comfort and tranquility, Shunning audacious satire, He firmly dominates the crowd With his peace-loving lyre. He is not cursed nor driven out But worshipped for his splendid mind, While all his countrymen prepare A monument to him in life. But fate will show no mercy To one whose noble genius Has led him to unmask the crowd, Expose its passions and mistakes. His heart abrim with hate His lips all clad in satire, He wanders down a thorny path His wrathful lyre in hand. He is reviled at every step: He catches sounds of admiration Not in sweet murmurings of praise But in wild cries of enmity. With disbelief and new belief In his high calling's dream, He preaches love to all Through venomous denial. His speech's every syllable Engenders for him cruel foes, And all men, whether smart or dull, Are quick to vilify him. They curse at him from every side, And only when they see his corpse They'll understand how much he did, And that in hate, he was yet full of love!

Summer

Now it’s the fall but I still miss the summer. I spent most of my summer playing basketball for my national team (Ukraine). My summer started as soon as I finished school in the middle of May. I went to Ukraine and spent couple weeks with my family and friends. It was great seeing them again after only being able talk to them through skype. For about two weeks I was just visiting my uncles, aunties, grandfathers and rest of the family. Then I had to go join my national team at the camp for preparation for European Championship. We had a pretty fun program. We practiced twice a day for about a week then we went to play a tournament in Ankara, Turkey. In that tournament also participated Russia, Turkey, France, Poland, Croatia and of course us. After that we went back to Ukraine. We had couple days off so I was able to hang out with my family again. Then we had a mini tournament in Kiev. We played 3 games against Belarus team. My parents were able to watch me play after for the first time in three years. They were really excited and I was nervous a little bit, because I wanted to do so well. The games went really well, we won all of them. After the tournament we went to Croatia where had a European Championship U-20 there. Tournament started really well for us. We won first 4 out of 5 games. Then we had couple of tough losses but ended up getting a 8^th place. After the last game in the morning a had to go back to United States and start summer school two. I took one class and was working out with my strength coach till the fall. It was a great summer and I cant wait to go back home again.