"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." ― Mark Twain Topic(s): Life Tags: around, saying More From Mark Twain "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." "Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms." "It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races." More In Life "The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one’s life."― Peace Pilgrim "You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."― Henry Drummond "The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."― Albert Einstein