December 31, 2011

David McCullough: Once upon...

Once upon a time in the dead of winter in the Dakota territory, Theodore Roosevelt took off in a makeshift boat down the Little Missouri River in pursuit of a couple of thieves who had stolen his prized rowboat. After several days on the river, he caught up and got the draw on them with his trusty Winchester, at which point they surrendered. Then Roosevelt set off in a borrowed wagon to haul the thieves cross-country to justice. They headed across the snow-covered wastes of the Badlands to the railhead at Dickinson, and Roosevelt walked the whole way, the entire 40 miles. It was an astonishing feat, what might be called a defining moment in Roosevelt's eventful life. But what makes it especially memorable is that during that time, he managed to read all of Anna Karenina.I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read.
/David McCullough/

Leif Garrett: I've always...

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
/Leif Garrett/

December 30, 2011

Helen Keller: Security is...

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
/Helen Keller/

Eric Hoffer: When you...

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
/Eric Hoffer/

December 28, 2011

Joseph Addison: What sunshine...

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
/Joseph Addison/

December 27, 2011

December 26, 2011

Gaylord Nelson: Teddy Roosevelt...

Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.
/Gaylord Nelson/

December 24, 2011

Corin Nemec: I have...

I have not thought too much about the psychology or life of the character Jonas in some time.
/Corin Nemec/

December 23, 2011

Carol Kane: Work is...

Work is the most nourishing thing so far in my life.
/Carol Kane/

December 22, 2011

Marcus Aurelius: Mark how...

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
/Marcus Aurelius/

William Hazlitt: Good temper...

Good temper is an estate for life.
/William Hazlitt/

December 21, 2011

Henri-Frédéric Amiel: The best...

The best path through life is the highway.
/Henri-Frédéric Amiel/

December 19, 2011

Muriel Spark: When a...

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
/Muriel Spark/

December 18, 2011

Friedrich Schlegel: In actual...

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
/Friedrich Schlegel/

John Berger: A man's...

A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.
/John Berger/

December 17, 2011

Carl Friedrich Gauss: Life stands...

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
/Carl Friedrich Gauss/

December 16, 2011

Albert Einstein: Your imagination...

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
/Albert Einstein/

Bishop Butler: To us...

To us probability is the very guide of life.
/Bishop Butler/

December 14, 2011

Alan Dean Foster: Living gives...

Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
/Alan Dean Foster/

Adrian Edmondson: Even though...

Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.
/Adrian Edmondson/

December 13, 2011

Jean Anouilh: Oh, love...

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
/Jean Anouilh/

December 12, 2011

Ernest Holmes: Prepare your...

Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
/Ernest Holmes/

December 11, 2011

Lech Walesa: What until...

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.
/Lech Walesa/

December 10, 2011

Mark Helprin: The universe...

The universe is still and complete. Everything that ever was, is; everything that ever will be, is - and so on, in all possible combinations. Though in perceiving it we imagine that it is in motion, and unfinished, it is quite finished and quite astonishingly beautiful. In the end, or rather, as things really are, any event, no matter how small, is intimately and sensibly tied to all others. All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come back to life; the perfectly blue days that have begun and ended in golden dimness continue immobile and accessible; and, when all is perceived in such a way as to obviate time, justice becomes apparent not as something that will be, but as something that is.
/Mark Helprin/

Ali MacGraw: I fully...

I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life.
/Ali MacGraw/

Greg Lake: I feel...

I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.
/Greg Lake/

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Those who...

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
/Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe/

December 09, 2011

Eileen Caddy: Cease trying...

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
/Eileen Caddy/

December 05, 2011

Jack Youngblood: You learnt...

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
/Jack Youngblood/

December 04, 2011

John Ruskin: The best...

The best thing in life aren't things.
/John Ruskin/

Berthold Auerbach: Music washes...

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
/Berthold Auerbach/

December 02, 2011

T. S. Eliot: Where is...

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
/T. S. Eliot/

December 01, 2011

Haim Ginott: I have...

I have come to a frightening conclusion. I am the decisive element in the classroom.It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized orde-humanized.
/Haim Ginott/

November 30, 2011

Woodrow Wilson: The flag...

The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.
/Woodrow Wilson/

November 28, 2011

Stephen Jay Gould: Few tragedies...

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
/Stephen Jay Gould/

November 25, 2011

Matt Damon: If anybody...

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.
/Matt Damon/

November 24, 2011

Jessi Lane Adams: Walking through...

Walking through puddles is my favorite metaphor for life.
/Jessi Lane Adams/

John Walters: Life is...

Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest.
/John Walters/

November 23, 2011

William Osler: There is...

There is a form that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter-loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and is totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the artless heart of child or man, without egoism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
/William Osler/

Abraham Cahan: The orthodox...

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
/Abraham Cahan/

November 22, 2011

Oscar Wilde: Fathers should...

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
/Oscar Wilde/

Harriet Ann Jacobs: Every where...

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.
/Harriet Ann Jacobs/

November 20, 2011

Harriet Beecher Stowe: To be...

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
/Harriet Beecher Stowe/

Jim Walsh: With this...

With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench.
/Jim Walsh/

George Carlin: The day...

The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.
/George Carlin/

November 18, 2011

Giacomo Leopardi: No human...

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.
/Giacomo Leopardi/

November 16, 2011

Thomas Henry Huxley: My pet...

My pet aphorism suffer fools gladly should be the guide of the Assistant Secretary, who, during the fortnight of his activity, has more little vanities and rivalries to smooth over and conciliate than other people meet with in a lifetime. Now you do not suffer fools gladly; on the contrary, you gladly make fools suffer. I do not say you are wrong; No tu quoque'; but that is where the danger of the explosion lies'; not in regard to the larger business of the Association.
/Thomas Henry Huxley/

November 15, 2011

Tom Schulman: We don't...

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
/Tom Schulman/

November 14, 2011

Havelock Ellis: However well...

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
/Havelock Ellis/

Oliver Wendell Holmes: Life is...

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
/Oliver Wendell Holmes/

Khalil Gibran: Life without...

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
/Khalil Gibran/

November 12, 2011

Maude Adams: Life is...

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
/Maude Adams/

Paul Tournier: Recounting of...

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
/Paul Tournier/

November 09, 2011

Immanuel Kant: Science is...

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
/Immanuel Kant/

Horatio Nelson: I owe...

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
/Horatio Nelson/

November 07, 2011

Walter Raleigh: Remember, that...

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
/Walter Raleigh/

November 05, 2011

Akhmad Kadyrov: In 2001-2002,...

In 2001-2002, I told the president that the election was supposed to take place when the war was over, at a time when we could return to peaceful life. We agreed upon that. However, I can see now that the election cannot be delayed any longer.
/Akhmad Kadyrov/

November 04, 2011

Norman Mailer: Because there...

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.
/Norman Mailer/

November 01, 2011

Jean Toomer: Men try...

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
/Jean Toomer/

Samuel Johnson: Life is...

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
/Samuel Johnson/

October 31, 2011

Thomas Jefferson: The God...

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
/Thomas Jefferson/

October 29, 2011

Blythe Danner: Acting is...

Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.
/Blythe Danner/

Marguerite Yourcenar: A being...

A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.
/Marguerite Yourcenar/

October 27, 2011

Gustave Flaubert: Be regular...

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
/Gustave Flaubert/

Pierre Salinger: To outlive...

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.
/Pierre Salinger/

October 26, 2011

Frank Zappa: There is...

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
/Frank Zappa/

October 24, 2011

Arthur Ashe: You've got...

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
/Arthur Ashe/

Bernard Malamud: Life is...

Life is a tragedy full of joy.
/Bernard Malamud/

October 22, 2011

Oscar Wilde: A kiss...

A kiss may ruin a human life.
/Oscar Wilde/

Herman Wouk: Life was...

Life was a colorful painful pageant to her, in which right and wrong were wobbly yardsticks. Values and morals varied with time and place. Sweeping righteous views, like Victor Henry's Christian morality and Rule's militant socialism, tended to cause much hell and to cramp what little happiness there was to be had. So she thought.
/Herman Wouk/

October 21, 2011

Lewis Grizzard: Life is...

Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
/Lewis Grizzard/

October 19, 2011

Thich Nhat Hanh: Every day...

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.
/Thich Nhat Hanh/

October 18, 2011

Alfred Tennyson: The happiness...

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
/Alfred Tennyson/

Lord Chesterfield: Physical ills...

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.
/Lord Chesterfield/

October 17, 2011

Alexander Maclaren: Seek to...

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.
/Alexander Maclaren/

Barbara Walters: And I...

And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.
/Barbara Walters/

Jean Ingelow: It is...

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.
/Jean Ingelow/

Sarah Zettel: Becoming a...

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.
/Sarah Zettel/

October 14, 2011

Richard Bach: Every person,...

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
/Richard Bach/

October 13, 2011

Honore De Balzac: The habits...

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
/Honore De Balzac/

David Foster Wallace: Molly Notkin...

Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W. Pabst scholar at New York University tortured by the neurotic compulsion that there are only a finite number of erections possible in the world at any one time and that his tumescence means e.g. the detumescence of some perhaps more deserving or tortured Third World sorghum farmer. . .
/David Foster Wallace/

October 12, 2011

Albert Schweitzer: Just as...

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.
/Albert Schweitzer/

John Galsworthy: When Man...

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
/John Galsworthy/

Albert Greenfield: For me,...

For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.
/Albert Greenfield/

October 09, 2011

Aidan Quinn: Life is...

Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.
/Aidan Quinn/

October 08, 2011

Abu Bakr: Have an...

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
/Abu Bakr/

October 07, 2011

Markku Siivola: Astrology can...

Astrology can clear up or mix up a person as much as any other psychological, philosophical or religious mirror, a looking glass in the endless mirror hall of life.
/Markku Siivola/

Andre Maurois: The really...

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
/Andre Maurois/

October 06, 2011

Colin Powell: But you...

But you have to understand, American democracy is not like the system you have. We're not an ocean liner that sails across the ocean from point A to point B at 30 knots. That's not American democracy. American democracy is kind of like a life raft that bobs around the ocean all the time. Your feet are always wet. Winds are always blowing. You're cold. You're wet. You're uncomfortable - but you never sink.
/Colin Powell/

October 05, 2011

C. S. Lewis: Autumn is...

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last.
/C. S. Lewis/

Vash Young: There is...

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
/Vash Young/

Ray Stannard Baker: Friendship is...

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.
/Ray Stannard Baker/

October 04, 2011

Diane Ackerman: I don't...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
/Diane Ackerman/

Napoleon Bonaparte: As for...

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.
/Napoleon Bonaparte/

October 03, 2011

David Russell: The hardest...

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
/David Russell/

October 01, 2011

Plato: Music is...

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
/Plato/

September 28, 2011

Joseph Addison: In my...

In my Lucia's absence<BR>Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden;<BR>I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear,<BR>And grief, and rage and love rise up at once,<BR>And with variety of pain distract me.
/Joseph Addison/

September 26, 2011

Marcus Aurelius: Remember that...

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
/Marcus Aurelius/

September 25, 2011

Henry James: There are...

There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
/Henry James/

September 24, 2011

Swami Dhyan Giten: To see...

To see life from the perspective of intuition is to have vision. To see life from the perspective of intuition is to see life from the perspective of wholeness. It is to understand that life is basically one and that we are part of life. While the intellect can only see the details, intuition sees the whole. To see life from the perspective of intuition is like looking at life from the summit of the mountain, whereas seeing life only from the perspective of intellect is like looking at life from the foot of the mountain. Through learning to listen to our intuition, we learn to be in contact with the Whole.
/Swami Dhyan Giten/

Gerhard Kocher: Life is...

Life is a loss of time.
/Gerhard Kocher/

Margaret Sanger: War, famine,...

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.
/Margaret Sanger/

September 21, 2011

Phillip Moffitt: By embracing...

By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.
/Phillip Moffitt/

September 20, 2011

Jimmy Carter: I have...

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something ... I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands - this is not optional - my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
/Jimmy Carter/

September 19, 2011

Carol Burnett: Only I...

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
/Carol Burnett/

September 18, 2011

September 17, 2011

Oliver Wendell Holmes: From forty...

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
/Oliver Wendell Holmes/

September 16, 2011

Soren Kierkegaard: Life is...

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
/Soren Kierkegaard/

September 15, 2011

Constantine Karamanlis: You do...

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.
/Constantine Karamanlis/

September 13, 2011

Edith Wharton: There is...

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
/Edith Wharton/

George P. Baker: The drama...

The drama is a great revealer of life.
/George P. Baker/

September 12, 2011

Leverett Saltonstall: I personally...

I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.
/Leverett Saltonstall/

September 11, 2011

Hector Elizondo: I've dodged...

I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.
/Hector Elizondo/

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Those are...

Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other.
/Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe/

Donna Tartt: Character, to...

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.
/Donna Tartt/

September 09, 2011

Christian Bale: I've had...

I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.
/Christian Bale/

September 08, 2011

Rita Rudner: I love...

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
/Rita Rudner/

September 07, 2011

Alan Ladd: What good...

What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?
/Alan Ladd/

September 06, 2011

Marcus Aurelius: In the...

In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his senses a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, and his fame doubtful. In short, all that is of the body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapours; life a warfare, a brief sojourning in an alien land; and after repute, oblivion. Where, then, can man find the power to guide and guard his steps? In one thing and one alone: the love of knowledge.
/Marcus Aurelius/

September 03, 2011

Donna Tartt: But romantic...

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
/Donna Tartt/

September 01, 2011

Grandma Moses: Life is...

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
/Grandma Moses/

Richard Bach: Your only...

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
/Richard Bach/

August 31, 2011

A. Powell Davies: Religion is...

Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.
/A. Powell Davies/

Boris Pasternak: Surprise is...

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
/Boris Pasternak/

August 30, 2011

Andy Warhol: Before I...

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
/Andy Warhol/

Robert Louis Stevenson: In every...

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
/Robert Louis Stevenson/

August 29, 2011

Thomas Raineborough: The poorest...

The poorest He that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest He.
/Thomas Raineborough/

Wyclef Jean: I feel...

I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.
/Wyclef Jean/

August 28, 2011

Benjamin Franklin: A life...

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
/Benjamin Franklin/

August 27, 2011

Eugene Peterson: I often...

I often found myself prefering the company of people outside my congregation, men and women who did not follow Jesus. Or worse, preferring the company of my sovereign self. But soon I found that my preferences were honored by neither Scripture nor Jesus. I didn't come to the conviction easily, but finally there was no getting around it: there can be no maturity in the spiritual life, no obedience in following Jesus, no wholeness in the Christian life apart from immersion and embrace of community. I am not myself by myself. Community, not the highly vaunted individualism of our culture, is the setting in which Christ is at play.
/Eugene Peterson/

August 25, 2011

Gerhard Kocher: Life is...

Life is one of the most important causes of death.
/Gerhard Kocher/

August 24, 2011

Rebecca Sower: Scrapbooking isn't...

Scrapbooking isn't about scraps of paper and photos. Scrapbooking is about scraps of life - yours and those special to you.
/Rebecca Sower/

August 22, 2011

Judith Stern: Experience is...

Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.
/Judith Stern/

Ezra Pound: All my...

All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing; yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
/Ezra Pound/

August 19, 2011

Ronald Reagan: Of the...

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
/Ronald Reagan/

August 18, 2011

Shane Warne: My life...

My life was falling apart and then to come out and play and have my best ever - 40 wickets, 250 runs... But the only reason I could do that was because of the way I thought and I think I'm pretty strong mentally. I think I am anyway, pretty strong to get over whatever it is.
/Shane Warne/

August 17, 2011

Antisthenes: When brothers...

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
/Antisthenes/

August 16, 2011

Dean Kamen: I don't...

I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.
/Dean Kamen/

Edward Bulwer-Lytton: A life...

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
/Edward Bulwer-Lytton/

Alexander Herzen: Life has...

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
/Alexander Herzen/

August 13, 2011

Cornelius Nepos: So that...

So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another.
/Cornelius Nepos/

August 12, 2011

Barack Obama: Focusing your...

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
/Barack Obama/

August 10, 2011

Sally Rand: I'm not...

I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.
/Sally Rand/

August 09, 2011

Sarah Zettel: First and...

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.
/Sarah Zettel/

Sheena Easton: My mother...

My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.
/Sheena Easton/

Jim Morrison: Some of...

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
/Jim Morrison/

August 07, 2011

Erykah Badu: What does...

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.
/Erykah Badu/

Damon Runyon: I came...

I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.
/Damon Runyon/

Charles Eastman: Every act...

Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.
/Charles Eastman/

Amy Bloom: Love at...

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
/Amy Bloom/

August 06, 2011

H. E. E. Hayes: The general...

The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be defeat, is one who will inspire them to fight against apparently impossible odds. They will, indeed, never suffer defeat, but will fight on until annihilated by capture or death. The secret of success even in the more pacific engagements of life lies in this principle-to be undaunted in ardour, in spite of failure; to recognise in failure a step towards ultimate success. Let a man be possessed with these, and victory is within his grasp, whether he recognises it or not.
/H. E. E. Hayes/

Rene Descartes: If you...

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
/Rene Descartes/

August 04, 2011

Zinedine Zidane: I may...

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
/Zinedine Zidane/

Isaac Asimov: I don't...

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
/Isaac Asimov/

August 03, 2011

Thich Nhat Hanh: Life can...

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
/Thich Nhat Hanh/

August 02, 2011

Jesse Ventura: I also...

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.
/Jesse Ventura/

July 30, 2011

Neale Donald Walsch: As told...

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.
/Neale Donald Walsch/

Sean O'Casey: Wealth often...

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
/Sean O'Casey/

Jesse Ventura: The Constitution...

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
/Jesse Ventura/

July 29, 2011

Isabelle Eberhardt: A nomad...

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.
/Isabelle Eberhardt/

Samuel Johnson: Life cannot...

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
/Samuel Johnson/

Roger von Oech: Either you...

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.
/Roger von Oech/

Bo Jackson: My workout...

My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
/Bo Jackson/

July 28, 2011

Robert Walpole: IT has...

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.
/Robert Walpole/

July 26, 2011

Heywood Hale Broun: The tragedy...

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
/Heywood Hale Broun/

July 25, 2011

Mary Catherine Bateson: Wherever a...

Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one pattern to another: a potential translation in which narrative becomes parable and the once upon a time comes to stand for some renascent truth. This approach applies to all the incidents of everyday life: the phrase in the newspaper, the endearing or infuriating game of a toddler, the misunderstanding at the office. Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
/Mary Catherine Bateson/

July 24, 2011

Wallace Stevens: I can't...

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure.
/Wallace Stevens/

July 21, 2011

John Mortimer: I refuse...

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
/John Mortimer/

July 20, 2011

Oswald Chambers: We are...

We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.
/Oswald Chambers/

July 19, 2011

George Santayana: Happiness is...

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
/George Santayana/

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Men and...

Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect...Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.
/Jean-Jacques Rousseau/

Oscar Wilde: To love...

To love yourself is the beginning of a lifelong affair!
/Oscar Wilde/

Erik H. Erikson: Hope is...

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
/Erik H. Erikson/

July 18, 2011

Alexandre Dumas: There is...

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
/Alexandre Dumas/

Thom Yorke: Well, my...

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.
/Thom Yorke/

July 16, 2011

Chuck Zito: I've been...

I've been fighting my whole life.
/Chuck Zito/

George Eliot: Mortals are...

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
/George Eliot/

July 15, 2011

William Ralph Inge: Don't get...

Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
/William Ralph Inge/

July 14, 2011

Euripides: There is...

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience.
/Euripides/

July 11, 2011

George Whitefield: Take care...

Take care of your of your life and the Lord will take of your death.
/George Whitefield/

Ernest A. Fitzgerald: It is...

It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.
/Ernest A. Fitzgerald/

July 10, 2011

Julie Walters: I'd like...

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.
/Julie Walters/

July 07, 2011

Hugh Mackay: But the...

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.
/Hugh Mackay/

July 06, 2011

Chuck Palahniuk: Your birth...

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
/Chuck Palahniuk/

July 05, 2011

Zig Ziglar: Little men...

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
/Zig Ziglar/

Lou Holtz: If you're...

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
/Lou Holtz/

July 04, 2011

Edward Dahlberg: Always like...

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.
/Edward Dahlberg/

July 02, 2011

Henry David Thoreau: Our truest...

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
/Henry David Thoreau/

July 01, 2011

June 30, 2011

Alice James: The success...

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
/Alice James/

June 27, 2011

Otto Weininger: Among the...

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
/Otto Weininger/

June 25, 2011

Lewis Carroll: I'd give...

I'd give all wealth that years have piled,<BR>The slow result of Life's decay,<BR>To be once more a little child<BR>For one bright summer day.
/Lewis Carroll/

Neil Gaiman: Life is...

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.
/Neil Gaiman/

June 21, 2011

Kim Elizabeth: I appreciate...

I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored.
/Kim Elizabeth/

Don Miguel Ruiz: Your best...

Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value to judging yourself for "failing" - and no truth to it either. There should be no regrets. When you are not impeccable, when you take something personally, or make an assumption, you are still doing your best, and you are still a beloved child of Spirit. Agree to always do your best, with love and acceptance for the imperfect divine human that you are. The other key to doing your best revolves about being in action. Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life.
/Don Miguel Ruiz/

June 20, 2011

Spencer Abraham: The issues...

The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They've changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory.
/Spencer Abraham/

Lynn Davies: You've got...

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.
/Lynn Davies/

June 19, 2011

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Christianity is...

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
/Samuel Taylor Coleridge/

June 18, 2011

Eric Hoffer: The feeling...

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else- we are the busiest people in the world.
/Eric Hoffer/

June 17, 2011

Ray Davies: Those three...

Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done.
/Ray Davies/

June 16, 2011

Dorothea Lange: Photography takes...

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
/Dorothea Lange/

William O. Douglas: The great...

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution of way of life, or say and so things that make people think.
/William O. Douglas/

June 13, 2011

Augustinas Rakauskas: As the...

As the rain falling out of the clouds becomes the life origin for plants, so the stream of creativeness becomes the source of life for a man. Let us feel the pulse of a creative spirit within a man, which sustains his or her vitality, for it, is the only way for one to join the river of eternity. As this truth submerges a man in joy like the sunrays, he or she feels incredibly happy. The spirit of creativity like a stream flowing in a man and watering a dry land of his or her soul, refreshing it and awakening up new forces – a creation of action. It seems that time and eternity merge within a man. Let us aim at awakening within ourselves this state producing success and desire for harmony.
/Augustinas Rakauskas/

Roger Mahony: I'm very...

I'm very close to the pro-life movement.
/Roger Mahony/

June 11, 2011

Thomas La Mance: Life is...

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
/Thomas La Mance/

June 10, 2011

Isadora James: A sister...

A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.
/Isadora James/

June 09, 2011

Stewart Udall: Over the...

Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
/Stewart Udall/

June 08, 2011

Victor Frankl: A man...

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the why for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any how.
/Victor Frankl/

June 07, 2011

Gilda Radner: While we...

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
/Gilda Radner/

June 05, 2011

Paul Tournier: That is...

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
/Paul Tournier/

Daniel J. Boorstin: In our...

In our world of big names, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knowness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.
/Daniel J. Boorstin/

Irisa Hail: Don't let...

Don't let the alarm clock of life wake you from the dream of your ideals.
/Irisa Hail/

Arthur E. Waite: Behind the...

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
/Arthur E. Waite/

June 04, 2011

Oscar Wilde: Life imitates...

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
/Oscar Wilde/

June 02, 2011

Alan Ladd: I learned...

I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then.
/Alan Ladd/

June 01, 2011

Georgia O'Keeffe: It was...

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
/Georgia O'Keeffe/

Ray Davies: If I...

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.
/Ray Davies/

May 31, 2011

Tahar Ben Jelloun: For me,...

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
/Tahar Ben Jelloun/

May 30, 2011

Neale Donald Walsch: The new...

The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.
/Neale Donald Walsch/

Alicia Britt Chole: Truth to...

Truth to me was dead, God had never lived, life was full of pain, and death was the end of life. As a young Atheist, I sincerely believed that man had created God to fill the gaps in knowledge that would never be spanned by experience, reason, or science. In 1983 the God who pursues those who deny him interrupted my existence, he captured my soul with raw love. Two decades later, God's tangible friendship still amazes me. To deny his existence I'd have to first deny my own.
/Alicia Britt Chole/

May 29, 2011

Richard Bach: How do...

How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you're still alive, it isn't.
/Richard Bach/

May 28, 2011

Bryan Adams: Trying to...

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.
/Bryan Adams/

May 26, 2011

Elias Canetti: One should...

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
/Elias Canetti/

May 25, 2011

Tina Yothers: I had...

I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.
/Tina Yothers/

May 24, 2011

LaToya Jackson: This is...

This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.
/LaToya Jackson/

Lillie Langtry: I've put...

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.
/Lillie Langtry/

May 23, 2011

Albert Einstein: How strange...

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
/Albert Einstein/

William Makepeace Thackeray: Let a...

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
/William Makepeace Thackeray/

May 20, 2011

Gilbert Parker: But paying...

But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.
/Gilbert Parker/

Karl Jaspers: The study...

The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.
/Karl Jaspers/

William Wordsworth: The best...

The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
/William Wordsworth/

May 19, 2011

George Gordon Byron: It is...

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
/George Gordon Byron/

Friedrich Nietzsche: If we...

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
/Friedrich Nietzsche/

May 18, 2011

Martin H. Fischer: Life is...

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
/Martin H. Fischer/

May 17, 2011

Franz Kafka: Life's splendor...

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.
/Franz Kafka/

May 14, 2011

John W. Gardner: I've watched...

I've watched a lot of mid-career people, and Yogi Berra says you can observe a lot just by watching. I've concluded that most people enjoy learning and growing. And many are dearly troubled by the self-assessments of mid-career. Such self-assessments are no great problem at your age. You're young and moving up. The drama of your own rise is enough. But when you reach middle age, when your energies aren't what they used to be, then you'll begin to wonder what it all added up to; you'll begin to look for the figure in the carpet of your life. I have some simple advice for you when you begin that process. Don't be too hard on yourself. Look ahead. Someone said that Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. And above all don't imagine that the story is over. Life has a lot of chapters.
/John W. Gardner/

May 13, 2011

Fritz Perls: To mature...

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
/Fritz Perls/

May 11, 2011

John Patrick: Pain makes...

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
/John Patrick/

Hubert Humphrey: ...the moral...

...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
/Hubert Humphrey/

May 09, 2011

Mandy Patinkin: We did...

We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.
/Mandy Patinkin/

May 08, 2011

Sidney Jourard: We begin...

We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Someone - our parents, teachers, analysts - hypnotizes us to see the world and construe it in the right way. These others label the world, attach names and give voices to the beings and events in it, so that thereafter, we cannot read the world in any other language or hear it saying other things to us. The task is to break the hypnotic spell, so that we become undeaf, unblind and multilingual, thereby letting the world speak to us in new voices and write all its possible meanings in the new book of our existence. Be careful in your choice of hypnotists.
/Sidney Jourard/

Bertrand Russell: What else...

What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a voice of one drowning, and in a moment the silence returns. The world seems to me quite dreadful, the unhappiness of many people is very great, and I often wonder how they all endure it. It is usually the central thing around which their lives are built, and I suppose if they did not live most of their lives in the things of the moment, they would not be able to go on.
/Bertrand Russell/

May 07, 2011

Don Quixote: Sanity may...

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
/Don Quixote/

May 05, 2011

Kazuo Ishiguro: When I...

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.
/Kazuo Ishiguro/

May 04, 2011

Paracelsus: So long...

So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.
/Paracelsus/

May 03, 2011

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Courtesy Life...

Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

May 01, 2011

Benjamin Disraeli: Read no...

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
/Benjamin Disraeli/

April 30, 2011

Ralph Waldo Emerson: There are...

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

Lee R. Raymond: In every...

In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.
/Lee R. Raymond/

Tecumseh: When you...

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
/Tecumseh/

April 29, 2011

Eric Hoffer: Perhaps a...

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
/Eric Hoffer/

Yamamoto Tsunetomo: I have...

I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.
/Yamamoto Tsunetomo/

April 28, 2011

E. V. Lucas: The truth...

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.
/E. V. Lucas/

April 27, 2011

Rudyard Kipling: I never...

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
/Rudyard Kipling/

April 26, 2011

Aaron Burr: The rule...

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
/Aaron Burr/

April 25, 2011

Simone de Beauvoir: On the...

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself - on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life...
/Simone de Beauvoir/

April 24, 2011

Ishmael Reed: Ethnic life...

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
/Ishmael Reed/

April 23, 2011

Raoul Vaneigem: Never before...

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
/Raoul Vaneigem/

April 22, 2011

Anthony Holden: Whether he...

Whether he likes it or not, a man's character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life.
/Anthony Holden/

April 21, 2011

Benjamin Disraeli: Grief is...

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
/Benjamin Disraeli/

April 17, 2011

Robertson Davies: A happy...

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
/Robertson Davies/

Raymond Charles Barker: The principle...

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
/Raymond Charles Barker/

April 16, 2011

Hank Nuwer: Few of...

Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.
/Hank Nuwer/

Kemal Ataturk: A nation...

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
/Kemal Ataturk/

April 15, 2011

Irving Berlin: Life is...

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.
/Irving Berlin/

Bill Vaughan: Economists report...

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.
/Bill Vaughan/

April 13, 2011

Andre Agassi: Yes, for...

Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks.
/Andre Agassi/

Tahar Ben Jelloun: I write...

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
/Tahar Ben Jelloun/

April 12, 2011

Marcus Aurelius: And thou...

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
/Marcus Aurelius/

Johann Gottlieb Fichte: God is...

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
/Johann Gottlieb Fichte/

Gerard De Nerval: Our dreams...

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
/Gerard De Nerval/

April 11, 2011

Jessi Lane Adams: The philosophy...

The philosophy of mine earth can be summed up as this: Sunshine creates happiness, and I create myself. Nights are long and life is predominantly good. Wind is refreshing. Tea is wisdom. Do the best you can, and be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others.
/Jessi Lane Adams/

Alberto Salazar: We may...

We may train or peek for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.
/Alberto Salazar/

Barbara L. Diamond: Does the...

Does the father figure in your cat's life ever clean the litter box? My husband claims that men lack the scooping gene.
/Barbara L. Diamond/

April 08, 2011

Lalu Prasad Yadav: My mother...

My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.
/Lalu Prasad Yadav/

April 07, 2011

Joseph Campbell: One way...

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
/Joseph Campbell/

Madeleine L'Engle: In the...

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
/Madeleine L'Engle/

April 06, 2011

Anita Brookner: In real...

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
/Anita Brookner/

April 05, 2011

John Zorn: I put...

I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together.
/John Zorn/

George Bernard Shaw: I am...

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
/George Bernard Shaw/

April 04, 2011

Wilson Mizner: Life is...

Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.
/Wilson Mizner/

Maya Angelou: My life...

My life has been one great big joke,<BR>A dance that's walked,<BR>A song that's spoke,<BR>I laugh so hard I almost choke,<BR>When I think about myself.
/Maya Angelou/

April 03, 2011

Louise L. Hay: If we...

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
/Louise L. Hay/

Cicero: It is...

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.
/Cicero/

John Brewer: Our true...

Our true ancestry is the emergent creativity of the universe. Our forebears were the great inventors who 'learned' how to coalesce hydrogen and helium into stars, to form planets, to sustain life first from mineral nutrients in the sea and later to capture delicious photons, to exploit oxygen for energy rather than be exterminated by it, to diversify via sexual reproduction, to form social groups for greater security and protection of offspring. We are the beneficiaries (and, admittedly, also the victims) of this narrative of emergence. Our 'companions' — abstract as this must sound to the uninitiated — are all of these progenitors. Indeed they are more than companions; they are family. From them we have inherited our corporeal shapes and movements, our body chemistry, and even some of our behavioral agendas.
/John Brewer/

April 02, 2011

Frederic Harrison: History is...

History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass.
/Frederic Harrison/

Friedrich Nietzsche: Most of...

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
/Friedrich Nietzsche/

April 01, 2011

Sachin Tendulkar: When there...

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.
/Sachin Tendulkar/

March 31, 2011

Jean-Paul Sartre: One always...

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than you life.
/Jean-Paul Sartre/

Nelson Henderson: The true...

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
/Nelson Henderson/

March 29, 2011

Nia Vardalos: You only...

You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.
/Nia Vardalos/

March 27, 2011

Neve Campbell: If you're...

If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything.
/Neve Campbell/

Edith Wharton: Life is...

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
/Edith Wharton/

March 24, 2011

Henry James: Live all...

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
/Henry James/

March 23, 2011

Philip Larkin: In everyone...

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.
/Philip Larkin/

March 22, 2011

Mark Udall: Ranchers need...

Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners.
/Mark Udall/

March 20, 2011

Helen Garner: Writers seem...

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.
/Helen Garner/

Muhammed Iqbal: But the...

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.
/Muhammed Iqbal/

March 19, 2011

Miguel De Cervantes: She fights...

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
/Miguel De Cervantes/

March 17, 2011

Paul McCartney: Painting is...

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life.
/Paul McCartney/

March 16, 2011

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Manners are...

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

George Cadbury: But if...

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
/George Cadbury/

March 15, 2011

Molly Parker: In general,...

In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.
/Molly Parker/

Steven Tyler: Every life...

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
/Steven Tyler/

March 14, 2011

Raoul Vaneigem: Daily life...

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
/Raoul Vaneigem/

March 13, 2011

Randall Jarrell: A poet...

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
/Randall Jarrell/

Francis Picabia: Wherever art...

Wherever art appears, life disappears.
/Francis Picabia/

March 11, 2011

Bill Cosby: I recently...

I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler whose son now says, "Dad, I just can't run with you anymore unless I bring something to read."
/Bill Cosby/

Evelyn Underhill: We have...

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.
/Evelyn Underhill/

March 09, 2011

Anna Quindlen: If I...

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
/Anna Quindlen/

H. L. Mencken: Life is...

Life is a dead-end street.
/H. L. Mencken/

Virginia Woolf: So the...

So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.
/Virginia Woolf/

March 06, 2011

Greta Garbo: This is...

This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.
/Greta Garbo/

Epictetus: A ship...

A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
/Epictetus/

March 05, 2011

Oprah Winfrey: Getting my...

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
/Oprah Winfrey/

March 04, 2011

Jennifer Jones: If you...

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
/Jennifer Jones/

Lynn Davies: Sport and...

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.
/Lynn Davies/

March 03, 2011

Alfred North Whitehead: The deepest...

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
/Alfred North Whitehead/

March 02, 2011

W. Somerset Maugham: D'you call...

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
/W. Somerset Maugham/

Og Mandino: Every memorable...

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation a new meaning, no matter how frightening or difficult. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.
/Og Mandino/

March 01, 2011

George Saintsbury: The transition...

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.
/George Saintsbury/

Martin Luther: Who loves...

Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
/Martin Luther/

February 28, 2011

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Quite often,...

Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action. Now because action is always a decisive factor, something really good can result from an active error, because the effect of all that has been done reaches out into infinity. So although creative action is certainly always best, destroying what has been done is also not without happy consequence.
/Johann Wolfgang von Goethe/

Neil Simon: If you...

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.
/Neil Simon/

February 26, 2011

Alexander A. Bogomoletz: One must...

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
/Alexander A. Bogomoletz/

February 24, 2011

Don Herold: It is...

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
/Don Herold/

February 22, 2011

Loretta Young: As an...

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
/Loretta Young/

Jane Wagner: I bet...

I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.
/Jane Wagner/

February 21, 2011

Osho: The real...

The real thing is not the goal, the real thing is the beauty of the movement. The real thing is not reaching, the real thing is the journey. Remember, the real thing is the journey, the very traveling. It is so beautiful, why bother about the goal? And if you are too bothered about the goal, you will miss the journey, and the journey is life - the goal can only be death.
/Osho/

February 20, 2011

Dorothy Parker: Oh, life...

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,<br> A medley of extemporanea; <br>And love is a thing that can never go wrong; <br>And I am Marie of Romania.
/Dorothy Parker/

February 16, 2011

W. M. Lewis: The tragedy...

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
/W. M. Lewis/

February 14, 2011

Conrad Hall: There are...

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.
/Conrad Hall/

February 09, 2011

Morton Feldman: I've been...

I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.
/Morton Feldman/

February 07, 2011

David Elliott: We are...

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
/David Elliott/

February 02, 2011

Maxim Gorky: When work...

When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
/Maxim Gorky/

Sarah Bernhardt: I have,...

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
/Sarah Bernhardt/

January 28, 2011

Enrique Iglesias: I was...

I was happier before, when I lead a normal life.
/Enrique Iglesias/

January 27, 2011

Frances Cornford: Magnificently unprepared...

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.
/Frances Cornford/

January 26, 2011

James Dobson: What is...

What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy, and that's just about the same thing.
/James Dobson/

January 24, 2011

Tony Garza: Look at...

Look at Mexico. We need to make that government better and end the corruption. If people have a better life in their country, they won't come over here.
/Tony Garza/

January 23, 2011

Corita Kent: Love the...

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
/Corita Kent/

January 17, 2011

Shirley Jackson: Life Among...

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
/Shirley Jackson/

T. S. Eliot: I have...

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
/T. S. Eliot/

January 16, 2011

Benjamin Franklin: Dost thou...

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
/Benjamin Franklin/

January 15, 2011

Sigmund Freud: If a...

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
/Sigmund Freud/

January 14, 2011

Joy Page: You are...

You are the God-being that is here to create life, to breathe soul into your body, to walk this world as your own source of power, love, worth and life.
/Joy Page/

John Updike: Religion enables...

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
/John Updike/

January 13, 2011

William O. Douglas: Religious experiences...

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
/William O. Douglas/

Will Rogers: Believe in...

Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start out that life with a disappontment. Live your life so that whenever you lose you are ahead.
/Will Rogers/

Owen Feltham: By gaming...

By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.
/Owen Feltham/

January 11, 2011

Joshua Loth Liebman: The primary...

The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple relatedness.
/Joshua Loth Liebman/

January 10, 2011

Lev Tolstoy: The subject...

The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.
/Lev Tolstoy/

Robert E. McAfee: Through television...

Through television and movies, our society is a virtual captive of an entire world of violence - once-removed from the streets, and channelled on TV directly into our homes. By age 18, a child today will have witnessed 40,000 killings and 200,000 acts of violence right in their own living rooms. And no one can tell me that doesn't devalue human life in the eyes of our children.
/Robert E. McAfee/

Anatole France: Night has...

Night has come! Leaning from the window, we gaze at the vast sombre stretch of the city below us, pierced with multitudinous points of light. Jeanne presses her hand to her forehead as she leans upon the window-bar, and seems a little sad. And I say to myself as I watch her: All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves: we must die in one life before we can enter into another!<br>My guardian, I am so happy; and still I feel as if I wanted to cry!
/Anatole France/

January 09, 2011

Aaron Sorkin: More than...

More than any time in recent history, America's destiny is not of our own choosing. We did not seek nor did we provoke an assault on our freedom and our way of life. We did not expect nor did we invite a confrontation with evil. Yet the true measure of a people's strength is how they rise to master that moment when it does arive...The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels, but every time we think we have measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and we're reminded that that capacity may well be limitless. This is a time for American heroes. We will do what is hard. We will achieve what is great. This is a time for American heroes and we reach for the stars...
/Aaron Sorkin/

Anthony Robbins: Your life...

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.
/Anthony Robbins/

Ludwig Quidde: In life,...

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.
/Ludwig Quidde/

January 08, 2011

Walter Savage Landor: There is...

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
/Walter Savage Landor/

Michael Irvin: You made...

You made it something special. Most of all, I want to thank the fans for your support not through the great times that we shared on the football field, but for the last 17 years of my life. You have supported me through all times.
/Michael Irvin/

January 07, 2011

Ian Jackson: What we...

What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
/Ian Jackson/

Angelo Patri: Queer little...

Queer little twists go into the making of an individual. To supress them all and follow clock and calendar and creed until the individual is lost in the neutral grey of the host is to be less than true to our inheritance... Life, that gorgeous quality of life, is not accomplished by following another man's rules. It is true we have the same hungers and same thirsts, but they are for different things and in different ways and in different seasons... Lay down your own day, follow it to its noon, your own noon, or you will sit in an outer hall listening to the chimes but never reaching high enough to strike your own.
/Angelo Patri/

Bernard Baruch: Whatever failures...

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
/Bernard Baruch/

Giovanni Papini: Breathing is...

Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life.
/Giovanni Papini/

January 06, 2011

Scott Adams: You don't...

You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
/Scott Adams/

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: There's one...

There's one sad truth in life I've found<BR>While journeying east and west -<BR>The only folks we really wound<BR>Are those we love the best.<BR>We flatter those we scarcely know,<BR>We please the fleeting guest,<BR>And deal full many a thoughtless blow<BR>To those who love us best.
/Ella Wheeler Wilcox/

January 05, 2011

Duffy Daugherty: When your...

When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
/Duffy Daugherty/

William Henry Davies: A poor...

A poor life this if, full of care,<BR>We have no time to stand and stare.
/William Henry Davies/

Roger Caras: If you...

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.
/Roger Caras/

January 04, 2011

Irene C. Kassorla: You must...

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.
/Irene C. Kassorla/

Robert Brault: Dancing is...

Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.
/Robert Brault/

Charles Edward Montague: A gifted...

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, by not swallowing them.
/Charles Edward Montague/

January 03, 2011

Robert Stuberg: The trouble...

The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside.
/Robert Stuberg/

Gus Van Sant: I'm a...

I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.
/Gus Van Sant/

Edith Sitwell: My poems...

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
/Edith Sitwell/

Cab Calloway: My audience...

My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
/Cab Calloway/

January 02, 2011

Aristophanes: Wise people,...

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
/Aristophanes/

George Wald: Our business...

Our business is with life, not death.
/George Wald/

Brion James: You never...

You never know what show is going to change your life.
/Brion James/