March 30, 2012

Theodore Roosevelt: We of...

We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life.
/Theodore Roosevelt/

March 28, 2012

George Earle Buckle: In practical...

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.
/George Earle Buckle/

March 27, 2012

Eugene O'Neill: I lay...

I lay on the bowsprit, with the water foaming into spume under me, the masts with every sail white in the moonlight towering above me. I became drunk with the beauty and singing rhythm of it, and for a moment lost myself- actually lost my life. I was set free... dissolved in the sea, became white sails and flying spray, became beauty and rhythm and the high dim-starred sky... I belonged within a unity and joy to life itself.
/Eugene O'Neill/

Alicia Machado: Every day...

Every day I am trying to improve my life.
/Alicia Machado/

March 26, 2012

Kiri Te Kanawa: We sing...

We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people.
/Kiri Te Kanawa/

March 24, 2012

Anatole France: The average...

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
/Anatole France/

March 23, 2012

Dante G. Roque: Life is...

Life is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges.
/Dante G. Roque/

March 22, 2012

Terri Minsky: It's very...

It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.
/Terri Minsky/

Frédéric Bastiat: Life, faculties,...

Life, faculties, production- in other words, individuality, liberty, property- this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
/Frédéric Bastiat/

C. S. Lewis: He who...

He who takes his life for granted is a pencil without an eraser.
/C. S. Lewis/

Jean Paul: Art is...

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
/Jean Paul/

Muhammed Iqbal: The ultimate...

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
/Muhammed Iqbal/

March 21, 2012

Benjamin Franklin: It is...

It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?
/Benjamin Franklin/

March 20, 2012

Ella Maillart: We must...

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.
/Ella Maillart/

Mary Oliver: Listen, are...

Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?
/Mary Oliver/

March 19, 2012

Nancy Thayer: It's never...

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
/Nancy Thayer/

March 17, 2012

Heraclitus: Life has...

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
/Heraclitus/

March 16, 2012

March 13, 2012

Samuel Butler: Life is...

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
/Samuel Butler/

March 12, 2012

Harriet Ann Jacobs: But I...

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
/Harriet Ann Jacobs/

March 11, 2012

Mary Oliver: To live...

To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
/Mary Oliver/

Bernard Malamud: We have...

We have two lives - the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
/Bernard Malamud/

Zack Wamp: With freedom...

With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
/Zack Wamp/

March 09, 2012

Eric Hoffer: Passionate hatreds...

Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunies for battle.
/Eric Hoffer/

March 07, 2012

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Everything which...

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.
/Johann Wolfgang von Goethe/

March 06, 2012

Aldous Huxley: Human contacts...

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.
/Aldous Huxley/

John Eaton: We need...

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.
/John Eaton/

Henry David Thoreau: If one...

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
/Henry David Thoreau/

Edward Abbey: Our suicidal...

Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too muchof their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudgingup mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life isthe next best thing to premature burial.
/Edward Abbey/

March 05, 2012

Robert Brault: How often...

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.
/Robert Brault/

David R. Hawkins: All judgment...

All judgment reveals itself to be self-judgment in the end, and when this is understood a larger comprehension of the nature of life takes its place.
/David R. Hawkins/

Jorge Luis Borges: Life itself...

Life itself is a quotation.
/Jorge Luis Borges/

March 04, 2012

Giorgio de Chirico: Although the...

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life. Psychologically speaking, to discover something mysterious in objects is a symptom of cerebral abnormality related to certain kinds of insanity. I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers. Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
/Giorgio de Chirico/

March 03, 2012

George Gribbon: A writer...

A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
/George Gribbon/

Benjamin Mays: It must...

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. It lies in having no goal to reach. It is not a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace not to have any stars to reach. Not failure, but low aim, is the real sin.
/Benjamin Mays/

March 02, 2012

Mohamed ElBaradei: Challenging the...

Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security.
/Mohamed ElBaradei/