December 27, 2015

Derek Jacobi: He was...

He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.
/Derek Jacobi/

Phillip C. McGraw: Reality check:...

Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.
/Phillip C. McGraw/

December 26, 2015

Jules Renard: We spend...

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
/Jules Renard/

December 25, 2015

Robert Anthony: Waiting is...

Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait...The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply dont count.
/Robert Anthony/

December 22, 2015

David Hume: It is...

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
/David Hume/

December 20, 2015

Samuel Johnson: Friendship, 'the...

Friendship, 'the wine of life,' said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continually renewed. And Dr. Johnson added to this A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
/Samuel Johnson/

December 18, 2015

Dimebag Darrell: We still...

We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.
/Dimebag Darrell/

Ann Landers: If you...

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
/Ann Landers/

Derek Jacobi: Originally they...

Originally they wanted it to be bigger, but I pleaded and pleaded and pleaded to have the smallest tonsure that they could get away with. A tonsure that could still be seen, but, I worried about my social life!
/Derek Jacobi/

December 17, 2015

Graham Taylor: Very few...

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.
/Graham Taylor/

Thomas Alva Edison: Many of...

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
/Thomas Alva Edison/

December 15, 2015

Brett Favre: That's kind...

That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.
/Brett Favre/

December 13, 2015

W. H. Davies: A poor...

A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.
/W. H. Davies/

December 12, 2015

Archibald MacLeish: The business...

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
/Archibald MacLeish/

Robert Brault: People are...

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.
/Robert Brault/

Ray Stannard Baker: And no...

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.
/Ray Stannard Baker/

December 11, 2015

Aldous Huxley: The spiritual...

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one's own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one's self.
/Aldous Huxley/

December 09, 2015

December 06, 2015

Chu Hui Weng: To avoid...

To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less.
/Chu Hui Weng/

J. D. Salinger: He had...

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
/J. D. Salinger/

Seth MacFarlane: With any...

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
/Seth MacFarlane/

December 05, 2015

Kathleen Norris: Home ought...

Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life.
/Kathleen Norris/

Joseph Campbell: A hero...

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
/Joseph Campbell/

Ryunosuke Satoro: Find patience...

Find patience in the breath of life.
/Ryunosuke Satoro/

December 04, 2015

David Eddings: I've fallen...

I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.
/David Eddings/

December 03, 2015

Charles Eastman: In the...

In the life of the Indian there was only one inevitable duty, - the duty of prayer - the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal.
/Charles Eastman/

December 01, 2015

Troy Vincent: At the...

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.
/Troy Vincent/

November 30, 2015

William James: There is...

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
/William James/

Abigail Adams: I begin...

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
/Abigail Adams/

November 26, 2015

Michael C. Hall: My mother...

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.
/Michael C. Hall/

Jim Ramstad: My fellow...

My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.
/Jim Ramstad/

November 25, 2015

Henry David Thoreau: I have...

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
/Henry David Thoreau/

Mort Sahl: My life...

My life needs editing.
/Mort Sahl/

November 24, 2015

Barry Lopez: How is...

How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
/Barry Lopez/

November 23, 2015

Simone Weil: Life does...

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
/Simone Weil/

November 22, 2015

Ellen Glasgow: Nothing in...

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
/Ellen Glasgow/

Anais Nin: Life shrinks...

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
/Anais Nin/

November 21, 2015

Neve Campbell: There are...

There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance.
/Neve Campbell/

November 20, 2015

Cornelius Nepos: Hateful is...

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
/Cornelius Nepos/

Ahmad Jamal: The quickest...

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.
/Ahmad Jamal/

November 18, 2015

Hall Caine: Out of...

Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
/Hall Caine/

November 17, 2015

Robert James Waller: Remember the...

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.
/Robert James Waller/

Jay Leno: Give a...

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
/Jay Leno/

November 16, 2015

Ralph Waldo Emerson: My chief...

My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

November 15, 2015

Theodor W. Adorno: Wrong life...

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
/Theodor W. Adorno/

Clay Aiken: I decided...

I decided to study special education and fell in love with working with individuals with autism. That's what I planned to do with my life.
/Clay Aiken/

November 14, 2015

Martin Luther King: I refuse...

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
/Martin Luther King/

November 13, 2015

Marge Kennedy: The informality...

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.
/Marge Kennedy/

Henry Reed: As we...

As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know.
/Henry Reed/

Dwight L. Moody: Preparation for...

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
/Dwight L. Moody/

November 12, 2015

Henry David Thoreau: Don't be...

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
/Henry David Thoreau/

Ninette de Valois: Somebody must...

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.
/Ninette de Valois/

November 11, 2015

Langston Hughes: I have...

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
/Langston Hughes/

November 10, 2015

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: We run...

We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you.
/Elisabeth Kubler-Ross/

Robert Brault: In life's...

In life's poker game, the optimist sees the pessimist's night and raises him the sunrise.
/Robert Brault/

November 09, 2015

Thomas Alva Edison: I never...

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
/Thomas Alva Edison/

Robert Williamson III: Poker's a...

Poker's a day to learn and a lifetime to master.
/Robert Williamson III/

November 08, 2015

Albert Schweitzer: But the...

But the man who dares to live his life with death before his eyes, the man who receives life back bit by bit and lives as though it did not belong to him by right but has been bestowed on him as a gift, the man who has such freedom and peace of mind that he has overcome death in his thoughts--such a man believes in eternal life because it is already his, it is a present experience, and he already benefits from its peace and joy. He cannot describe this experience in words. He may not be able to conform his view with the traditional picture of it. But one thing he knows for certain: Something within us does not pass away, something goes on living and working wherever the kingdom of the spirit is present. It is already working and living within us, because in our hearts we have been able to reach life by overcoming death.
/Albert Schweitzer/

November 07, 2015

Astrid Alauda: I've spent...

I've spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart.
/Astrid Alauda/

Kendall Hailey: The great...

The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.
/Kendall Hailey/

November 06, 2015

Jean Paul: Gray hairs...

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
/Jean Paul/

November 05, 2015

Jim Valvano: How do...

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
/Jim Valvano/

November 04, 2015

Marcus Valerius Martial: Life is...

Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
/Marcus Valerius Martial/

November 03, 2015

Mary Garden: For a...

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
/Mary Garden/

November 01, 2015

Henri Matisse: It has...

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
/Henri Matisse/

October 30, 2015

Henry Ossawa Tanner: I believe...

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.
/Henry Ossawa Tanner/

October 29, 2015

William James: The great...

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
/William James/

October 28, 2015

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Five miles...

Five miles meandering with mazy motion,<br>Through dale the sacred river ran,<br>Then reached the caverns measureless to man,<br>And sank the tumult to a lifeless ocean:<br>And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far<br>Ancestral voices prophesying war!
/Samuel Taylor Coleridge/

October 25, 2015

Gaylord Nelson: We must...

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
/Gaylord Nelson/

Leif Garrett: Each song...

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.
/Leif Garrett/

October 23, 2015

Josephine Baker: The things...

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
/Josephine Baker/

Greer Garson: Starting out...

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.
/Greer Garson/

Jim Fiebig: If life...

If life were just, we would be born old and achieve youth about the time we'd saved enough to enjoy it.
/Jim Fiebig/

October 19, 2015

Eric Hoffer: Man staggers...

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
/Eric Hoffer/

October 16, 2015

Michael Leboeuf: Waste your...

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
/Michael Leboeuf/

October 14, 2015

Edward Zwick: I look...

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.
/Edward Zwick/

October 12, 2015

Henry Hampton: On the...

On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.
/Henry Hampton/

October 10, 2015

Gilda Radner: The goal...

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.
/Gilda Radner/

Victor Hugo: Have courage...

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
/Victor Hugo/

October 09, 2015

Arthur Schopenhauer: Nothing in...

Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.
/Arthur Schopenhauer/

Denise Levertov: Very few...

Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.
/Denise Levertov/

October 08, 2015

October 07, 2015

Immanuel Kant: May you...

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
/Immanuel Kant/

October 05, 2015

Learned Hand: Life is...

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
/Learned Hand/

John Burroughs: To find...

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
/John Burroughs/

October 04, 2015

Nicholas Lore: It takes...

It takes courage to be the author of your life. When you are struggling through one of the difficult parts of turning your dreams into reality, you may wonder why you always get stuck with having to put up with so much fear and uncertainty. Why, you wonder, couldn't I feel more courageous, like those other people do? You don't feel courageous because courage is not an emotion. There is no such thing as feeling courageous. It is an imaginary emotion. Courage consists of doing what you said you would do even when you don't want to. In the face of danger you have a choice to be the delegate of either your commitments or your feelings. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
/Nicholas Lore/

October 03, 2015

Andy Rooney: Happiness depends...

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
/Andy Rooney/

October 02, 2015

Maurice Jarre: Soon I...

Soon I worked during twelve years in theater works of the prestigious Theatre National Populaire. It was the best time of my life, the most difficult, the most interesting, the most exciting.
/Maurice Jarre/

William Feather: One way...

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
/William Feather/

September 29, 2015

Francis Quarles: He that...

He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
/Francis Quarles/

Jesse James: Just able...

Just able barely to mount a horse and ride about a little in the spring of 1866, my life was threatened daily, and I was forced to go heavily armed. The whole country was then full of militia, robbing, plundering and killing.
/Jesse James/

September 27, 2015

Theodore Roosevelt: The Roman...

The Roman Republic fell, not because of the ambition of Caesar or Augustus, but because it had already long ceased to be in any real sense a republic at all. When the sturdy Roman plebeian, who lived by his own labor, who voted without reward according to his own convictions, and who with his fellows formed in war the terrible Roman legion, had been changed into an idle creature who craved nothing in life save the gratification of a thirst for vapid excitement, who was fed by the state, and who directly or indirectly sold his vote to the highest bidder, then the end of the republic was at hand, and nothing could save it. The laws were the same as they had been, but the people behind the laws had changed, and so the laws counted for nothing.
/Theodore Roosevelt/

September 24, 2015

Arthur Keith: Tribal life...

Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.
/Arthur Keith/

Plato: Attention to...

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
/Plato/

Scipio Africanus: I am...

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.
/Scipio Africanus/

September 22, 2015

Anne Wilson Schaef: Life is...

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
/Anne Wilson Schaef/

Donald Fagen: I had...

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!
/Donald Fagen/

September 21, 2015

Robert Frost: Poetry is...

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
/Robert Frost/

September 20, 2015

Samuel Johnson: Life will...

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
/Samuel Johnson/

September 19, 2015

Henry James: Cats and...

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
/Henry James/

September 18, 2015

Lee J. Colan: Life's rewards...

Life's rewards go to those who let their actions rise above their excuses.
/Lee J. Colan/

September 16, 2015

Muhammad Iqbal: If faith...

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
/Muhammad Iqbal/

September 15, 2015

Truman Capote: My major...

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
/Truman Capote/

Joseph Addison: Three grand...

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
/Joseph Addison/

September 14, 2015

Al Pacino: The actor...

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
/Al Pacino/

September 13, 2015

Barry Switzer: Some people...

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
/Barry Switzer/

Karl Jaspers: The more...

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
/Karl Jaspers/

September 11, 2015

Mandy Rice-Davies: My life...

My life has been one long descent into respectability.
/Mandy Rice-Davies/

Bill Clinton: Advances in...

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life.
/Bill Clinton/

September 08, 2015

Richard Bach: To bring...

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
/Richard Bach/

September 06, 2015

Friedrich Nietzsche: Very early...

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief – that it is not possible to live with truth, that the "will to truth" is already a symptom of degeneration.
/Friedrich Nietzsche/

September 05, 2015

Woody Allen: Seventy percent...

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
/Woody Allen/

September 04, 2015

Edwin Markham: The thing...

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
/Edwin Markham/

Ella Maillart: I gained...

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
/Ella Maillart/

September 03, 2015

Patrick MacGill: I am...

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.
/Patrick MacGill/

September 02, 2015

Charles Kingsley: We act...

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
/Charles Kingsley/

Michel de Montaigne: Whether you...

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
/Michel de Montaigne/

Henry Alford: Life is...

Life is so short, so fast the lone hours fly,<BR>We ought to be together, you and I.
/Henry Alford/

September 01, 2015

John Mortimer: When you...

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
/John Mortimer/

William Shakespeare: Life is...

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale <br>Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
/William Shakespeare/

August 31, 2015

Emile Zola: If you...

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
/Emile Zola/

August 26, 2015

Jay Chiat: I'm uncomfortable...

I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my personal life-every two years or so. Taking risks gives me energy. I can't help it, it's my personality. I'd like to think it's not really a compulsion toward high risks, but the spirit of an entrepreneur.
/Jay Chiat/

Frances Willard: Tens of...

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.
/Frances Willard/

August 23, 2015

August 22, 2015

Charles Feidelson: Life is...

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
/Charles Feidelson/

August 21, 2015

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: The purpose...

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.
/Maharishi Mahesh Yogi/

Judith Malina: Tremble: your...

Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.
/Judith Malina/

August 17, 2015

C. G. Jung: The great...

The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him--an irrational form which no other can outbid.
/C. G. Jung/

August 16, 2015

Tom Robbins: In the...

In the staircase of life, Art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
/Tom Robbins/

August 15, 2015

Hugh Mackay: Indeed, in...

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance.
/Hugh Mackay/

August 14, 2015

Jean de La Bruyère: Grief at...

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
/Jean de La Bruyère/

Blair Underwood: When I...

When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.
/Blair Underwood/

August 13, 2015

Arthur Rimbaud: What a...

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
/Arthur Rimbaud/

August 12, 2015

Anna Garlin Spencer: The friendship...

The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.
/Anna Garlin Spencer/

Dakota Fanning: That was...

That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.
/Dakota Fanning/

August 10, 2015

John Redwood: At the...

At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and interference under Mr Blair.
/John Redwood/

August 09, 2015

Reinhold Niebuhr: The finiteness,...

The finiteness, the dependency, and the insufficiency of man's mortal life are facts which belong to God's plan of creation and must be accepted with reverence and humility.
/Reinhold Niebuhr/

Katharine Hepburn: Without discipline,...

Without discipline, there is no life at all.
/Katharine Hepburn/

August 08, 2015

Pythagoras: In this...

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
/Pythagoras/

August 06, 2015

Joseph Joubert: Without duty,...

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
/Joseph Joubert/

August 05, 2015

Christian Lous Lange: Internationalism on...

Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.
/Christian Lous Lange/

August 04, 2015

Erich Fromm: Man's main...

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
/Erich Fromm/

Horace: Life grants...

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
/Horace/

Emily Dickinson: Surgeons must...

Surgeons must be very careful<BR>When they take the knife!<BR>Underneath their fine incisions<BR>Stirs the Culprit - Life!
/Emily Dickinson/

August 03, 2015

Oprah Winfrey: It is...

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.
/Oprah Winfrey/

Rose Wilder Lane: The real...

The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.
/Rose Wilder Lane/

August 01, 2015

Bill Vaughan: Maybe the...

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
/Bill Vaughan/

Walter Kaufmann: Here an...

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
/Walter Kaufmann/

July 28, 2015

Henry L. Doherty: Get over...

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
/Henry L. Doherty/

July 27, 2015

Anna Quindlen: I read...

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
/Anna Quindlen/

July 24, 2015

Victor Hugo: The supreme...

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
/Victor Hugo/

July 21, 2015

William S. Burroughs: Kerouac and...

Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another.'
/William S. Burroughs/

James A. Garfield: Territory is...

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
/James A. Garfield/

July 20, 2015

Bob Lemon: I've come...

I've come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen.
/Bob Lemon/

Alan Cohen: It takes...

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
/Alan Cohen/

Marcus Aurelius: The object...

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
/Marcus Aurelius/

July 19, 2015

Frank Lloyd Wright: The longer...

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
/Frank Lloyd Wright/

Michel de Montaigne: All the...

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
/Michel de Montaigne/

July 18, 2015

Arthur Rimbaud: Idle youth,...

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
/Arthur Rimbaud/

Arthur Schopenhauer: If people...

If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.
/Arthur Schopenhauer/

July 17, 2015

Louis Armstrong: What we...

What we play is life.
/Louis Armstrong/

Dag Hammarskjöld: Life yields...

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
/Dag Hammarskjöld/

July 15, 2015

Bill Watterson: A box...

A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
/Bill Watterson/

July 13, 2015

July 10, 2015

Kurt Vonnegut: Life happens...

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
/Kurt Vonnegut/

July 08, 2015

Mary McCarthy: ...friendship...is essential...

...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.
/Mary McCarthy/

July 07, 2015

Honore de Balzac: The man...

The man who can but sketch his purpose beforehand in words is regarded as a wonder, and every artist and writer possesses that faculty. But gestation, fruition, the laborious rearing of the offspring, putting it to bed every night full fed with milk, embracing it anew every morning with the inexhaustible affection of a mother's heart, licking it clean, dressing it a hundred times in the richest garb only to be instantly destroyed; then never to be cast down at the convulsions of this headlong life till the living masterpiece is perfected which in sculpture speaks to every eye, in literature to every intellect, in painting to every memory, in music to every heart! --this is the task of execution. The hand must be ready at every moment to work in obedience to the mind.
/Honore de Balzac/

July 06, 2015

Joshua Wolf Shenk: A glimpse...

A glimpse of any one moment in a life can be deeply misleading. A man at 20 who appears the model of altruism may turn out to be a kind of emotional prodigy-or he may be ducking the kind of engagement with reality that his peers are both moving toward and defending against. And, on the other extreme, a man at 20 who appears impossibly wounded may turn out to be gestating toward maturity.
/Joshua Wolf Shenk/

July 05, 2015

Joseph Campbell: Your life...

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
/Joseph Campbell/

July 04, 2015

Charlie Chaplin: Life is...

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
/Charlie Chaplin/

Philip Adams: It seems...

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
/Philip Adams/

July 03, 2015

Andy Garcia: Everything I...

Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.
/Andy Garcia/

Dante Alighieri: In the...

In the middle of the journey of our life<br>where the straight road had been lost sight of.
/Dante Alighieri/

July 02, 2015

Henri Lefebvre: In this...

In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.
/Henri Lefebvre/

Boris Yeltsin: There are...

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
/Boris Yeltsin/

July 01, 2015

Winston Churchill: The greatest...

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
/Winston Churchill/

June 30, 2015

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The moment...

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
/Elizabeth Cady Stanton/

Minna Antrim: The drama...

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
/Minna Antrim/

John D. Rockefeller: I can...

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
/John D. Rockefeller/

June 29, 2015

T. H. White: Please God,...

Please God, said the embryo, I think that You made me in the shape which I now have for reasons best known to Yourselves, and that it would be rude to change. If I am to have my choice I will stay as I am. I will not alter any of the parts which You have made for me, for other and doubtless inferior tools, and I will stay a defenceless embryo all my life, doing my best to make myself a few feeble implements out of the wood, iron, and other materials which You have seen fit to put before me. If I want a boat I will try to construct it out of trees, and if I want to fly, I will put together a chariot to do it for me.
/T. H. White/

June 28, 2015

Paul Graham: Great software,...

Great software, likewise, requires a fanatical devotion to beauty. If you look inside good software, you find that parts no one is ever supposed to see are beautiful too. I'm not claiming I write great software, but I know that when it comes to code I behave in a way that would make me eligible for prescription drugs if I approached everyday life the same way. It drives me crazy to see code that's badly indented, or that uses ugly variable names.
/Paul Graham/

June 27, 2015

Denis Leary: What I've...

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.
/Denis Leary/

June 25, 2015

Barbara Jordan: All my...

All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you've got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you're going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.
/Barbara Jordan/

Frederick Buechner: The life...

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
/Frederick Buechner/

June 21, 2015

Arthur Schopenhauer: There is...

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.
/Arthur Schopenhauer/

John Muir: Thousands of...

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity; and that mountian parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life!
/John Muir/

June 20, 2015

Alexander Haig: Practice rather...

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.
/Alexander Haig/

June 18, 2015

John Dryden: When I...

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
/John Dryden/

June 16, 2015

Antonio Porchia: We tear...

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
/Antonio Porchia/

Lionel Poilane: Bread deals...

Bread deals with living things, with giving life, with growth, with the seed, the grain that nurtures. It is not coincidence that we say bread is the staff of life.
/Lionel Poilane/

June 14, 2015

Samuel Butler: Life is...

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
/Samuel Butler/

June 12, 2015

Vladimir Nabokov: Life is...

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
/Vladimir Nabokov/

June 11, 2015

Morley Safer: I really...

I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.
/Morley Safer/

June 10, 2015

June 06, 2015

Helen P. Blavatsky: We cut...

We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.
/Helen P. Blavatsky/

Henry Beston: We need...

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creatures through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.
/Henry Beston/

John Constable: I never...

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
/John Constable/

June 05, 2015

Albert Camus: I would...

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
/Albert Camus/

Garrison Keillor: This is...

This is a great country, and it wasn't made so by angry people. We have a sacred duty to bequeath it to our grandchildren in better shape than however we found it. We have a long way to go and we're not getting any younger.Dante said that the hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who in time of crisis remain neutral, so I have spoken my piece, and thank you, dear reader. It's a beautiful world, rain or shine, and there is more to life than winning.
/Garrison Keillor/

June 03, 2015

Martin H. Fischer: Life preys...

Life preys upon life. This is biology's most fundamental fact.
/Martin H. Fischer/

May 30, 2015

Logan P. Smith: How can...

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
/Logan P. Smith/

David Halberstam: Bart Giamatti...

Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time ... president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.
/David Halberstam/

Oscar Wilde: Keep love...

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
/Oscar Wilde/

Cheryl James: I'm at...

I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.
/Cheryl James/

May 29, 2015

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Into each...

Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.
/Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/

Prem Rawal: This life...

This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.
/Prem Rawal/

Murray N. Rothbard: If a...

If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also have the right to sustain his life by grappling with and transforming resources; he must be able to own the ground and the resources on which he stands and which he must use. In short, to sustain his human right-or his property rights in his own person-he must also have the property right in the material world, in the objects which he produces.
/Murray N. Rothbard/

Friedrich Nietzsche: He who...

He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.
/Friedrich Nietzsche/

May 26, 2015

John A. Piece: Communication is...

Communication is not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.
/John A. Piece/

May 25, 2015

George Eliot: Life began...

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
/George Eliot/

May 24, 2015

Steve Irwin: I believe...

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.
/Steve Irwin/

May 23, 2015

Edward Said: I have...

I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.
/Edward Said/

May 22, 2015

Thom Yorke: My dad...

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.
/Thom Yorke/

May 21, 2015

Brett Favre: I can't...

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.
/Brett Favre/

Oprah Winfrey: The more...

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
/Oprah Winfrey/

May 19, 2015

Booker T. Washington: There is...

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
/Booker T. Washington/

May 18, 2015

Thomas Wolfe: The whole...

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
/Thomas Wolfe/

Margaret Mahy: By the...

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.
/Margaret Mahy/

May 13, 2015

Soren Kierkegaard: Not even...

Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so deliberately, that he kills himself with thinking - one could barely call it suicide since it is thinking which takes his life. He does not kill himself with deliberation but rather kills himself because of deliberation.
/Soren Kierkegaard/

Charles M. Schulz: My life...

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
/Charles M. Schulz/

May 12, 2015

Meister Eckhart: One person...

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
/Meister Eckhart/

George Wald: I have...

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.
/George Wald/

Robert G. Ingersoll: He who...

He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered with his latest breath, I am better now. Let us believe, in spite of doubts and dogmas, of fears and tears, that these dear words are true of all the countless dead.<br>The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet, unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.
/Robert G. Ingersoll/

Mitchell Baker: There's the...

There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.
/Mitchell Baker/

May 10, 2015

Carol Shields: There are...

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
/Carol Shields/

May 09, 2015

Ella Maillart: From the...

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
/Ella Maillart/

May 08, 2015

Malcolm Muggeridge: One of...

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
/Malcolm Muggeridge/

May 07, 2015

Charles Lindbergh: In wilderness...

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
/Charles Lindbergh/

May 05, 2015

Robert Towne: People who...

People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed not to think of anything else but that, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.
/Robert Towne/

May 04, 2015

Marcus Aurelius: Life is...

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
/Marcus Aurelius/

May 03, 2015

Katharine Butler Hathaway: It is...

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
/Katharine Butler Hathaway/

April 30, 2015

Jean-Paul Sartre: All that...

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
/Jean-Paul Sartre/

April 29, 2015

Willie Aames: This show...

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.
/Willie Aames/

Robert Louis Stevenson: Patriotism is...

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
/Robert Louis Stevenson/

April 28, 2015

William Hazlitt: I would...

I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.
/William Hazlitt/

Stephanie Zimbalist: If I've...

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.
/Stephanie Zimbalist/

April 27, 2015

Charles M. Schulz: I think...

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

April 23, 2015

Karen Horney: Fortunately analysis...

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

April 22, 2015

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: From reincarnated...

From reincarnated sources and through prenatal causes I was born with unquenchable hope and unfaltering faith in God and guardian spirits. I often wept myself to sleep after a day of disappointments and worries but woke in the morning singing aloud with the joy of life.…Once I read a sentence which became a life motto to me. 'If you haven't what you like, try to like what you have.' I bless the author for that phrase it was such a help to me.
/Ella Wheeler Wilcox/

Emil Zatopek: If you...

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
/Emil Zatopek/

April 21, 2015

Jules Verne: The sea...

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
/Jules Verne/

Phillips Brooks: Tomb, thou...

Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer;<BR>Death is strong, but Life is stronger;<BR>Stronger than the dark, the light;<BR>Stronger than the wrong, the right...
/Phillips Brooks/

April 19, 2015

Anais Nin: The personal...

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
/Anais Nin/

Bob Taft: What we...

What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.
/Bob Taft/

William O. Douglas: I realized...

I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly be a horsefly or a bird of paradise or a deer. So a man of such a faith, looking at animals, might be looking at old friends or ancestors. In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of the universe.
/William O. Douglas/

April 18, 2015

George Washington: To point...

To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.
/George Washington/

Judd Nelson: Heroes always...

Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life.
/Judd Nelson/

Max Nordau: Civilization is...

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.
/Max Nordau/

April 16, 2015

George Bernard Shaw: Life does...

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

April 15, 2015

Karen Brademeyer: Who among...

Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?
/Karen Brademeyer/

April 14, 2015

Albert Einstein: The monotony...

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
/Albert Einstein/

April 11, 2015

Tallulah Bankhead: If I...

If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
/Tallulah Bankhead/

April 08, 2015

Carol Shields: Learning to...

Learning to skip has brought control into her life. Whenever she feels all sad, she switches into this wholly happy gait, sliding, hopping, and sliding again; when doing this, it seems as though her head separates from her body, making her feel dizzy and emptied out of bad thoughts. Does anyone else know this trick, she wonders? Probably not, although her Mother sometimes smiles and waves from the window.
/Carol Shields/

April 07, 2015

Hedy Lamarr: I was...

I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
/Hedy Lamarr/

Les Brown: Life has...

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
/Les Brown/

April 05, 2015

Sri Aurobindo: Life is...

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
/Sri Aurobindo/

Anna Garland Spencer: The family...

The family must be democratized in that sense in which each individual within its bond shall be sustained in seeking and in maintaining the conditions of personality. No one human being to live solely for other's service..., but all to seek the utmost perfection of individual life as a contribution to the common life; this is the democratic ideal. There seems to be no other inherited institution in which this spiritual essence of democracy can be so clearly and so well realized as it may be and today often is in the private monogamic family.
/Anna Garland Spencer/

April 04, 2015

Frederick William Faber: We must...

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.
/Frederick William Faber/

April 03, 2015

Pearl S. Buck: The truth...

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
/Pearl S. Buck/

April 02, 2015

Mary Montagu: There can...

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.
/Mary Montagu/

April 01, 2015

Robert Brault: Learning is...

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.
/Robert Brault/

March 30, 2015

Jim Fox: My father...

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
/Jim Fox/

March 29, 2015

Baruch Spinoza: What everyone...

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
/Baruch Spinoza/

March 27, 2015

Jack Irons: I could...

I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
/Jack Irons/

March 25, 2015

James Taylor: People should...

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.
/James Taylor/

William Faulkner: It is...

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.
/William Faulkner/

March 23, 2015

Douglas Coupland: Here’s my...

Here's my theory about meetings and life; the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity. That's why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say, 'Mmmmmm. Interesting.' If pressed, they'll add, 'I'll have to get back to you on that.' Then they don't say anything else.
/Douglas Coupland/

March 22, 2015

Robert Burton: Every man...

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
/Robert Burton/

Robert Mowry Bell: Could life...

Could life so end, half told; its school so fail?<BR>Soul, soul, there is a sequel to thy tale!
/Robert Mowry Bell/

Andy Beckett: I've got...

I've got this friend who's been a junkie for 25 years. He said to me when Trainspotting came out, 'Why have you written this book? You've only been a junkie for five minutes.' Welsh's eyes dim for a moment. Well actually, it was 18 months. He seems keen to go on. It was a stupidity and a weakness. I've not touched it for years, but it's in your vocabulary. If something bad happens in your life, it's always there in the background, waiting for you to trip up. Welsh kept a diary when he was on heroin; sometimes the odd note, sometimes whole therapeutic pages about addiction. Trainspotting in embryo.
/Andy Beckett/

March 21, 2015

Harper Lee: As you...

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
/Harper Lee/

March 20, 2015

Emmeline Pankhurst: There is...

There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
/Emmeline Pankhurst/

March 18, 2015

Michael Eisner: Succeeding is...

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
/Michael Eisner/

David Gerrold: The problem...

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.
/David Gerrold/

March 17, 2015

Lee H. Hamilton: I can...

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.
/Lee H. Hamilton/

March 16, 2015

Cat Stevens: I enjoy...

I enjoy life. I think I'll enjoy death even more.
/Cat Stevens/

Helen Keller: Now I...

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot
see why it is so very important... The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier,
does it?
/Helen Keller/

Frida Kahlo: There have...

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
/Frida Kahlo/

March 15, 2015

Marilyn Hacker: I'm addicted...

I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.
/Marilyn Hacker/

March 14, 2015

Pindar: Words have...

Words have a longer life than deeds.
/Pindar/

Robin Yount: You know...

You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.
/Robin Yount/

March 12, 2015

John Fowles: Content is...

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
/John Fowles/

Zora Neale Hurston: I want...

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
/Zora Neale Hurston/

March 09, 2015

E. W. Howe: All of...

All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
/E. W. Howe/

Philip Zimbardo: Prejudice and...

Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.
/Philip Zimbardo/

March 07, 2015

Dan Rather: A tough...

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
/Dan Rather/

Major Taylor: I can...

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.
/Major Taylor/

Joseph Campbell: It is...

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
/Joseph Campbell/

March 06, 2015

A. J. P. Taylor: There is...

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
/A. J. P. Taylor/

March 05, 2015

Thomas Kempis: Of what...

Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!
/Thomas Kempis/

March 03, 2015

Christine Keeler: One way...

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.
/Christine Keeler/

March 02, 2015

Dag Hammarskjöld: Your body...

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
/Dag Hammarskjöld/

March 01, 2015

Alfred Adler: Trust only...

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
/Alfred Adler/

Marian Wright Edelman: Service is...

Service is what life is all about.
/Marian Wright Edelman/

February 28, 2015

Dustin Hoffman: The two...

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.
/Dustin Hoffman/

February 27, 2015

Aristotle: The energy...

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
/Aristotle/

Lyndon B. Johnson: I'd rather...

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
/Lyndon B. Johnson/

February 25, 2015

Ada Cambridge: Have all...

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
/Ada Cambridge/

February 24, 2015

André Maurois: The art...

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
/André Maurois/

February 23, 2015

Alfred Adler: We only...

We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a getaway. We cannot love and be limited.
/Alfred Adler/

February 21, 2015

Shoshana Zuboff: The civilizing...

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.
/Shoshana Zuboff/

February 19, 2015

Helen Garner: It's a...

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.
/Helen Garner/

Thomas Jefferson: The care...

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
/Thomas Jefferson/

February 18, 2015

Friedrich Schiller: History, insofar...

History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the individual imperceptibly over into humanity.
/Friedrich Schiller/

February 16, 2015

Frederico Fellini: There is...

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
/Frederico Fellini/

Mikhail Bakunin: Look at...

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.
/Mikhail Bakunin/

February 15, 2015

Newton Diehl Baker: The great...

The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.
/Newton Diehl Baker/

Oliver Wendell Holmes: It's faith...

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
/Oliver Wendell Holmes/

Ayn Rand: The good,...

The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive - a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society - a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself... The purpose of man's life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
/Ayn Rand/

February 14, 2015

Gordon Parks: I've been...

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.
/Gordon Parks/

Vincent Gallo: I never...

I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him.
/Vincent Gallo/

Henry David Thoreau: There is...

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law. It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound. Live free, child of the mist--and with respect to knowledge we are all children of the mist. The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker. That is active duty, says the Vishnu Purana, which is not for our bondage; that is knowledge which is for our liberation: all other duty is good only unto weariness; all other knowledge is only the cleverness of an artist.
/Henry David Thoreau/

February 13, 2015

Arthur Ashe: From what...

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
/Arthur Ashe/

February 12, 2015

Taylor Caldwell: My life...

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
/Taylor Caldwell/

John Muir: Let children...

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
/John Muir/

February 10, 2015

Dave Davies: I think...

I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy state. I think its making people think more about their life and what it is really that they are doing. And how do we interact with a world that's going crazy? It's a very important time.
/Dave Davies/

February 09, 2015

Alvar Aalto: Building art...

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
/Alvar Aalto/

Leon Edel: The biographer...

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
/Leon Edel/

Jim Valvano: I just...

I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.
/Jim Valvano/

February 07, 2015

Sara Teasdale: Life has...

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
/Sara Teasdale/

Sean O'Casey: I have...

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.
/Sean O'Casey/

February 06, 2015

Bertrand Russell: Life is...

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
/Bertrand Russell/

Marty Feldman: I won't...

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.
/Marty Feldman/

Dwight D. Eisenhower: I feel...

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
/Dwight D. Eisenhower/

Adam Savage: Remember kids,...

Remember kids, I have life insurance.
/Adam Savage/

February 04, 2015

Fred Allen: A celebrity...

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
/Fred Allen/

February 03, 2015

John Lachs: Much as...

Much as we complain about our condition or feel victimized by fortune or fellow humans, we simply love being alive. We love life in others and in ourselves. We are in love with life. To love life is to love the activities of which it consists and to hope for more.
/John Lachs/

February 02, 2015

Adolf Hitler: It may...

It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down to a higher god. Many things today owe their existence solely to the longing for money and wealth, but there is very little among them whose non-existence would leave humanity any the poorer.
/Adolf Hitler/

February 01, 2015

Judy Garland: I've always...

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.
/Judy Garland/

William Shakespeare: Nothing in...

Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.
/William Shakespeare/

January 30, 2015

Christian Bale: I don't...

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
/Christian Bale/

January 29, 2015

Bruce Lee: The key...

The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.
/Bruce Lee/

Rufus Wainwright: I may...

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's War and Peace everyday.
/Rufus Wainwright/

Ronald Reagan: We have...

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
/Ronald Reagan/

January 28, 2015

Ivan Illich: The medicalization...

The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.
/Ivan Illich/

January 26, 2015

Thomas Merton: Death is...

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
/Thomas Merton/

January 24, 2015

Henry David Thoreau: However mean...

However mean your life is, meet it and live it;do not shun it and call it hard names.
/Henry David Thoreau/

January 23, 2015

Melinda Gates: I want...

I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.
/Melinda Gates/

Solomon ibn Gabirol: All men...

All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
/Solomon ibn Gabirol/

January 22, 2015

Jeanne Calment: Excuse me...

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.
/Jeanne Calment/

John Morley: The great...

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
/John Morley/

January 20, 2015

Oliver Wendell Holmes: On the...

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
/Oliver Wendell Holmes/

January 19, 2015

Daniel Chopin: There's nothing...

There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.
/Daniel Chopin/

Luis Bunuel: I can...

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
/Luis Bunuel/

George Gordon Byron: Let's not...

Let's not unman each other - part at once;<BR>All farewells should be sudden, when forever,<BR>Else they make an eternity of moments,<BR>And clog the last sad sands of life with tears.
/George Gordon Byron/

January 18, 2015

Oscar Wilde: The great...

The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.
/Oscar Wilde/

Joy Page: You may...

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.
/Joy Page/

Jane Badler: I feel...

I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.
/Jane Badler/

January 17, 2015

Charles M. Schulz: Life is...

Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
/Charles M. Schulz/

January 14, 2015

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Intellectual tasting...

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

January 13, 2015

Kim Elizabeth: Nothing is...

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.
/Kim Elizabeth/

January 11, 2015

John Greenleaf Whittier: Clothe with...

Clothe with life the weak intent, let me be the thing I meant.
/John Greenleaf Whittier/

Oliver Wendell Holmes: It is...

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
/Oliver Wendell Holmes/

January 07, 2015

Barbara De Angelis: They're basically...

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.
/Barbara De Angelis/

Sai Baba: Life is...

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
/Sai Baba/

January 04, 2015

Thomas Babington Macaulay: I shall...

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.
/Thomas Babington Macaulay/

January 02, 2015

George Andrew Olah: Although reading...

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.
/George Andrew Olah/

January 01, 2015

Rollo May: Life comes...

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
/Rollo May/