December 31, 2016

Mike Dickenson: Death is...

Death is but a dream and life is merely the daydream of death.
/Mike Dickenson/

December 29, 2016

William Feather: No man...

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
/William Feather/

Forrest Curran: Your life...

Your life is your artwork and you are to paint life as a beautiful struggle. With your brush, paint the colors of joy in vibrant shades of red. Color the sky a baby blue, a color as free as your heart. With rich, earthy tones shade the valleys that run deep into the ground where heaven meets hell. Life is as chaotic as the color black, a blend of all colors, and this makes life a beautiful struggle. Be grateful for the green that makes up the beautiful canvas, for nature has given you everything that you need to be happy. Most of all, don`t ever feel the need to fill the entire canvas with paint, for the places left blank are the most honest expressions of who you are.
/Forrest Curran/

December 28, 2016

December 27, 2016

Debasish Mridha: Never stop...

Never stop learning, when you stop learning, life stops.
/Debasish Mridha/

Sandra Chami Kassis: You never...

You never understand life until it grows inside of you.
/Sandra Chami Kassis/

December 25, 2016

Bono: One Life,...

One Life, with each other, Sisters, Brothers...
/Bono/

December 24, 2016

Matthew Donnelly: All joy...

All joy lies in the present moment. The journey of life and prosperity are made of the present moment.
/Matthew Donnelly/

December 17, 2016

L.M. Montgomery: My life...

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
/L.M. Montgomery/

December 16, 2016

Paulo Coelho: When we...

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
/Paulo Coelho/

December 15, 2016

Herbert Spencer: [L]et us...

[L]et us not overlook the further great fact, that not only does science underlie sculpture, painting, music, poetry, but that science is itself poetic. The current opinion that science and poetry are opposed is a delusion. ... On the contrary science opens up realms of poetry where to the unscientific all is a blank. Those engaged in scientific researches constantly show us that they realize not less vividly, but more vividly, than others, the poetry of their subjects. Whoever will dip into Hugh Miller`s works on geology, or read Mr. Lewes`s ?Seaside Studies,? will perceive that science excites poetry rather than extinguishes it. And whoever will contemplate the life of Goethe will see that the poet and the man of science can co-exist in equal activity. Is it not, indeed, an absurd and almost a sacrilegious belief that the more a man studies Nature the less he reveres it? Think you that a drop of water, which to the vulgar eye is but a drop of water, loses anything in the eye of the physicist who knows that its elements are held together by a force which, if suddenly liberated, would produce a flash of lightning? Think you that what is carelessly looked upon by the uninitiated as a mere snow-flake, does not suggest higher associations to one who has seen through a microscope the wondrously varied and elegant forms of snow-crystals? Think you that the rounded rock marked with parallel scratches calls up as much poetry in an ignorant mind as in the mind of a geologist, who knows that over this rock a glacier slid a million years ago? The truth is, that those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. Whoever has not in youth collected plants and insects, knows not half the halo of interest which lanes and hedge-rows can assume. Whoever has not sought for fossils, has little idea of the poetical associations that surround the places where imbedded treasures were found. Whoever at the seaside has not had a microscope and aquarium, has yet to learn what the highest pleasures of the seaside are. Sad, indeed, is it to see how men occupy themselves with trivialities, and are indifferent to the grandest phenomena?care not to understand the architecture of the universe, but are deeply interested in some contemptible controversy about the intrigues of Mary Queen of Scots!?are learnedly critical over a Greek ode, and pass by without a glance that grand epic... upon the strata of the Earth!
/Herbert Spencer/

December 12, 2016

John Banville: Still the...

Still the dream persists, suppressed but always there, that somehow by some miraculous effort of the heart what was done could be undone. What form would such atonement take that would turn back time and bring the dead to life? None. None possible, not in the real world. And yet in my imaginings I can clearly see this cleansed new creature steaming up out of myself like a proselyte rising drenched from the baptismal river amid glad cries.
/John Banville/

Chris Crutcher: ...we can...

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you`re in it and your life is better because I`m in it.
/Chris Crutcher/

December 10, 2016

V.S. Carnes: It was...

It was a question of insurmountable proportions. A single word that held every fear he had ever had-and every wish he had ever made on those cursed stars. She needn`t say more. In a single syllable, she had said more than he wanted to hear in an entire lifetime.
/V.S. Carnes/

December 07, 2016

Steve Maraboli: Your agreement...

Your agreement with reality defines your life.
/Steve Maraboli/

Helmut Walcha: Bach opens...

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.
/Helmut Walcha/

December 06, 2016

Nakia R. Laushaul: There will...

There will come a time in every girl`s life when she realizes that your ex-girlfriend wasn`t crazy. Actually, she was right (about you).
/Nakia R. Laushaul/

Donald L. Hicks: If you...

If you Love all Life you observe, you will observe all Life will Love.
/Donald L. Hicks/

December 04, 2016

Rachel Carson: Those who...

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
/Rachel Carson/

Jacques Yonnet: But this...

But this is something you need to know: when you find a place that suits you, where you decide to go back to often, to meet your pals there, if you want to feel at home and not discover some snag at the wrong moment, sit yourself in a corner, write letters, read, try and eat there, and watch what goes on for a whole day. At least twice during the day, and three times if the place is open at night, there`s that moment of ?temporal void?. It happens every day, at the very same hour, at the very same minute, but it varies from place to place. People are talking, letting their hair down, having a drink together, and all of a sudden, the moment of silence: everyone turns stock still, with their glasses in the air, their eyes fixed. Immediately afterwards the hubbub resumes. But that moment when nothing?s happening - it can last five, ten minutes. And during that time, outside and everywhere else, for other people life goes on, faster, much faster, like an avalanche. If you`re prepared for it, and take advantage of that moment not to be fazed and to have your say, you`re certain to be heard, and if necessary even obeyed. Try it. You?ll see.
/Jacques Yonnet/

Sarah Dessen: Well, it`s...

Well, it`s true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it`s also true that I have loved, and been loved. and that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It`s like that pie chart we talked about earlier. in the end, I`ll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.
/Sarah Dessen/

December 03, 2016

Amit Kalantri: The meaning...

The meaning of life is not celebrating your birth, it is celebrating your work.
/Amit Kalantri/

December 02, 2016

Debasish Mridha: Oh! let...

Oh! let me love forever. Let me die in love. Life is valueless dust if love touched you never.
/Debasish Mridha/

December 01, 2016

Eugene O'Neill: Why am...

Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid of love, I who love love?.. Why was I born without a skin, O God, that I must wear armor in order to touch or to be touched?
/Eugene O'Neill/

November 29, 2016

Walter Savage Landor: The damps...

The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
/Walter Savage Landor/

November 27, 2016

Jarod Kintz: The good,...

The good, the bad, and the ugly basically sums up my sex life. Except that I`ve never had the good.
/Jarod Kintz/

November 26, 2016

Annie Dillard: You cannot...

You cannot mend the chromosome, quell the earthquake, or stanch the flood. You cannot atone for the dead tyrants? murders and you alone cannot stop living tyrants. As Martin Buber saw it, the world of ordinary days ?affords? us that precise association with god that redeems both us and our speck of world. God entrusts and allots to everyone an area to redeem: this creased and feeble life, ?the world in which you live, just as it is, and not otherwise.? ?Insofar as he cultivates and enjoys them in holiness, he frees their souls?he who prays and sings in holiness, eats and speaks in holiness?through him the sparks which have fallen will be uplifted, and the worlds which have fallen will be delivered and renewed.
/Annie Dillard/

November 24, 2016

György Ligeti: I don`t...

I don`t read such boring things. Life is too short.
/György Ligeti/

November 23, 2016

Shannon L. Alder: Not every...

Not every person wants the prettiest, smartest, talented or spiritually uplifting person to build a life with. Sometimes we just want that special someone that makes sense, puts up with us, has patience, comes without drama, gives us focus and is willing to run with our half-baked ideas.
/Shannon L. Alder/

November 22, 2016

November 19, 2016

Avis J. Williams: We are...

We are already abundant, we have everything we need within us, to live a purposeful and fulfilling life.
/Avis J. Williams/

November 18, 2016

Gina Lake: What a...

What a surprise it is to discover that you have never needed to strive to survive and be happy after all. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, who discovered that she always had the means for going home, you already have what you need to be happy and safe. You have never really left Home. However, if you don`t believe you already have what you need to be happy and safe, it is as if it isn`t true: If we don`t know the ruby slippers will take us home, it`s like not having them. The ego keeps us from seeing the truth about those ruby slippers- it keeps us from seeing the truth about life. Home is right here, right now, but we may not realize it and there for not experience Home, or Essence as much as we might.
/Gina Lake/

November 17, 2016

Lailah Gifty Akita: If we...

If we focus on the problems of life, we will be paralysed. But we dwell on the promise of God; we find the faith, hope and courage to survive life.
/Lailah Gifty Akita/

November 16, 2016

C. JoyBell C.: I looked...

I looked long and hard for the paper roses! I found the reddest red ribbon, and a little golden card! We were all there together, many of us, in the same place; but I was the only one who found the paper roses, the only one who chose the reddest red ribbon, and the only one who topped off with a golden card. And so I learned that if people are unhappy, it is only because they don`t know how to look for the paper roses, they don`t see the reddest red ribbon, and they don`t like the little golden cards. We are all in the same wrap-shoppe in this life. But we are different. Because some of us are looking for the paper roses, choosing the reddest red ribbon, and picking up the little golden cards.
/C. JoyBell C./

Benny Bellamacina: Life is...

Life is like a one rung ladder, some days you can be on the top and bottom of the world at the same time
/Benny Bellamacina/

Gerhard Kocher: Is there...

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?
/Gerhard Kocher/

November 15, 2016

Jonathan Edwards: Prayer is...

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
/Jonathan Edwards/

November 14, 2016

Shirley Temple: Our whole...

Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life - and if we fail, our government stands ready with Bandaids of every size.
/Shirley Temple/

Miriam Makeba: It's a...

It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.
/Miriam Makeba/

November 12, 2016

November 11, 2016

Sara Paretsky: I thought...

I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.
/Sara Paretsky/

November 09, 2016

Niccolò Machiavelli: A return...

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
/Niccolò Machiavelli/

November 08, 2016

Oliver Goldsmith: O, blest...

O, blest retirement! friend to life's decline -<BR>How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these,<BR>A youth of labor with an age of ease!
/Oliver Goldsmith/

Hugh Mackay: Perhaps it's...

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.
/Hugh Mackay/

November 07, 2016

Anais Nin: If one's...

If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.
/Anais Nin/

November 06, 2016

Marcia Wallace: I have...

I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.
/Marcia Wallace/

November 04, 2016

Primo Levi: Sooner or...

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.
/Primo Levi/

Gabriela Sabatini: I think...

I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
/Gabriela Sabatini/

Robert Brault: Why be...

Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.
/Robert Brault/

November 03, 2016

George Newell Lovejoy: Once more...

Once more to new creation Awake,<BR>and death gainsay,<BR>For death is swallowed up of life,<BR>And Christ is risen today!
/George Newell Lovejoy/

November 02, 2016

Letitia Elizabeth Landon: We might...

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
/Letitia Elizabeth Landon/

Erno Rubik: Our whole...

Our whole life is solving puzzles.
/Erno Rubik/

October 26, 2016

Helen Rowland: The hardest...

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
/Helen Rowland/

October 25, 2016

Don Miguel Ruiz: Our minds...

Our minds have the need to "know." When we don't know, we make assumptions - they make us feel safer than not knowing. And we are pretty much always making assumptions. We assume that we know how someone is going to react to us. We assume that our efforts will or will not be successful. And not only do we believe our assumptions about what other people are thinking, but then we end up taking those assumptions personally and even end up resenting the person. To avoid assumptions, ask questions. It takes courage to trust the present moment, to allow other people to be exactly who they are, and to let life unfold according to its own plan… and it avoids a great deal of suffering.
/Don Miguel Ruiz/

October 23, 2016

Kenny Dalglish: I had...

I had to know if I could make it somewhere else. I did not want to go through the rest of my life wondering what might have been without putting myself to the test.
/Kenny Dalglish/

October 21, 2016

Lion Feuchtwanger: Like the...

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.
/Lion Feuchtwanger/

P. G. Wodehouse: It is...

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
/P. G. Wodehouse/

October 20, 2016

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: The most...

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
/Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe/

Emeril Lagasse: Life just...

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.
/Emeril Lagasse/

October 18, 2016

Theodore Roosevelt: Never throughout...

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
/Theodore Roosevelt/

October 17, 2016

Dag Hammarskjöld: Life only...

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
/Dag Hammarskjöld/

Oscar Wilde: Good taste...

Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.
/Oscar Wilde/

October 16, 2016

Paul Tillich: Religion is...

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of the meaning of our life.
/Paul Tillich/

October 14, 2016

C. G. Jung: Even a...

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
/C. G. Jung/

Rudolph Giuliani: What children...

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.
/Rudolph Giuliani/

October 10, 2016

Paul Valéry: There are...

There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life:<br>When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
/Paul Valéry/

October 08, 2016

Billy Graham: We cannot...

We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.
/Billy Graham/

October 07, 2016

John C. Maxwell: Everything you...

Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities.
/John C. Maxwell/

October 04, 2016

Rabindranath Tagore: Love's overbrimming...

Love's overbrimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
/Rabindranath Tagore/

Elbert Hubbard: Life in...

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
/Elbert Hubbard/

October 02, 2016

Gary Oldman: If one...

If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon.
/Gary Oldman/

Mignon McLaughlin: Many of...

Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.
/Mignon McLaughlin/

October 01, 2016

Blaine Lee: Any change,...

Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power.
/Blaine Lee/

September 30, 2016

Salvatore Quasimodo: In opposition...

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
/Salvatore Quasimodo/

September 29, 2016

John Mayer: Life is...

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the eight-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing. It's okay though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the eight-color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean, there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation, so when I meet someone who's an eight-color type I'm like, hey girl, magenta! and she's like, oh, you mean purple! and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, no - I want magenta!
/John Mayer/

Earl Nightingale: Our attitude...

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
/Earl Nightingale/

September 26, 2016

Grace Hansen: Don't be...

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.
/Grace Hansen/

September 24, 2016

Barbara Walters: To not...

To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
/Barbara Walters/

September 23, 2016

Dennis Eckersley: They developed...

They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.
/Dennis Eckersley/

September 21, 2016

Tennessee Williams: Oh you...

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
/Tennessee Williams/

Lillian Dickson: Life is...

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
/Lillian Dickson/

Adolf Eichmann: Now that...

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think.
/Adolf Eichmann/

September 20, 2016

Henry David Thoreau: So our...

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
/Henry David Thoreau/

September 18, 2016

Jena Malone: It's very...

It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.
/Jena Malone/

Evelyn Underhill: After all...

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
/Evelyn Underhill/

September 17, 2016

Mark Twain: Obscurity and...

Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
/Mark Twain/

September 15, 2016

James A. Michener: If a...

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
/James A. Michener/

September 14, 2016

Anthony J. D'Angelo: If life...

If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
/Anthony J. D'Angelo/

September 13, 2016

Boris Pasternak: Art has...

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
/Boris Pasternak/

Tom Landry: ...even after...

...even after you've just won the Super Bowl - especially after you've just won the Super Bowl - there's always next year. If Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing, then the only thing is nothing - emptiness, the nightmare of life without ultimate meaning.
/Tom Landry/

September 12, 2016

Peter Gallagher: My family...

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.
/Peter Gallagher/

September 11, 2016

Gita Bellin: Experience is...

Experience is determined by yourself - not the circumstances of your life.
/Gita Bellin/

John Galsworthy: Religion was...

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
/John Galsworthy/

September 10, 2016

Robert Browning: But how...

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
/Robert Browning/

September 09, 2016

Pearl S. Buck: Like Confucius...

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born, myself a human being.
/Pearl S. Buck/

September 08, 2016

Charles Vest: Over-reliance on...

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.
/Charles Vest/

September 07, 2016

Ralph Waldo Emerson: We as...

We as for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

Naguib Mahfouz: Winning Nobel...

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
/Naguib Mahfouz/

September 06, 2016

W. Somerset Maugham: My own...

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
/W. Somerset Maugham/

September 04, 2016

Katharine Hepburn: Life can...

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share.But whatever happens to you, you still have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analyses, you have got not to forget to laugh.
/Katharine Hepburn/

Bob Newhart: All I...

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!
/Bob Newhart/

September 03, 2016

Jerry Hall: A healthy...

A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages.
/Jerry Hall/

John G. Hibben: Education is...

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.
/John G. Hibben/

September 02, 2016

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Life is...

Life is a progress, and not a station.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

Confucius: Choose a...

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
/Confucius/

James Joyce: Every life...

Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
/James Joyce/

September 01, 2016

Morihei Ueshiba: All life...

All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
/Morihei Ueshiba/

Marshall Fishwick: The uncommitted...

The uncommitted life isn't worth living.
/Marshall Fishwick/

August 31, 2016

August 30, 2016

Shakti Gawain: When I'm...

When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
/Shakti Gawain/

Michel de Montaigne: We are...

We are great fools: He has spent his life in idleness. We say, I have done nothing today. Really, have you not lived? This is not only the most fundamental but the most illustrious of your occupations… Have you been able to think about and manage your life? You have managed the greatest burden of all… To compose our nature is our responsibility, not to write books. To gain order and tranquility, not to win battles and provinces, is our goal. Our grand and glorious masterpiece is to live suitably.
/Michel de Montaigne/

August 27, 2016

Larisa Oleynik: I don't...

I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.
/Larisa Oleynik/

August 26, 2016

John Masefield: In this...

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
/John Masefield/

Twyla Tharp: My mother...

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
/Twyla Tharp/

August 25, 2016

Ayn Rand: This is...

This is the difference between my morality and hedonism. The standard is not: that is good which gives me pleasure, just because it gives me pleasure (which is the standard of the dipsomaniac or the sex-chaser)—but that is good which is the expression of my moral values, and that gives me pleasure. Since the proper moral code is based on man's nature and his survival, and since joy is the expression of his survival, this form of happiness can have no contradiction in it, it is both 'short range' and 'long range' (as all of man's life has to be), and it leads to the furtherance of his life, not to his destruction.
/Ayn Rand/

August 22, 2016

Liberty Hyde Bailey: My life...

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.
/Liberty Hyde Bailey/

August 21, 2016

Michel de Montaigne: There is...

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging 10 times in his life.
/Michel de Montaigne/

August 16, 2016

George Bernard Shaw: In the...

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
/George Bernard Shaw/

August 15, 2016

Lois Wyse: A good...

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
/Lois Wyse/

Colette: Total absence...

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
/Colette/

August 14, 2016

Abraham Cahan: If it...

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
/Abraham Cahan/

Minnie Maddern Fiske: Their rebukes...

Their rebukes have never made me angry, because I have always wondered why they did not rebuke me more. They should have. Their friendly praise has been one of the sweetest, most warming things in my life in the theater. I do go on the stage unafraid of them and with love in my heart for them.
/Minnie Maddern Fiske/

August 13, 2016

Christiaan Barnard: I don't...

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
/Christiaan Barnard/

David Steindl-Rast: Sometimes people...

Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being.
/David Steindl-Rast/

Penelope Keith: I think...

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.
/Penelope Keith/

August 11, 2016

Mason Cooley: The routines...

The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
/Mason Cooley/

August 10, 2016

Emeril Lagasse: I guess...

I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake.
/Emeril Lagasse/

Nicolas de Chamfort: Contemplation often...

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
/Nicolas de Chamfort/

August 08, 2016

Agnetha Faltskog: When I'm...

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!
/Agnetha Faltskog/

August 05, 2016

Robert Powell: Make your...

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.
/Robert Powell/

August 04, 2016

Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The man...

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
/Edward Bulwer-Lytton/

Andy Warhol: People need...

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
/Andy Warhol/

Pindar: Seek not,...

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.
/Pindar/

August 02, 2016

Henry David Thoreau: Our whole...

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
/Henry David Thoreau/

Joseph Brodsky: What should...

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
/Joseph Brodsky/

Luis Palau: When you...

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.
/Luis Palau/

August 01, 2016

Luis Bunuel: All my...

All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.
/Luis Bunuel/

Karl Jaspers: Only then,...

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
/Karl Jaspers/

Oscar Wilde: Life would...

Life would be dull without them.
/Oscar Wilde/

Artie Lange: When I...

When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.
/Artie Lange/

Gregg Easterbrook: But by...

But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.
/Gregg Easterbrook/

July 28, 2016

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: To say...

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.
/Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/

July 26, 2016

Elbert Hubbard: Rivalry is...

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
/Elbert Hubbard/

July 25, 2016

Henry David Thoreau: If the...

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth,-certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter- friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.
/Henry David Thoreau/

July 24, 2016

Paul Pearshall: Our most...

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.
/Paul Pearshall/

July 23, 2016

Albert Schweitzer: A man...

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
/Albert Schweitzer/

July 21, 2016

Joyce Carol Oates: Life and...

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
/Joyce Carol Oates/

July 20, 2016

Pablo Picasso: Love is...

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
/Pablo Picasso/

Stephen Leacock: Life, we...

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
/Stephen Leacock/

July 19, 2016

John Berger: Publicity is...

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
/John Berger/

July 18, 2016

Igor Stravinsky: I have...

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
/Igor Stravinsky/

Buddha: Just as...

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
/Buddha/

July 14, 2016

Carl Lewis: Life is...

Life is about timing.
/Carl Lewis/

Grace Murray Hopper: Life was...

Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
/Grace Murray Hopper/

July 13, 2016

Hamid Karzai: Life without...

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
/Hamid Karzai/

Christine Keeler: We lived...

We lived a very quiet life. We'd never go out. We once went to that sex orgy, and I didn't like it, and that was that. And there were maybe one or two cocktail parties.
/Christine Keeler/

Randall Terry: We are...

We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.
/Randall Terry/

July 12, 2016

Katey Sagal: But I...

But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room.
/Katey Sagal/

William James: A chain...

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
/William James/

William Shakespeare: 'Tis the...

'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
/William Shakespeare/

July 10, 2016

Michael Irvin: I can't...

I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives.
/Michael Irvin/

July 09, 2016

Rainer Maria Rilke: If your...

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
/Rainer Maria Rilke/

July 08, 2016

Shakti Gawain: I am...

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.
/Shakti Gawain/

July 06, 2016

Thomas Jefferson: Say nothing...

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
/Thomas Jefferson/

Jim Capaldi: We played...

We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life.
/Jim Capaldi/

July 04, 2016

George Burns: I look...

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
/George Burns/

July 03, 2016

George Lancaster Spalding: Life without...

Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
/George Lancaster Spalding/

Dan Gable: Once you've...

Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.
/Dan Gable/

July 02, 2016

Albert Einstein: The really...

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime...
/Albert Einstein/

June 29, 2016

Robert A. Cook: We dribble...

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at once.
/Robert A. Cook/

Plutarch: The whole...

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
/Plutarch/

June 28, 2016

Jane Wagner: All my...

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
/Jane Wagner/

Peyton Conway March: There is...

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom, and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else.
/Peyton Conway March/

George Mikes: Many continentals...

Many continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
/George Mikes/

June 27, 2016

Jeb Dickerson: If the...

If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It's safer than the alternative.
/Jeb Dickerson/

June 25, 2016

Ann Landers: Class is...

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
/Ann Landers/

Euripides: There is...

There is just one life for each of us: our own.
/Euripides/

June 24, 2016

H. W. Byles: Cheerfulness is...

Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking.
/H. W. Byles/

June 23, 2016

Henry James: The only...

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
/Henry James/

Ursula K. Le Guin: If you...

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
/Ursula K. Le Guin/

June 21, 2016

James Truslow Adams: Be not...

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
/James Truslow Adams/

Andrzej Wajda: We expected...

We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.
/Andrzej Wajda/

Alain de Botton: The longing...

The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams.
/Alain de Botton/

June 20, 2016

Minoru Yamasaki: And I...

And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.
/Minoru Yamasaki/

George Herbert: Life is...

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

June 19, 2016

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A man...

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

Elbert Hubbard: Every life...

Every life is its own excuse for being.
/Elbert Hubbard/

June 18, 2016

Susan Sarandon: So I...

So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.
/Susan Sarandon/

June 17, 2016

John Sterling: Pain has...

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
/John Sterling/

June 16, 2016

Richard Needham: Every woman...

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.
/Richard Needham/

June 13, 2016

Carla Gordon: If someone...

If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.
/Carla Gordon/

June 12, 2016

Edward Bulwer-Lytton: In life,...

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
/Edward Bulwer-Lytton/

June 11, 2016

Penelope Keith: The character...

The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?
/Penelope Keith/

Georges Courteline: If it...

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.
/Georges Courteline/

June 09, 2016

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Don't waste...

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

Werner Erhard: Responsibility begins...

Responsibility begins with the willingness to be cause in the matter of one's life. Ultimately, it is a context from which one chooses to live. Responsibility is not burden, fault, praise, blame, credit, shame or guilt. In responsibility, there is no evaluation of good or bad, right or wrong. There is simply what's so, and your stand. Being responsible starts with the willingness to deal with a situation from the view of life that you are the generator of what you do, what you have and what you are. That is not the truth. It is a place to stand. No one can make you responsible, nor can you impose responsibility on another. It is a grace you give yourself - an empowering context that leaves you with a say in the matter of life.
/Werner Erhard/

June 08, 2016

John Olver: America has...

America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life.
/John Olver/

June 07, 2016

Steve Martin: You know...

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
/Steve Martin/

June 05, 2016

Henny Youngman: If you...

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.
/Henny Youngman/

June 04, 2016

Samuel L. Jackson: Not everybody...

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
/Samuel L. Jackson/

June 02, 2016

David R. Hawkins: Make a...

Make a gift of your life and lift all mankind by being kind, considerate, forgiving, and compassionate at all times, in all places, and under all conditions, with everyone as well as yourself. This is the greatest gift anyone can give.
/David R. Hawkins/

Pearl S. Buck: If our...

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
/Pearl S. Buck/

June 01, 2016

Leslie Easterbrook: Mother Firefly...

Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.
/Leslie Easterbrook/

May 31, 2016

Ian Hornak: My idea...

My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike mood. And the viewer himself can't understand why that mood exists, because there are no dripping watches or grotesque shapes as reference points. That is what I'm after: that mood which is apart from everyday life, the type of mood that one experiences at very special moments.
/Ian Hornak/

May 30, 2016

C. G. Jung: Unfortunately, there...

Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it… But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected… No one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
/C. G. Jung/

May 26, 2016

Gerald G. Jampolsky: When I...

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
/Gerald G. Jampolsky/

May 24, 2016

Oscar Wilde: Paradoxically though...

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
/Oscar Wilde/

May 23, 2016

Karl Radek: Life provides...

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.
/Karl Radek/

May 22, 2016

Seneca: A happy...

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
/Seneca/

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor: Why was...

Why was it that the more advanced a civilization became in conquering sickness, the more expert it became in the destruction of human life? Was there ever a golden age, anywhere, where science was advanced and men were humane? Were the two incompatible some how?
/Phyllis Reynolds Naylor/

May 21, 2016

George Eliot: The beginning...

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
/George Eliot/

May 20, 2016

Lynn Redgrave: But I'm...

But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off.
/Lynn Redgrave/

May 19, 2016

Samuel Johnson: Almost every...

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.
/Samuel Johnson/

May 18, 2016

Henry James: If I...

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
/Henry James/

Naomi Campbell: I live...

I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.
/Naomi Campbell/

May 17, 2016

Reba McEntire: To succeed...

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
/Reba McEntire/

Roald Dahl: All through...

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.
/Roald Dahl/

Miguel de Unamuno: Suffering is...

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
/Miguel de Unamuno/

May 14, 2016

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: One could...

One could sit still and look at life from the air; that was it. And I was conscious again of the fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - speed, accessibility, and convenience - and will not change as they change. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. What motion there was took on a slow grace, like slow-motion pictures which catch the moment of outstretched beauty that one cannot see in life itself, so swiftly does it move.<br>And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down to the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic.
/Anne Morrow Lindbergh/

William Wordsworth: The little...

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
/William Wordsworth/

Robert Brault: Why try...

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.
/Robert Brault/

May 13, 2016

W. E. Channing: God be...

God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
/W. E. Channing/

May 12, 2016

Daniel Nathans: Small science,...

Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order.
/Daniel Nathans/

May 11, 2016

Eckhart Tolle: Nobody’s life...

Nobody's life is entirely free of pain and sorrow. Isn't it a question of learning to live with them rather than trying to avoid them?<br>The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind.
/Eckhart Tolle/

May 10, 2016

Edie Falco: I was...

I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that.
/Edie Falco/

May 09, 2016

Ralph Waldo Emerson: There are...

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

May 08, 2016

Ralph Waldo Emerson: How we...

How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature! And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

May 07, 2016

Gustav Mahler: The impressions...

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
/Gustav Mahler/

May 06, 2016

Tina Yothers: I can't...

I can't wait to see The Grinch. It's so out of the world. Every time a movie like that comes out, I'm stoked. It's like real life.
/Tina Yothers/

Orison Swett Marden: The waste...

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
/Orison Swett Marden/

May 04, 2016

Judith Olney: Once in...

Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.
/Judith Olney/

Samuel Butler: An empty...

An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
/Samuel Butler/

May 03, 2016

Isabelle Adjani: Life has...

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.
/Isabelle Adjani/

May 01, 2016

Ray Bradbury: When I...

When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby.
/Ray Bradbury/

April 28, 2016

Joan D. Vinge: We are...

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
/Joan D. Vinge/

Mignon McLaughlin: Your money,...

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
/Mignon McLaughlin/

April 27, 2016

Albert Einstein: What is...

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
/Albert Einstein/

April 26, 2016

Ayn Rand: I swear,...

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
/Ayn Rand/

April 25, 2016

Jason Zebehazy: Three things...

Three things are needed for a good life, good friends, good food, and good song.
/Jason Zebehazy/

Karl J. Weintraub: History is...

History is the discipline closest to life; and life is rarely free of contradictions.
/Karl J. Weintraub/

April 23, 2016

Logan P. Smith: This nice...

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.
/Logan P. Smith/

Henry Edward Manning: A habit...

A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.
/Henry Edward Manning/

April 21, 2016

Winston Churchill: The human...

The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.
/Winston Churchill/

April 19, 2016

C. G. Jung: In the...

In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.
/C. G. Jung/

April 18, 2016

Rob Walton: If it...

If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.
/Rob Walton/

April 17, 2016

April 16, 2016

Holbrook Jackson: The end...

The end of reading is not more books but more life.
/Holbrook Jackson/

Claire Danes: What I...

What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting.
/Claire Danes/

April 15, 2016

Anthony J. D'Angelo: Life is...

Life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured.
/Anthony J. D'Angelo/

Henry David Thoreau: Shams and...

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life ... would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.
/Henry David Thoreau/

April 14, 2016

Frederic William Farrar: There is...

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
/Frederic William Farrar/

April 13, 2016

Jamie Redknapp: But what...

But what goes on in my life outside of the game should be my business.
/Jamie Redknapp/

April 11, 2016

John Randolph: Life is...

Life is not so important as the duties of life.
/John Randolph/

April 09, 2016

Teri Garr: Oddly enough,...

Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze.
/Teri Garr/

April 07, 2016

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: With age...

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
/Elizabeth Cady Stanton/

April 05, 2016

Seth Parker: You may...

You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.
/Seth Parker/

Clay Aiken: I kind...

I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.
/Clay Aiken/

Paul Merton: My school...

My school days were the happiest days of my life, which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.
/Paul Merton/

April 04, 2016

Jeremy Thorpe: Greater love...

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.
/Jeremy Thorpe/

April 03, 2016

Carl Sandburg: Life is...

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
/Carl Sandburg/

March 31, 2016

M.G. Sriram: Looking at...

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the Net, it looks like very soon everyone on Earth will have 15 megabytes of fame.
/M.G. Sriram/

March 30, 2016

Suzanne Vega: Sometimes I...

Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a civil place with certain formalities that people follow, but I don't see things that way. My own experience tells me that life is not like that.
/Suzanne Vega/

March 29, 2016

George A. Sheehan: Sport is...

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.
/George A. Sheehan/

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Home is...

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
/Harriet Beecher Stowe/

Margot Fonteyn: Great artists...

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
/Margot Fonteyn/

F. Paul Facult: Life is...

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.
/F. Paul Facult/

March 28, 2016

J. R. R. Tolkien: Many that...

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
/J. R. R. Tolkien/

March 27, 2016

Tobey Maguire: I've been...

I've been curious about certain things, but didn't let them get in the way of my life. I don't know how people becoem successful with some kind of habit.
/Tobey Maguire/

March 25, 2016

Ali Larter: When it...

When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.
/Ali Larter/

March 24, 2016

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: The most...

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
/Pierre Teilhard de Chardin/

William L. Jenkins: Throughout his...

Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.
/William L. Jenkins/

Dorothy Canfield Fisher: If we...

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
/Dorothy Canfield Fisher/

March 22, 2016

Andrew Jackson: I am...

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
/Andrew Jackson/

March 18, 2016

Barbara Dale: Think of...

Think of the life of the working woman as the decathlon. If you even finish it's a miracle.
/Barbara Dale/

Norman Thomas: The secret...

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
/Norman Thomas/

Winston Churchill: No hour...

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
/Winston Churchill/

March 17, 2016

Wendie Malick: I don't...

I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's interesting to talk about experiences in the context of something you're doing for somebody else, and particularly if you can persuade others to join you in your support.
/Wendie Malick/

David Kay: And like...

And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue.
/David Kay/

March 15, 2016

Samuel Johnson: Prudence keeps...

Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
/Samuel Johnson/

Nellie Mcclung: Women who...

Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.
/Nellie Mcclung/

March 13, 2016

Paracelsus: Life is...

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
/Paracelsus/

Robert Brault: Be it...

Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.
/Robert Brault/

March 12, 2016

Barack Obama: Focusing your...

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
/Barack Obama/

Lauryn Hill: We can't...

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
/Lauryn Hill/

March 11, 2016

Mark Twain: There was...

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy.
/Mark Twain/

March 08, 2016

Richard Le Gallienne: Wild oats...

Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.
/Richard Le Gallienne/

March 07, 2016

Jim Ramstad: I cannot...

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
/Jim Ramstad/

March 05, 2016

Rosabeth Moss Kanter: The boomers'...

The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.
/Rosabeth Moss Kanter/

March 03, 2016

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Boredom is...

Boredom is not an end product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.
/F. Scott Fitzgerald/

March 02, 2016

Philip G. Hamerton: There are...

There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.
/Philip G. Hamerton/

February 29, 2016

B. C. Forbes: Don't forget...

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.
/B. C. Forbes/

February 28, 2016

Thomas Henry Huxley: There is...

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
/Thomas Henry Huxley/

Maurice Sendak: There must...

There must be more to life than having everything!
/Maurice Sendak/

Stella Adler: Life beats...

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
/Stella Adler/

David Wood: College is...

College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?
/David Wood/

February 26, 2016

Arthur Capper: We spend...

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.
/Arthur Capper/

Karl Kraus: If the...

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
/Karl Kraus/

February 25, 2016

Angela Schwindt: While we...

While we try to teach our children all about life,<BR>Our children teach us what life is all about.
/Angela Schwindt/

Sarah Jessica Parker: When it...

When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?
/Sarah Jessica Parker/

February 24, 2016

Vanilla Ice: This was...

This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.
/Vanilla Ice/

February 22, 2016

Marcus Aurelius: Remember this-that...

Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
/Marcus Aurelius/

February 19, 2016

Mae West: It's not...

It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men.
/Mae West/

February 18, 2016

William Cullen Bryant: The right...

The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine and animadvert (speak out) upon all political institutions, is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact to their existence, that without it we must fall at once into depression or anarchy. To say that he who holds unpopular opinions must hold them at the peril of his life, and that, if he expresses them in public, he has only himself to blame if they who disagree with him should rise and put him to death, is to strike at all rights, all liberties, all protection of the laws, and to justify and extenuate all crimes.
/William Cullen Bryant/

Bo Jackson: I would...

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.
/Bo Jackson/

Martin H. Fischer: Paradoxical as...

Paradoxical as it sounds, many intellectuals prefer life in the mud to life in clear water.
/Martin H. Fischer/

February 15, 2016

Rita Mae Brown: I believe...

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
/Rita Mae Brown/

Karl Barth: Grace must...

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
/Karl Barth/

February 14, 2016

Thomas Sowell: Each day,...

Each day, as I take various pills, I realize that without those pills I might not be alive - and, if I were, life would not be worth living. Yet those who produce these medications are under constant attack from people who produce nothing.
/Thomas Sowell/

Daniel Berrigan: Sometime in...

Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.
/Daniel Berrigan/

February 13, 2016

Robert Brault: Happiness is...

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.
/Robert Brault/

February 11, 2016

Paul Eldridge: Reason is...

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.
/Paul Eldridge/

Catherine Zeta-Jones: I do...

I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen.
/Catherine Zeta-Jones/

February 08, 2016

John Templeton: I thought,...

I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?
/John Templeton/

February 06, 2016

Conan O`Brien: If life...

If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.
/Conan O`Brien/

Stevie Wonder: You can't...

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
/Stevie Wonder/

February 04, 2016

Winston Churchill: The only...

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
/Winston Churchill/

February 03, 2016

Roger Caras: Dogs are...

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
/Roger Caras/

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Freedom has...

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
/Dwight D. Eisenhower/

January 30, 2016

Friedrich Nietzsche: Every philosophy...

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.
/Friedrich Nietzsche/

Agatha Christie: I have...

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
/Agatha Christie/

January 27, 2016

Ralph Waldo Emerson: But real...

But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says,-Thus hast thou done, but it were better thus.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

January 26, 2016

Hippocrates: Life is...

Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.
/Hippocrates/

January 25, 2016

Jenny Agutter: I was...

I was really glad to meet Jane Clark because it did give me an insight. I couldn't imagine what kind of woman she was. I was hugely impressed by her energy, straightforward nature and enthusiasm for life.
/Jenny Agutter/

Oscar Wilde: To become...

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
/Oscar Wilde/

Herbert Spencer: Life is...

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
/Herbert Spencer/

January 23, 2016

Roberto Assagioli: Without forgiveness...

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
/Roberto Assagioli/

January 22, 2016

Bernhard Langer: There are...

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.
/Bernhard Langer/

January 21, 2016

Wallace Stegner: ...I was...

...I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows on a wall. If you examine a life, as Socrates has been so tediously advising us to do for so many centuries, do you really examine a life, or do you examine the shadows it casts on other lives? Entity or relationships? Objective reality or the vanishing point of a multiple perspective exercise? Prism or the rainbows it refracts? And what if you're the wall? What if you never cast a shadow or rainbow of your own, but have only caught those cast by others?
/Wallace Stegner/

Helen Keller: I have...

I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.
/Helen Keller/

Carl Bernstein: Increasingly, the...

Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies' real condition and a political and social discourse that we - the press, the media, the politician and the people - are turning into a sewer.
/Carl Bernstein/

January 20, 2016

Harrison Salisbury: Life within...

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
/Harrison Salisbury/

Herschel Walker: That person...

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.
/Herschel Walker/

January 18, 2016

Victor Hugo: It is...

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
/Victor Hugo/

January 16, 2016

Leo Buscaglia: Life lived...

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
/Leo Buscaglia/

January 15, 2016

Muhammad Ali: Joe Frazier...

Joe Frazier is so ugly, he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wildlife.
/Muhammad Ali/

January 14, 2016

Joseph Campbell: The goal...

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
/Joseph Campbell/

January 13, 2016

Rick Danko: Getting older,...

Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.
/Rick Danko/

Terry Josephson: No matter...

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
/Terry Josephson/

January 11, 2016

Gene Oliver: My past...

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
/Gene Oliver/

January 09, 2016

Mahatma Gandhi: The main...

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
/Mahatma Gandhi/

January 05, 2016

Ralph Waldo Trine: Love is...

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.
/Ralph Waldo Trine/

January 04, 2016

Jones Very: As long...

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.
/Jones Very/

January 02, 2016

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: As far...

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.
/Elisabeth Kubler-Ross/

David Keith: I'd really...

I'd really love to play a real-life country and western singer.
/David Keith/

January 01, 2016

Robert Anthony: If you...

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
/Robert Anthony/