Thomas Jefferson: The God...

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

Blythe Danner: Acting is...

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

Marguerite Yourcenar: A being...

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

Gustave Flaubert: Be regular...

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

Pierre Salinger: To outlive...

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

Frank Zappa: There is...

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

Arthur Ashe: You've got...

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

Bernard Malamud: Life is...

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

Oscar Wilde: A kiss...

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

Herman Wouk: Life was...

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

Lewis Grizzard: Life is...

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

Thich Nhat Hanh: Every day...

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

Alfred Tennyson: The happiness...

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

Lord Chesterfield: Physical ills...

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

Alexander Maclaren: Seek to...

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

Barbara Walters: And I...

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

Jean Ingelow: It is...

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

Sarah Zettel: Becoming a...

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

Richard Bach: Every person,...

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

Honore De Balzac: The habits...

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

David Foster Wallace: Molly Notkin...

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

Albert Schweitzer: Just as...

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

John Galsworthy: When Man...

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

Albert Greenfield: For me,...

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

Aidan Quinn: Life is...

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

Abu Bakr: Have an...

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

Markku Siivola: Astrology can...

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

Andre Maurois: The really...

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

Colin Powell: But you...

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

C. S. Lewis: Autumn is...

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

Vash Young: There is...

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

Ray Stannard Baker: Friendship is...

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

Diane Ackerman: I don't...

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

Napoleon Bonaparte: As for...

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

David Russell: The hardest...

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

Plato: Music is...

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