Greg Werner: Some men...

Some men throw their gifts away on a life of mediocrity, great men throw everything they have into their gifts and achieve a life of success.
/Greg Werner/

Otto Rank: Art is...

Art is life's dream interpretation.
/Otto Rank/

Edward Said: Until the...

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.
/Edward Said/

Richard O'Brien: Life's too...

Life's too short to be working with divas.
/Richard O'Brien/

Ann Landers: If I...

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would he this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
/Ann Landers/

Mary MacLane: When I...

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.
/Mary MacLane/

Brendan Gill: Not a...

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
/Brendan Gill/

Charles Vest: Looking ahead,...

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.
/Charles Vest/

Ellen Glasgow: The older...

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
/Ellen Glasgow/

Christopher Morley: The man...

The man who never in his life<BR>Has washed the dishes with his wife<BR>Or polished up the silver plate -<BR>He still is largely celibate.
/Christopher Morley/

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nothing is...

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

Paul Auster: I've dealt...

I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own. A twelve is very different from a thirteen, for example. Twelve is upright, conscientious, intelligent, whereas thirteen is a loner, a shady character who won't think twice about breaking the law to get what he wants. Eleven is tough, an outdoorsman who likes tramping through woods and scaling mountains; ten is rather simpleminded, a bland figure who always does what he's told; nine is deep and mystical, a Buddha of contemplation...
/Paul Auster/

Soren Kierkegaard: The commandment...

The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.
/Soren Kierkegaard/

Lou Holtz: Life is...

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
/Lou Holtz/

Epictetus: Neither should...

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
/Epictetus/

Charles Caleb Colton: There are...

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
/Charles Caleb Colton/

Abraham Lincoln: And in...

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
/Abraham Lincoln/

Sandra Day O'Connor: Despite the...

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.
/Sandra Day O'Connor/

Michael Ondaatje: The last...

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.
/Michael Ondaatje/

Lech Walesa: When I...

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
/Lech Walesa/

Simone De Beauvoir: Change your...

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
/Simone De Beauvoir/

Ada Cambridge: O what...

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
/Ada Cambridge/

George Sand: Faith is...

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
/George Sand/

Charles M. Crowe: Easter tells...

Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals.
/Charles M. Crowe/

Sigmund Freud: If the...

If the sole reason why you must not kill your neighbour is because God has forbidden it and will severely punish you for it in this or the next life - then, when you learn that there is no God and that you need not fear His punishment, you will certainly kill your neighbour without hesitation, and you can only be prevented from doing so by mundane force. Thus either these dangerous masses must be held down most severely and kept most carefully away from any chance of intellectual awakening, or else the relationship between civilization and religion must undergo a fundamental revision.
/Sigmund Freud/

Benjamin Disraeli: All of...

All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence.
/Benjamin Disraeli/

Martin H. Fischer: Life goes...

Life goes faster on protein.
/Martin H. Fischer/

Sandra Day O'Connor: We don't...

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.
/Sandra Day O'Connor/

John Dewey: Education is...

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
/John Dewey/

Dennis Rodman: Fifty percent...

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.
/Dennis Rodman/

Carl Sandburg: Time is...

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
/Carl Sandburg/

Felix Adler: The hero...

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
/Felix Adler/

Casey Stengel: There comes...

There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
/Casey Stengel/

Bertolt Brecht: Do not...

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
/Bertolt Brecht/

Anna Quindlen: The victim...

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.
/Anna Quindlen/

Erich Fromm: There is...

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
/Erich Fromm/

Greg Jurkiewicz: Life without...

Life without love is meaningless and goodness without love is impossible.
/Greg Jurkiewicz/

Vida D. Scudder: It is...

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
/Vida D. Scudder/

Russell Baker: Happiness is...

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
/Russell Baker/

Teri Garr: You can...

You can keep it to yourself, but you could also call a support team like the team at MS LifeLines. They are there to support the MS community and give good advice.
/Teri Garr/

Robert Brault: In this,...

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?
/Robert Brault/

Brett Favre: Because after...

Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.
/Brett Favre/

Hugh Dalton: During my...

During my first month in Italy I lived a nomadic life.
/Hugh Dalton/

José Ortega y Gasset: Our firmest...

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
/José Ortega y Gasset/

Chuck Palahniuk: You are...

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
/Chuck Palahniuk/

Henry James: Three things...

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
/Henry James/

Keith David: My whole...

My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor.
/Keith David/

Sam Neill: I've worked...

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
/Sam Neill/

Annie Dillard: We teach...

We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet's crust. As adults we are almost all adept at waking up. We have so mastered the transition we have forgotten we ever learned it. Yet it is a transition we make a hundred times a day, as, like so many will-less dolphins, we plunge and surface, lapse and emerge. We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall. Useless, I say. Valueless, I might add –until someone hauls their wealth up to the surface and into the wide-awake city, in a form people can use.
/Annie Dillard/

Marcus Aurelius: Nothing has...

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
/Marcus Aurelius/

Muammar al-Gaddafi: There must...

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.
/Muammar al-Gaddafi/

Neil LaBute: People think...

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.
/Neil LaBute/

Gaston Bachelard: To live...

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
/Gaston Bachelard/

G. K. Chesterton: The true...

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
/G. K. Chesterton/

Jeannette Walls: My life...

My life is not just about the past.
/Jeannette Walls/

Alan Watts: We could...

We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
/Alan Watts/

Farrah Gray: In life...

In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.
/Farrah Gray/

Alfred Korzybski: There are...

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
/Alfred Korzybski/

E. W. Howe: When men...

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
/E. W. Howe/

Ethel Watts Mumford: In the...

In the midst of life we are in debt.
/Ethel Watts Mumford/

Charles Darwin: A man...

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.
/Charles Darwin/

Gao Xingjian: In the...

In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
/Gao Xingjian/

Joseph Campbell: What each...

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
/Joseph Campbell/

Rene Magritte: If the...

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
/Rene Magritte/

Willie Aames: My wife...

My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me.
/Willie Aames/

Eugene O'Neill: For a...

For a moment I lost myself, actually lost my life. I was set free! I belonged, without past or future, within peace and unity and a wild joy, within something greater than my own life ... to life itself. I caught a glimpse of something greater than myself.
/Eugene O'Neill/

Richard Le Gallienne: Perhaps we...

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.
/Richard Le Gallienne/

Charles Lamb: My theory...

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
/Charles Lamb/

Paul Theroux: The writer...

The writer is odd from day one and in the course of pursuing this maddening profession becomes distinctly odder... It is not unusual for a successful writer - your favorite, the one you think of as full of sunshine, wisdom and laughter - to spend great portions of his or her life in a state of fury, hideously disappointed, or even raving mad... for a writer it is almost essential to pursue a solitary passion in the open air.
/Paul Theroux/

Winston Churchill: You make...

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.
/Winston Churchill/

Bertolt Brecht: What a...

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
/Bertolt Brecht/

Albert Einstein: Life is...

Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.
/Albert Einstein/

Marcel Proust: In theory...

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.
/Marcel Proust/

P. L. Debevoise: Life begins...

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.
/P. L. Debevoise/

James Allen: Where faith...

Where faith is there is courage, there is fortitude, there is steadfastness and strength... Faith bestows that sublime courage that rises superior to the troubles and disappointments of life, that acknowledges no defeat except as a step to victory; that is strong to endure, patient to wait, and energetic to struggle... Light up, then, the lamp of faith in your heart... It will lead you safely through the mists of doubt and the black darkness of despair; along the narrow, thorny ways of sickness and sorrow, and over the treacherous places of temptation and uncertainty.
/James Allen/

Astrid Alauda: Reality is...

Reality is too much to take in heapfuls, but sprinkle it sparingly upon life's path and most can tread it lightly.
/Astrid Alauda/

Marvin Olasky: Fifteen years...

Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.
/Marvin Olasky/

Walter Salles: My father...

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
/Walter Salles/

Lemony Snicket: It is...

It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.
/Lemony Snicket/

Bette Davis: Wave after...

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
/Bette Davis/

Soren Kierkegaard: During the...

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.
/Soren Kierkegaard/

B. Zander: In the...

In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.
/B. Zander/

Ross Presser: Life's a...

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.
/Ross Presser/

Salma Hayek: Life is...

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
/Salma Hayek/

Richard M. Daley: They knew...

They knew that Roosevelt and the Democratic party made a difference on them, on their quality of life issues, and they believed in that. But today it is completely different.
/Richard M. Daley/

Vaclav Havel: Sometimes I...

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
/Vaclav Havel/

William Arthur Ward: A well-developed...

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your step as you walk the tightrope of life.
/William Arthur Ward/

Helen Rowland: The follies...

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
/Helen Rowland/

Lauren Bacall: Looking at...

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
/Lauren Bacall/

L. E. Blaze: The true...

The true greatness of a nation is not measured by the vastness of its territory, or by the multitude of its people, or by the profusion of its exports and imports; but by the extent to which it has contributed to the life and thought and progress of the world. A man's greatness is not estimated by the size of his body or of his purse; not by his family connections or social position, however high these may be. He may bulk large in public estimation today, but tomorrow he will be forgotten like a dream, and his very servants may secure a higher position and a name lasting possibly a little longer.<br>So with nations. A great nation is not one which, like Russia, has an enormous territory ; or, like China, has an enormous population. It is the nation which gives mankind new modes of thought, new ideals of life, new hopes, new aspirations; which lifts the world out of the rut, and sets it going on a cleaner and brighter road.
/L. E. Blaze/

Mahatma Gandhi: There is...

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
/Mahatma Gandhi/

Henri-Frédéric Amiel: Every life...

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
/Henri-Frédéric Amiel/

Henry David Thoreau: The true...

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
/Henry David Thoreau/

H. Jackson Brown: If your...

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.
/H. Jackson Brown/

A. W. Hare: Half the...

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
/A. W. Hare/

Albert Einstein: I have...

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
/Albert Einstein/

Albert Schweitzer: In everyone's...

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
/Albert Schweitzer/

Benjamin Franklin: Do not...

Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
/Benjamin Franklin/

James Nasmyth: From a...

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.
/James Nasmyth/

Denis Waitley: Never become...

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
/Denis Waitley/

Eckhart Tolle: All inner...

All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words are almost synonymous.<br>Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done-by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.
/Eckhart Tolle/

Albert Camus: You will...

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
/Albert Camus/

Friedrich A. Hayek: Once you...

Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of a higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarian regimes which horrify us follow of necessity. From the collectivist standpoint, intolerance and brutal suppression of dissent, the complete disregard of the life and happiness of the individual, are essential and unavoidable consequences of this basic premise; and the collectivist can admit this and at the same time claim that his system is superior to one in which the 'selfish' interests of the individual are allowed to obstruct the full realization of the ends the community pursues.
/Friedrich A. Hayek/

Bob Keeshan: It requires...

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.
/Bob Keeshan/

Richard Dawkins: After sleeping...

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked - as I am surprisingly often - why I bother to get up in the mornings.
/Richard Dawkins/

James D. Bryden: Love does...

Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life's hazards, save one - neglect.
/James D. Bryden/

Franz Kafka: The fact...

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
/Franz Kafka/

John Ryman: You know...

You know what life really is? You're born, you suck your mother's tits. You get a little older, you suck your girlfriend's tits. You get married, you suck your wife's tits. That's what life is. Life sucks.
/John Ryman/

Victor Hugo: This convict,...

This convict, this desperate man, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has had me beneath his feet, and could have avenged himself, and who ought to have done so, as well as for his revenge as for his security, in granting me life, in sparing me, what has he done? His duty? No. Something more. And I, in sparing him in my turn, what have I done? My duty? No. Something more. There is then something more than duty.
/Victor Hugo/

Sebastian Bach: They have...

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.
/Sebastian Bach/

Martin Buber: There are...

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
/Martin Buber/

Les Brown: Your goals...

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
/Les Brown/

Henry L. Stimson: The chief...

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
/Henry L. Stimson/

Doug Horton: We are...

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
/Doug Horton/

Colin Wilson: It is...

It is true that there are exercises that can strengthen the 'muscle' that enable us to push back the bounds of acceptation. But these are relatively unimportant. The real problem is that we are trapped in misconceptions that always deceive us, as the matador's cape deceives the bull; that continue to deceive us a million times over the course of a lifetime. Wittgenstein once said that traditional philosophy causes a form of mental cramp, and that the aim of his philosophy was to remove this mental cramp, or to 'show the fly the way out of the bottle'. Our misconceptions involve the passive fallacy and notion that consciousness is a plane mirror that cannot lie about the world it reflects.
/Colin Wilson/

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Sleep lingers...

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

Knut Hamsun: Heaven knows...

Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!
/Knut Hamsun/

Earl R. Beck: No one...

No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time.
/Earl R. Beck/

Albert Schweitzer: There are...

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
/Albert Schweitzer/

George Sewell: When the...

When the adulation of life is gone, the coward sneaks to his death, but the brave live on.
/George Sewell/

Henry Van Dyke: No amount...

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.
/Henry Van Dyke/

Molly Ivins: Although a...

Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked.
/Molly Ivins/

J. P. Mcevoy: Life is...

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.
/J. P. Mcevoy/

Blaise Pascal: Most of...

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
/Blaise Pascal/

Mahatma Gandhi: My life...

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
/Mahatma Gandhi/

Joseph Campbell: It seems...

It seems to have had an order, to have been composed by someone, and those events that were merely accidental when they happened turn out to be the main elements in a consistent plot. Who composed this plot? Just as your dreams are composed, so your whole life has been composed by the will within you. Just as the people who you met by chance became effective agents in the structuring of your life, so you have been the agent in the structuring of other lives. And the whole thing gears together like one big symphony, everything influencing and structuring everything else. It's as though our lives were the dream of a single dreamer in which all of the dream characters are dreaming too. And so everything links to everything else moved out of the will in nature...It is as though there were an intention behind it yet it is all by chance. None of us lives the life that he had intended.
/Joseph Campbell/

Emily Dickinson: That it...

That it will never come again<BR>Is what makes life so sweet.
/Emily Dickinson/

Martin Luther: Christian life...

Christian life consists of faith and charity.
/Martin Luther/

Leon Kass: The technical...

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
/Leon Kass/

Lucille Ball: One of...

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
/Lucille Ball/

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: Life finds...

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
/Maharishi Mahesh Yogi/

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: We lay...

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.
/Johann Wolfgang von Goethe/

Georges Rouault: Painting is...

Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
/Georges Rouault/

Bill Gates: I actually...

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
/Bill Gates/

Lydia Maria Child: The cure...

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
/Lydia Maria Child/

John Kenneth Galbraith: In all...

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
/John Kenneth Galbraith/

Lynn Davies: It's about...

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.
/Lynn Davies/

Toni Morrison: Birth, life,...

Birth, life, and death - each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
/Toni Morrison/

Mahatma Gandhi: Freedom is...

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
/Mahatma Gandhi/

Andrew Jackson: I feel...

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.
/Andrew Jackson/

Clive James: A life...

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
/Clive James/

Virginia Hamilton: The meaning...

The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.
/Virginia Hamilton/

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nor knowest...

Nor knowest thou what argument<br>Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.<br>All are needed by each one;<br>Nothing is fair or good alone.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

Charles F. Kettering: My interest...

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
/Charles F. Kettering/

May Sarton: A garden...

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
/May Sarton/

Millard Fuller: It's not...

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.
/Millard Fuller/

Jim Bouton: You spend...

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
/Jim Bouton/

George Takei: I spent...

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
/George Takei/

Logan P. Smith: People say...

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
/Logan P. Smith/

Oscar Wilde: It is...

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.
/Oscar Wilde/

S. D. Gordon: Easter spells...

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
/S. D. Gordon/

Howard Nordberg: Life is...

Life is a cement trampoline.
/Howard Nordberg/

Robert Frost: A person...

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
/Robert Frost/

Rudolph Valentino: A man...

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.
/Rudolph Valentino/

Robert Brault: To the...

To the student I would say, Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question.
/Robert Brault/

Victor Hugo: Each man...

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
/Victor Hugo/

Robert Wilson Lynd: There are...

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
/Robert Wilson Lynd/

Medgar Evers: Feedom has...

Feedom has never been free ... I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.
/Medgar Evers/

George Bernard Shaw: A life...

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
/George Bernard Shaw/

René Francois Regnier: Gaily I...

Gaily I lived as ease and nature taught,<BR>And spent my little life without a thought,<BR>And am amazed that Death, that tyrant grim,<BR>Should think of me, who never thought of him.
/René Francois Regnier/

Henry David Thoreau: How many...

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
/Henry David Thoreau/

Jhonen Vasquez: I don't...

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.
/Jhonen Vasquez/

William Hale White: When I...

When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.
/William Hale White/

Brooks Adams: One friend...

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
/Brooks Adams/

Martin Yan: I live...

I live a very low-key life.
/Martin Yan/

George Washington: My Mother...

My Mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my Mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
/George Washington/

Sarah Ban Breathnach: An authentic...

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
/Sarah Ban Breathnach/

Friedrich Nietzsche: Without music...

Without music life would be a mistake.
/Friedrich Nietzsche/

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Death is...

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
/Percy Bysshe Shelley/

Cheryl Ladd: Two things...

Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple.
/Cheryl Ladd/

Thomas Browne: Men that...

Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.
/Thomas Browne/

Thomas Henry Huxley: It does...

It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance–that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are. You learn to put your trust, by and by, in an economy and frugality of the exercise of your powers, both moral and intellectual; and you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. In fact, if I were to go on discoursing on this subject, I should become almost eloquent in praise of non-success;...
/Thomas Henry Huxley/

Wayne Dyer: Life is...

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.
/Wayne Dyer/

Siobhan Fahey: Life is...

Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.
/Siobhan Fahey/

Lascelles Abercrombie: Epic poetry...

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
/Lascelles Abercrombie/

Jean Baptiste Legouve: If he...

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.
/Jean Baptiste Legouve/

Eli Stanley Jones: Fear is...

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.
/Eli Stanley Jones/

Frank James: I was...

I was tired of an outlaw's life.
/Frank James/

Charles Olson: There is...

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
/Charles Olson/

Anna Julia Cooper: The old,...

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
/Anna Julia Cooper/

Margaret Mahy: There are...

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and live with the characters.
/Margaret Mahy/

Steve Nash: I have...

I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.
/Steve Nash/

Dan Quayle: If you...

If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.
/Dan Quayle/

George Eads: I think...

I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.
/George Eads/

Bianca Jagger: During the...

During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.
/Bianca Jagger/

Robert Brault: Life is...

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.
/Robert Brault/

Patrick Kavanaugh: It is...

It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities-life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
/Patrick Kavanaugh/

William Shakespeare: To die,...

To die, to sleep --<br>To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub,<br>For in that sleep of death what dreams may come<br>When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,<br>Must give us pause; there's the respect<br>That makes calamity of so long life.
/William Shakespeare/

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The only...

The only prudence in life is concentration.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

Stephen MacKenna: To have...

To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.
/Stephen MacKenna/

Albert Schweitzer: Let me...

Let me give you one definition of ethics: It is good to maintain life and to further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound, universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.
/Albert Schweitzer/

George Gordon Byron: Life's enchanted...

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
/George Gordon Byron/

Peter Julian Eymard: Do you...

Do you wish to learn the secret of true Eucharistic prayer? Consider, then, all the mysteries in the light of the Blessed Sacrament. It is a divine prism through which they can all be studied. The Holy Eucharist is, indeed, 'Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today, and the same forever' (Heb 13:8). In this Sacrament He glorifies all the mysteries of His life and prolongs, as it were, the exercise of all His virtues. The Eucharist is, in a word, the great Mystery of our faith to which all Catholic truths lead.
/Peter Julian Eymard/

Elbert Hubbard: The mintage...

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.
/Elbert Hubbard/

James MacArthur: If the...

If the woman in my life, the one that I felt I loved enough to want to marry, loved my children, I'd know then that her love for me was deeper than I could hope for.
/James MacArthur/

Daniel D. Palmer: The spiritual...

The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
/Daniel D. Palmer/

Friedrich Schiller: The lamp...

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
/Friedrich Schiller/

Robert Benchley: I am...

I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.
/Robert Benchley/

Nido Qubein: Nothing can...

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
/Nido Qubein/

Jack Youngblood: Football has...

Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.
/Jack Youngblood/

Frances Willard: I would...

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
/Frances Willard/

Ever Garrison: Adversity enhances...

Adversity enhances this tale we call life.
/Ever Garrison/

Issey Miyake: Design is...

Design is not for philosophy - it's for life.
/Issey Miyake/

Terry Waite: The terrible...

The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
/Terry Waite/

Jamelia: Life is...

Life is too short not to experiment.
/Jamelia/

Peter Jacobsen: One of...

One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot - the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something.
/Peter Jacobsen/

Horace Mann: Generosity during...

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
/Horace Mann/

Robert G. Ingersoll: Life is...

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud-and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word.
/Robert G. Ingersoll/

Osho: Nature has...

Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow. More than this nature cannot do. It has done enough. It has given you life, it has given you opportunity; now how to use it, it has left up to you.<br>…meditation is almost like dreamless sleep, but with only one difference. In dreamless sleep you are not aware; in samadhi, in the ultimate state of meditation, there is just a little difference – you are aware.
/Osho/

Pat Conroy: Without music,...

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
/Pat Conroy/

Edward Abbey: Mexico: where...

Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
/Edward Abbey/

Katherine Mansfield: Make it...

Make it a rule in life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing in.
/Katherine Mansfield/

Carl Sagan: Personally, I...

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
/Carl Sagan/

Robert A. Heinlein: The supreme...

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
/Robert A. Heinlein/

Bill Vaughan: In the...

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
/Bill Vaughan/

Ava Gardner: I suffered,...

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.
/Ava Gardner/

Henry Ward Beecher: Mirth is...

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
/Henry Ward Beecher/

Henry David Thoreau: If the...

If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal - that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.
/Henry David Thoreau/

Linda Vester: I think...

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.
/Linda Vester/

Thornton Wilder: I can't....

I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. So all that was going on and we never noticed. Take me back - up the hill - to my grave. But first: Wait! One more look. Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by Grover's Corners...Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking...and Mama's sunflowers. And fod and coffee. And new ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. ...Do human beings ever realize life while they live it? - Every, every minute? ...I'm ready to go back...I should have listened to you. That's all human beings are! Just blind people. -Emily Webb
/Thornton Wilder/

Emma Goldman: Since every...

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
/Emma Goldman/

Rodney Dangerfield: I'm at...

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
/Rodney Dangerfield/

Edith Hamilton: It has...

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is to be educated.
/Edith Hamilton/

Lucius Accius: A man...

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
/Lucius Accius/

Al Gallagher: There are...

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
/Al Gallagher/

Antoine Rivarol: Man spends...

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
/Antoine Rivarol/

C. L. R. James: The antagonisms...

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
/C. L. R. James/

Gunther Grass: Art is...

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
/Gunther Grass/

Boris Pasternak: I don't...

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
/Boris Pasternak/

Nelson Algren: Never play...

Never play cards with any man named Doc.<br>Never eat at any place called Mom's.<br>And never, never, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.
/Nelson Algren/

Jack Vance: I never...

I never worked in an office in my life.
/Jack Vance/

Abraham Lincoln: All my...

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
/Abraham Lincoln/

Mark Twain: The exercise...

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.
/Mark Twain/

Robert Brault: Sometimes it's...

Sometimes it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams - assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.
/Robert Brault/

Jean Paul: Every man...

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
/Jean Paul/

Michael Landon: Life has...

Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.
/Michael Landon/

Friedrich Nietzsche: If you...

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.
/Friedrich Nietzsche/

Jean-Paul Sartre: The poor...

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
/Jean-Paul Sartre/

Knut Hamsun: It is...

It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?
/Knut Hamsun/

Tom G. Palmer: Most Europeans...

Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America.
/Tom G. Palmer/

Silas Weir Mitchell: It's easier...

It's easier traveling the road of life when I don't have so much to carry on my back.
/Silas Weir Mitchell/

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Every man...

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
/Jean-Jacques Rousseau/

Isak Dinesen: Difficult times...

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever...
/Isak Dinesen/

Alan Ladd: I'm shy...

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.
/Alan Ladd/

Jim Stephens: Be thankful....

Be thankful. Cultivate an attitude of gratitude. Thankfulness is much more dependent on attitude than circumstance. When you feel the lack of what you don't have, thank God for what you do have! At any time, there is more going right in the life of a committed Christian than there is going wrong. It's just that the wrong makes a lot more noise than the right.
/Jim Stephens/

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Gentleman...look around...

Gentleman...look around you at the gifts of God, the clear sky, the pure air, the tender grass, the birds; nature is beautiful and sinless, and we, only we, are godless and foolish, and we don't understand that life is a paradise, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.
/Fyodor Dostoyevsky/

Jackson Pollock: The painting...

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
/Jackson Pollock/

Kenneth Hare: The puritan...

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.
/Kenneth Hare/

David Thomas: If there...

If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
/David Thomas/

John Barth: Everyone is...

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
/John Barth/

Blaise Pascal: Between us...

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
/Blaise Pascal/

Muhammad Iqbal: Rise above...

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
/Muhammad Iqbal/

P. J. O'Rourke: A hat...

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
/P. J. O'Rourke/

Jay Leno: Bush reiterated...

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
/Jay Leno/

Lin Yutang: I like...

I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colours are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.
/Lin Yutang/

Scott Ian: Music and...

Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.
/Scott Ian/

David Hume: On the...

On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher faculties either of mind or body. This circumstance vanishes and becomes absolutely insignificant, on the religious theory: The one sex has an equal task to perform as the other: Their powers of reason and resolution ought also to have been equal, and both of them infinitely greater than at present.
/David Hume/

Thomas Jefferson: I never...

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.
/Thomas Jefferson/

Walt Disney: I always...

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
/Walt Disney/

Anna Quindlen: There is...

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.
/Anna Quindlen/

Fred Savage: I would...

I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.
/Fred Savage/

Oprah Winfrey: The big...

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.
/Oprah Winfrey/

Dag Hammarskjöld: There is...

There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
/Dag Hammarskjöld/

Janos Kadar: I ask...

I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.
/Janos Kadar/

Taylor Caldwell: Learning should...

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
/Taylor Caldwell/

Lev Tolstoy: Art is...

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling. In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man-we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.The task of art is enormous. Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion, that peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means-by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspection, etc.-should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity. Art should cause violence to be set aside. And it is only art that can accomplish this.
/Lev Tolstoy/

Frederic William Farrar: But in...

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.
/Frederic William Farrar/

Charlton Heston: You can...

You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
/Charlton Heston/

George Eliot: The golden...

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
/George Eliot/

Francis Bacon: Choose the...

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
/Francis Bacon/

J. Andrew Helt: When life...

When life gives you lemons, please, just don't squirt them in other people's eyes.
/J. Andrew Helt/

Bertrand Russell: To fear...

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
/Bertrand Russell/

George Washington Carver: How far...

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
/George Washington Carver/

James F. Byrnes: Too many...

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
/James F. Byrnes/

Henry Ward Beecher: Love is...

Love is the river of life in the world.
/Henry Ward Beecher/

Jenna Elfman: I just...

I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!
/Jenna Elfman/

Mahatma Gandhi: In the...

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
/Mahatma Gandhi/

Wendy Kaminer: I don't...

I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question. It's unanswerable and irrelevant to my life, so I put it in the category of things I can't worry about.
/Wendy Kaminer/

Danny Mcgoorty: One of...

One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.
/Danny Mcgoorty/

Richard Bach: I gave...

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
/Richard Bach/

Pierce Vincent Eckhart: When I...

When I was a Boy Scout, we played a game when new Scouts joined the troop. We lined up chairs in a pattern, creating an obstacle course through which the new Scouts, blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver. The Scoutmaster gave them a few moments to study the pattern before our adventure began. But as soon as the victims were blindfolded, the rest of us quietly removed the chairs. I think life is like this game. Perhaps we spend our lives avoiding obstacles we have created for ourselves and in reality exist only in our minds. We're afraid to apply for that job, take violin lessons, learn a foreign language, call an old friend, write our Congressman - whatever it is that we would really like to do but don't because of personal obstacles. Don't avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. And if you do, at least you'll have a place to sit down.
/Pierce Vincent Eckhart/

Rabindranath Tagore: The highest...

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
/Rabindranath Tagore/

Richard Ford: Married life...

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
/Richard Ford/

Samuel Johnson: Catch, then,...

Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour;<BR>Improve each moment as it flies!<BR>Life's a short summer, man a flower;<BR>He dies - alas! how soon he dies!
/Samuel Johnson/

Dick York: I never...

I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.
/Dick York/

Cyril Connolly: We create...

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life; it is because we tire of our responsibility.
/Cyril Connolly/

C. S. Lewis: Life is...

Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.
/C. S. Lewis/

Samuel Butler: Is life...

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
/Samuel Butler/

Oscar Wilde: In a...

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
/Oscar Wilde/

Robert Louis Stevenson: A great...

A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
/Robert Louis Stevenson/

Pearl Bailey: There's a...

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
/Pearl Bailey/

Robert Brault: Shall I...

Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some sideroad might be some trifle I'm entitled to?
/Robert Brault/

George Wald: There's life...

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.
/George Wald/

Warren Zevon: I missed...

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.
/Warren Zevon/

John F. Kennedy: The courage...

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
/John F. Kennedy/

Georges Carpentier: Life is...

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.
/Georges Carpentier/

Christopher Lasch: The left...

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
/Christopher Lasch/

Henry Rollins: When life...

When life hands you a lemon, say Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else you got?
/Henry Rollins/

C. G. Jung: There are...

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. 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.
/C. G. Jung/

Anna Quindlen: I realized...

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
/Anna Quindlen/

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Life was...

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.
/F. Scott Fitzgerald/

Albert Schweitzer: The highest...

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.
/Albert Schweitzer/

Seneca: Precepts or...

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
/Seneca/

George Bernard Shaw: You are...

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
/George Bernard Shaw/

Pamela Anderson: What I...

What I know in life runs the gamut of the feminist experience. The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
/Pamela Anderson/

Viktor E. Frankl: Challenging the...

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
/Viktor E. Frankl/

Jerry Garcia: I'm not...

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.
/Jerry Garcia/

Earl Warren: Everything I...

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.
/Earl Warren/

M. Scott Peck: There can...

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
/M. Scott Peck/

Alfred Hitchcock: A lot...

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
/Alfred Hitchcock/

Alice Foote MacDougall: Poverty is...

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.
/Alice Foote MacDougall/

Thorstein Veblen: In itself...

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
/Thorstein Veblen/

Henry David Thoreau: Do not...

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
/Henry David Thoreau/

Mignon McLaughlin: Surrounded by...

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.
/Mignon McLaughlin/

Christine Keeler: Even a...

Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.
/Christine Keeler/

Philip Adams: When people...

When people say to me: How do you do so many things? I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel: How do you do so little? 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/

William R. Alger: The line...

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
/William R. Alger/

Robert James Waller: Life is...

Life is never easy for those who dream.
/Robert James Waller/

Bob Dylan: For them...

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
/Bob Dylan/

Bill Gates: Intellectual property...

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
/Bill Gates/

Tobey Maguire: If I'm...

If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I feel very much a part of things most of the time and feel very comfortable socializing and have for most of my life.
/Tobey Maguire/

Thomas Browne: Though it...

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
/Thomas Browne/

Paul Newman: We are...

We are such spendthrifts with our lives. The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I'm not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.
/Paul Newman/

Wendie Malick: I feel...

I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little it takes for you to actually change their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something.
/Wendie Malick/

Christopher Morley: Life is...

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
/Christopher Morley/

Ellen Sturgis Hooper: I slept,...

I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.
/Ellen Sturgis Hooper/

Dakota Fanning: My mom,...

My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
/Dakota Fanning/

Eknath Easwaran: It takes...

It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
/Eknath Easwaran/

Corin Nemec: Never let...

Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.
/Corin Nemec/

Norman Vincent Peale: Part of...

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
/Norman Vincent Peale/

Ella Maillart: One travels...

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.
/Ella Maillart/

Rob Walton: My wife...

My wife is wonderful. She's one of the people who has changed my life around... or has allowed ME to change my life around.
/Rob Walton/

Steve Largent: Life is...

Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.
/Steve Largent/

Henry David Thoreau: Live your...

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
/Henry David Thoreau/

Steven Coallier: Attack life,...

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.
/Steven Coallier/

Marcus Aurelius: When thou...

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
/Marcus Aurelius/

Mark Haddon: Every life...

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.
/Mark Haddon/

Thomas Wolfe: At that...

At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works and lives and has his being--the reward he seeks--the only reward he really cares about, without which there is nothing. It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets of magic, to make his life prevail through his creation, to wreak the vision of his life, the rude and painful substance of his own experience, into the congruence of blazing and enchanted images that are themselves the core of life, the essential pattern whence all other things proceed, the kernel of eternity.
/Thomas Wolfe/

Ralph Levy: We have...

We have focused on the miracle-thing and I think we often overlook the message of Hanukkah. To me, the core of the holiday is the cleaning of the temple... The accomplishment was in restoring the temple to the purpose for which it was built. Now think of the temple as a symbol. Perhaps it represents my life. The world has tried to use me for its own (perhaps good, but none-the-less extrinsic) purposes. But now I can rededicate myself to my own original purpose.
/Ralph Levy/

Susan B. Anthony: Sooner or...

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
/Susan B. Anthony/

Archibald MacLeish: It is...

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
/Archibald MacLeish/

Joseph Conrad: Only in...

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
/Joseph Conrad/

Rabindranath Tagore: The singer...

The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.
/Rabindranath Tagore/

George Bernard Shaw: Life is...

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.
/George Bernard Shaw/

Henry Reed: We each...

We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas.
/Henry Reed/

Joni Mitchell: I've looked...

I've looked at life from both sides now<br>From win and lose and still somehow<br>It's life's illusions I recall<br>I really don't know life at all.
/Joni Mitchell/

Jessica Hahn: I kind...

I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment.
/Jessica Hahn/

Jena Malone: There is...

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.
/Jena Malone/

Scott Sorrell: Breathe deeply,...

Breathe deeply, as if each breath might be your last. That way, the one time you're right, you'll have a couple of extra seconds to contemplate life's beauty while you exhale.
/Scott Sorrell/

Rob Walton: Jesus gives...

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.
/Rob Walton/

Albert Camus: But what...

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
/Albert Camus/

George Santayana: A string...

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
/George Santayana/

B. K. S. Iyengar: Yoga, an...

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization. Yoga means union - the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.
/B. K. S. Iyengar/

Midge Ure: You think...

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.
/Midge Ure/

Alexander Haig: The world...

The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.
/Alexander Haig/

Sarah Bernhardt: Life begets...

Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
/Sarah Bernhardt/

James Baldwin: Life is...

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
/James Baldwin/

Carl Sandburg: Every blunder...

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
/Carl Sandburg/

William Cowper: A life...

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
/William Cowper/

Marquis de Sade: Lust is...

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
/Marquis de Sade/