Henry Ossawa Tanner: I believe...

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

William James: The great...

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Five miles...

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

Gaylord Nelson: We must...

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

Leif Garrett: Each song...

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

Josephine Baker: The things...

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

Greer Garson: Starting out...

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

Jim Fiebig: If life...

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

Eric Hoffer: Man staggers...

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

Michael Leboeuf: Waste your...

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

Edward Zwick: I look...

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

Henry Hampton: On the...

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

Gilda Radner: The goal...

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

Victor Hugo: Have courage...

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

Arthur Schopenhauer: Nothing in...

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

Denise Levertov: Very few...

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

Naguib Mahfouz: Without literature...

Without literature my life would be miserable.
/Naguib Mahfouz/

Immanuel Kant: May you...

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

Learned Hand: Life is...

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

John Burroughs: To find...

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

Nicholas Lore: It takes...

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

Andy Rooney: Happiness depends...

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

Maurice Jarre: Soon I...

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

William Feather: One way...

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