William James: There is...

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

Abigail Adams: I begin...

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

Michael C. Hall: My mother...

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

Jim Ramstad: My fellow...

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

Henry David Thoreau: I have...

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

Mort Sahl: My life...

My life needs editing.
/Mort Sahl/

Barry Lopez: How is...

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

Simone Weil: Life does...

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

Ellen Glasgow: Nothing in...

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

Anais Nin: Life shrinks...

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

Neve Campbell: There are...

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

Cornelius Nepos: Hateful is...

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

Ahmad Jamal: The quickest...

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

Hall Caine: Out of...

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

Robert James Waller: Remember the...

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

Jay Leno: Give a...

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson: My chief...

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

Theodor W. Adorno: Wrong life...

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

Clay Aiken: I decided...

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

Martin Luther King: I refuse...

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

Marge Kennedy: The informality...

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

Henry Reed: As we...

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

Dwight L. Moody: Preparation for...

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

Henry David Thoreau: Don't be...

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

Ninette de Valois: Somebody must...

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

Langston Hughes: I have...

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: We run...

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

Robert Brault: In life's...

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

Thomas Alva Edison: I never...

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

Robert Williamson III: Poker's a...

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

Albert Schweitzer: But the...

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

Astrid Alauda: I've spent...

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

Kendall Hailey: The great...

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

Jean Paul: Gray hairs...

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

Jim Valvano: How do...

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

Marcus Valerius Martial: Life is...

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

Mary Garden: For a...

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

Henri Matisse: It has...

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