Ralph Ransom: All life...

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
/Ralph Ransom/

Mitsugi Saotome: If you...

If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.
/Mitsugi Saotome/

Larry Brown: You have...

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.
/Larry Brown/

Sara Teasdale: There's nothing...

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.
/Sara Teasdale/

Wieder Marcia: Use your...

Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day.
/Wieder Marcia/

Arthur Rubinstein: Love life...

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
/Arthur Rubinstein/

Peter Ustinov: Books, I...

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
/Peter Ustinov/

Antonio Porchia: Following straight...

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
/Antonio Porchia/

Flannery O'Connor: To expect...

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
/Flannery O'Connor/

Allan K. Chalmers: Crises refine...

Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are.
/Allan K. Chalmers/

Derek Jacobi: They were...

They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed.
/Derek Jacobi/

Mignon McLaughlin: In life,...

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.
/Mignon McLaughlin/

Tina Yothers: I've been...

I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.
/Tina Yothers/

Robert Louis Stevenson: There is...

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
/Robert Louis Stevenson/

Rosa Luxemburg: Without general...

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.
/Rosa Luxemburg/