Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Seuss

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky!

Zig Ziglar

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

William Wilberforce

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

William Wilberforce

Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.

Carl Jung

You never know what you have till you've lost it.

Carl Jung

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

Robert Cormier

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Rob Sheffield

Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.

Rob Reiner

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

Robin Williams

Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary.

W. H. Auden

An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.

Voltaire

I have wanted to kill myself a million times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

Emmanuelle Riva

I love life. I love life to death.

Bernie Siegel

It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.

Thom Yorke

And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps

Maria Semple

This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.

Ottessa Moshfegh

What's inspiring me the most [is] injustice. My own growth as a member of the human race, in terms of the veils being lifted, seeing more of the beauty and also the horror. A sense of my own purpose in this life. Love...

George MacDonald

A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Thou honour'st his obedience, he thy law. Into thy secret life-will he doth see; Thou fold'st him round in live love perfectly- One two, without beginning, without end; In love, life, strength, and truth, perfect without a flaw.

Troy Glaus

I'm still very critical of myself, but I've learned to deal with it. You know that every at-bat is important, but it's not life and death.

Sam Altman

Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed

Louis Pasteur

God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.

Emile M. Cioran

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

Paulo Coelho

Life is one long training session, in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning, there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.

Leo Tolstoy

Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

Sean Penn

That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.

Paul Theroux

Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.

Emma Goldman

How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.