Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Peter Matthiessen

Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr's The Windward Road.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.

Pope Benedict XVI

Anyone who knows he is loved is in turn prompted to love. It is the Lord himself, who loved us first, who asks us to place at the center of our lives love for him and for the people he has loved. It is especially adolescents and young people, who feel within them the pressing call to love, who need to be freed from the widespread prejudice that Christianity, with its commandments and prohibitions, sets too many obstacles in the path of the joy of love and, in particular prevents people from fully enjoying the happiness that men and women find in their love for one another.

Nathaniel Branden

Even when our life is most difficult, it is important to remember that something within us is keeping us alive- the life force-that lift us, energizes us, pulls us back sometimes from the abyss of despair. True spirituality does not exist without love of life.

Robert Crandall

I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees of American, 'This is not an appropriate investment. It's a great place to work and it's a great company that does important work. But airlines are not an investment.'

Richard P. Feynman

It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is

Richard Dawkins

The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened

Sarah Palin

Don't retreat. Instead - reload!

Sarah Caldwell

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Saoirse Ronan

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

Richard Rorty

The most important advance that the West has yet made is to develop a secularist moral tradition

Tracy Chevalier

It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.

Tori Amos

The most important thing to me as a songwriter is the breath. The most important thing I could say to somebody is, 'Sometimes I just breathe you in.'

Kay Redfield Jamison

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

Samuel Johnson

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

William Blake

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

Winston Churchill

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Rebecca Solnit

Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

Valerie Steele

You don't have to be a size 2 or have a wonderful little waist, which helps you get over the despair of shopping.

Og Mandino

Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.

Emile Zola

I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.

Emile M. Cioran

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.