Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eckhart Tolle

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

Holbrook Jackson

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

Holly Black

And stupid. Brave and Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.

Hermann Hesse

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Hermann Hesse

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Hermann Hesse

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Hermann Hesse

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Hermann Hesse

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Hermann Hesse

So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.

Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.

Hermann Hesse

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Hermann Hesse

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

Hermann Hesse

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

Hermann Hesse

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

Hermann Hesse

This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best.

Henry Steele Commager

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

Henry Van Dyke

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

Henry Van Dyke

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Henry Van Dyke

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Time is the life of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.