Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Van Gogh

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

Vincent Van Gogh

If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, thatit is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done.

Wayne Dyer

Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.

Wayne Dyer

One individual who lives and vibrates to the energy of pure love and reverence for all of life will counterbalance the negativity of 750,000 individuals who calibrate at the lower weakening levels.

Wayne Dyer

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Wayne Dyer

"Life Diamond". . . Job. Family. Society. Sense of Self...

Wayne Dyer

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Wayne Dyer

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

Wayne Dyer

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Wayne Dyer

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Wayne Dyer

Peace can be a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job.

Wayne Dyer

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out - because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Wayne Dyer

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

Wayne Dyer

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Wayne Dyer

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Wayne Dyer

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Walter de La Mare

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

Walter Bagehot

Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' - who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such.

Walter Bagehot

Life is a school of probability.

Walter Bagehot

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

Walter Bagehot

The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

Walter Bagehot

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

Walter Benjamin

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Walter Benjamin

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Walter Benjamin

Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.

Virginia Woolf

How remorseless life is!

Virginia Woolf

Life's bare as a bone.

Virginia Woolf

So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.

Virginia Woolf

Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.

Virginia Woolf

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Virginia Woolf

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Virginia Woolf

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

Virginia Woolf

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.