Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

William James

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

William James

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.

William James

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

William James

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

William James

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

William James

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

William James

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

William James

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

William James

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

William James

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

William Gilbert

A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that which the ancients considered to be a living soul in the sky, in the globes and in the stars, in the sun and in the moon.

William Gibson

We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

William Gibson

Things aren't different. Things are things.

Will Friedle

Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life.

Will Durant

Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.

Sarah Bernhardt

What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.

Sara Zarr

. . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.

Sarah Addison Allen

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

It is difficult to experience moments of happiness if we are not aware of what it is we genuinely love.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

When we appreciate how much we have, we feel the urge to pare down, get back to basics, and learn what is essential for our happiness. We long to realize what's really important.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

Samuel Rogers

A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.

William Feather

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

William Feather

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

William Ellery Channing

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

William Ellery Channing

Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.

Richard M. Nixon

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Richard M. Nixon

I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got.

Ric Flair

In my life, I've been a movie star, a rock star, and a sports star, all wrapped up into one-and worked harder at it than anybody else.

Rebecca Stead

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

Richard Selzer

Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God.