Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neale Donald Walsch

It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress. The only one who doesn't struggle is the one who doesn't grow. So if you are struggling right now, see it as a terrific sign - celebrate your struggle.

Nancy Thayer

You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.

Nancy Werlin

But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.

Morgan Freeman

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

A testimony of the truth of the gospel does not come the same way to all people. Some receive it in a unique, life-changing experience. Others gain a testimony slowly, almost imperceptibly until, one day, they simply know.

Joseph Addison

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Joseph Addison

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Joseph Addison

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Jose Marti

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is fired at us point blank.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.

Jose Bergamin

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

Jorge Luis Borges

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Jorge Luis Borges

The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.

Jorge Luis Borges

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Jorge Luis Borges

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

Joni Mitchell

But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.

Joni Mitchell

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

Jonathan Tropper

You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.

Kevin Smith

Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.

Kevin Brooks

Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.

Kevin Brooks

It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.

Kevin Brockmeier

Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew she would be reduced to if she didn’t keep a hard eye on herself.

Kurt Cobain

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.