Famous Quotes & Sayings

Libba Bray

I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

Libba Bray

She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who’d botched things so badly. They’d sold their children a pack of lies: God and country. Love your parents. All is fair. And then they’d sent those boys, her brother, off to fight a great monster of a war that maimed and killed and destroyed whatever was inside them. Still they lied, expecting her to mouth the words and play along. Well, she wouldn’t. She knew now that the world was a long way from fair. She knew the monsters were real.

Libba Bray

Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Human life is beyond comprehension.

Friedrich Schiller

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

Friedrich Schiller

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

Friedrich Schiller

Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life.

Friedrich Schiller

We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.

Friedrich Schiller

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

Friedrich Schiller

Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe.

Friedrich Schiller

The May of life blooms once and never again.

Friedrich Schiller

O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!

Friedrich Schiller

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

Friedrich Schiller

His saying was: live and let live.

Friedrich Schiller

What is life without the radiance of love?

Friedrich Schiller

Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.

Friedrich Schiller

O tender yearning, sweet hoping! The golden time of first love! The eye sees the open heaven, The heart is intoxicated with bliss; O that the beautiful time of young love Could remain green forever.

Friedrich Schiller

The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

Friedrich Schiller

Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.

Friedrich Schiller

Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found the way.

Friedrich Schiller

O that it might remain eternally green, The beautiful time of youthful love.

Friedrich Schiller

I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved.

Friedrich Schiller

O God, how lovely still is life!

Friedrich Schiller

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

Frederick the Great

A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

George Foreman

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

You make problem, you have problem

Jon Kabat-Zinn

The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there can be no one place to be. There can be no one way to be, no one way to practice, no one way to learn, no one way to love, no one way to grow or to heal, no one way to live, no one way to feel, no one thing to know or be known. The particulars count.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.