Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Cameron

Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.

Julia Cameron

You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)

Julia Cameron

The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.

Julia Cameron

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

Julia Cameron

... success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

Judith Guest

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

Joseph Joubert

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

Patanjali

The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.

P. L. Travers

And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit.

P. L. Travers

Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.

P. D. James

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

P. D. James

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

Ozzy Osbourne

Life's not all about money.

P. G. Wodehouse

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

P. G. Wodehouse

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.

P. G. Wodehouse

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

P. G. Wodehouse

A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.

P. G. Wodehouse

One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth,

Ovid

This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

Let love steal in disguised as friendship.

Ovid

If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

Ovid

Love is a credulous thing.

Ovid

Majesty and love do not well agree, nor do they live together.

Ovid

It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods.

Ovid

Love is a thing full of anxious fears.

Paul Nitze

I have been around at a time when important things needed to be done.

Paul Newman

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.

Paul Eldridge

We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.

Paul Bowles

Life is lived only once. And the less seriously the better.

Paul Bowles

Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.

Matthew Gray Gubler

If you're lucky enough to find a weird - never let them go.

Matthew Fox

Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.