Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther King, Jr.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Mark Webber

Life is a cycle of ends and starts.

Mark Victor Hansen

Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea of who we are creates who we become - the great news is you can change your self-impressions and change your life.

Mark Allen

What we think about, expands.

Miguel de Unamuno

My religion is searching for the truth in life and life in the truth, though knowing that I do not have to find it while I live; my religion is fighting incessantly and tirelessly with the unknown.

Miguel de Unamuno

Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

Miguel de Unamuno

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Miguel de Unamuno

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Nicholas Breton

Much ado there was, God wot; He woold love, and she woold not, She sayd, "Never man was trewe;" He sayes, "None was false to you."

Ned Vizzini

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.

Ned Vizzini

I'm going to be here until I'm cured?" "Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed".

Naomi Judd

If you know anything about me, you know that my life's taken a few unexpected curves and crashes along the way. But hey, at least I can say I took the scenic route!

Nadia Boulanger

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

Miyamoto Musashi

In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased.

Miyamoto Musashi

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi

Do nothing which is of no use.

Miyamoto Musashi

There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

Miriam Toews

Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing.

Mike Phillips

I just recently became aware of how tenuous my life is. I don't have time for fear.

R. D. Laing

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

R. D. Laing

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

R. Buckminster Fuller

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.

Princess Diana

Life is just a journey.