Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pearl S. Buck

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

Peace Pilgrim

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Peace Pilgrim

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.

Philip Green

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

Peter Straub

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

Peter Ustinov

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Terry Tempest Williams

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

Terry Pratchett

I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.

Terry Pratchett

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

Terry Pratchett

I would like to die peacefully with Thomas Tallis on my iPod before the disease takes me over and I hope that will not be for quite some time to come, because if I knew that I could die at any time I wanted, then suddenly every day would be as precious as a million pounds, if I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.

Terry Pratchett

I have vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it, i would live my life as ever to the full and die, before the disease mounted its last attack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern version of the Brompton Cocktail some helpful medic could supply. And with Thomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with death.

Terry Pratchett

YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break...

Terry Pratchett

Rincewind shivered. He was not, of course, an atheist; on the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. On the few occasions when he had some spare change he had always made a point of dropping a few coppers into a temple coffer, somewhere, on the principle that a man needed all the friends he could get. But usually he didn't bother the Gods, and he hoped the Gods wouldn't bother him. Life was quite complicated enough.

Terry Eagleton

Nothing in human life is inherently private.

Terry Brooks

What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?

Tennessee Williams

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

Tennessee Williams

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Tennessee Williams

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Tennessee Williams

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Tennessee Williams

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Terence McKenna

The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.

Terence McKenna

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.

Terence McKenna

Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.

Terence McKenna

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

Terence McKenna

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

Terence McKenna

The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

Terence McKenna

Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

Temple Grandin

My life is basically my work.

Tecumseh

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man believes he has a greater possibility.