Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pearl Bailey

You must change in order to survive.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Phylicia Rashad

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

Phyllis George

Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.

Phyllis McGinley

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

Philip Pullman

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

Philip Pullman

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

Rachel Cohn

Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke

Rachel Cohn

The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.

Rabindranath Tagore

God seeks comrades and claims love, The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore

In love, at one of its poles you find the personal, and at the other the impersonal. At one you have the positive assertion - Here I am; at the other the equally strong denial - I am not. Without this ego what is love? And again, with only this ego how can love be possible? Bondage and liberation are not antagonistic in love. For love is most free and at the same time most bound. If God were absolutely free there would be no creation. The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.

Rabindranath Tagore

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

Rabindranath Tagore

We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter and force are unmeaning unless related to something infinitely personal, whose nature we have discovered, in some measure, in human love, in the greatness of the good, in the martyrdom of heroic souls, in the ineffable beauty of nature, which can never be a mere physical fact nor anything but an expression of personality.

Rabindranath Tagore

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; He who loves, finds the door open.

Rabindranath Tagore

You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Rabindranath Tagore

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

Rabindranath Tagore

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Rabindranath Tagore

Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

Queen Victoria

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.

Queen Elizabeth II

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Queen Elizabeth II

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Pythagoras

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

Queen Latifah

There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

Pitbull

Life is to live it, not to let it live you.

Plato

The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.

Julian Barnes

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

Josiah Royce

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.