Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Convert life into truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live, let live, and help live

Sean Penn

That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.

Scott Morrison

The way of awakening and freedom requires that we ask ourselves, with all of the earnestness, honesty, and humility at our command, just this one fundamental question: 'Am I willing to live this moment with as much attention and affection as possible, or am I going to do something else?'

Lily Tomlin

If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?

Lin Yutang

Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

Lin Yutang

If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.

Lin Yutang

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Lin Yutang

The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.

Li Keqiang

Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.

Les Claypool

Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity.

Les Brown

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.

Les Brown

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

Les Brown

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

Lee Iacocca

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Laurie Halse Anderson

She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.

L. Ron Hubbard

One cannot hold power and not use it.

L. Ron Hubbard

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

Thomas Aquinas

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

Thom Yorke

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

Thom Yorke

I'm still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man

Tertullian

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

Leo Rosten

You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.

Leo Buscaglia

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

Leo Buscaglia

A life lived in love will never be dull.