Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Biden

The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

Joan Baez

My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.

Joan Collins

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.

Jimmy Page

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

Louise Hay

Life can't give to you if your hands are closed. Open your mind, open your heart, and open your arms.

Louise Hay

I am totally safe in the Universe. I am at peace everywhere. I trust life.

Louise Hay

Each day is a start of a new adventure, and I eagerly look forward to today.

Louise Hay

Everything I need to know is revealed to me. Everything I need comes to me. All is well in my life.

Lou Reed

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

Logan Pearsall Smith

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Logan Pearsall Smith

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Lois Lowry

Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.

Lois Lowry

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

Lois Lowry

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

Lois Lowry

Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.

Lois Lowry

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.

Lloyd Alexander

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

Lloyd Alexander

We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.

Mao Zedong

Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat a tiny worm. A thousand villages collapsed, were choked with weeds, men were lost arrows. Ghosts sang in the doorway of a few desolate houses. Yet now in a day we leap around the earth or explore a thousand Milky Ways. And if the cowherd who lives on a star asks about the god of plagues, tell him, happy or sad, the god is gone, washed away in the waters. July 1, 1958

Madeleine M. Kunin

One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.

Madeleine L'Engle

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

Madeleine L'Engle

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.

Madeleine L'Engle

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

Madeleine L'Engle

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Madeleine L'Engle

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Madeleine L'Engle

life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.

Madeleine L'Engle

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

Lynne Reid Banks

I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.

Lytton Strachey

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

Lucy Powell

When the heart stops for one beat it is desire, when it stops for one life time it is love

Lucy Hale

Life is about becoming a better version of yourself.

Lucy Larcom

These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths, With dear companions now passed out of sight, Shall not be laid upon their graves. They live, Since love is deathless. Pleasure now nor pride Is theirs in mortal wise, but hallowing thoughts Will meet the offering, of so little worth, Wanting the benison death has made divine.

Lucy Larcom

It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a greater victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,--when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face, and saying, "Child, you must learn to like me in the form in which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other aspect.