Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing is impossible for pure love.

Gene Wolfe

A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.

Gavin Rossdale

A happy wife is a happy life.

Gabrielle Zevin

But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?

Freya Stark

One life is an absurdly small allowance.

Freya Stark

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own traveling brotherhood.

Frank Langella

Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a mans change of life.

Maggie Stiefvater

People don't change who they are. They only change what they do with it.

Madame de Stael

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Madame de Stael

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.

Madame de Stael

Why shouldn't man be as angry about not having always been alive as about having to stop being alive?

Madame de Stael

Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.

Haruki Murakami

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

Haruki Murakami

Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.

Haruki Murakami

I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it's part of growing up; it's also an attempt to reinvent myself.

Haruki Murakami

two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes

Haruki Murakami

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

Haruki Murakami

Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

Haruki Murakami

Everything in life is a metaphor.

Haruki Murakami

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

Haruki Murakami

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

Haruki Murakami

As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt. Man errs as long as he strives.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.