Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Martineau

There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.

Emily Dickinson

To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.

Emily Dickinson

Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him -

Emily Dickinson

If I shouldn't be alive When the Robins come, Give the one in Red Cravat, A Memorial crumb.

Emily Dickinson

No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -

Emily Dickinson

I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

Emily Dickinson

She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.

Emily Dickinson

Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.

Emily Dickinson

The Life we have is very great. The Life that we shall see Surpasses it, we know, because It is Infinity, But when all Space has been beheld And all Dominion shown The smallest Human Heart's extent Reduces it to none.

Emily Dickinson

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!

Emily Dickinson

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!

Emily Dickinson

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

Emily Dickinson

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Emily Dickinson

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Ellsworth Huntington

With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way and that. Each throb has sent pain and decay to the lands whose day was done, life and vigour to those whose day was yet to be.

Ellen Page

I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.

Ellen Page

Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.

Ellen Page

Love, the beauty of it, the joy of it and yes, even the pain of it, is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being. And we deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.

Elizabeth Smart

What you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More.

Helen Hayes

An actress's life is so transitory-suddenly you're a building.

Mark Billingham

An actor's life is all about rejection. It's you they don't want; it's you who's too tall or too short or too fat. With stand-up, it doesn't matter what you look like.

All of us, all of us, people from many faiths, have been touched by Tom's life and his death.

Colin Pillinger

All the ingredients for life on Mars exist.

Elaine Stritch

And why not do something new every day of your life? Change! Change!

Edward T. Hall

It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.

Edward T. Hall

We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.

Edward Dahlberg

Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life.

Edith Hamilton

though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

Edith Hamilton

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.

Eddie Cantor

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

Eckhart Tolle

Life always is now. Life is inseparable from now.

Eckhart Tolle

The voice in your head also creates a huge amount of problems that aren't really problems. They're just things that haven't happened yet, things that could happen tomorrow or next week. Listening to unreal problems has another name: worrying. That's what the voice in your head does. It what-ifs. It frets. It agonizes, and you can no longer sense the joy of life.