Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Simmons

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.

Alan Watts

Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

Alan Watts

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

Alan Watts

When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and the snow comes, is some kind of defeat, something which we should hold out against. No. Winter is part of the natural course of events. No winter, no summer. No cold, no heat.

Alan Watts

The destination of life is this eternal moment.

Alan Perlis

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Alan Ball

That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid. Ever. Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it... and my heart is going to cave in.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once. His Christian life ceases to be the complicated thing it had been before and becomes the very essence of simplicity.

Chris Cagle

Scars heal, glory fades, and all we're left with are the memories made. pain hurts, but only for a minute. life is short, so go on and live it.

Chogyam Trungpa

The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

Chogyam Trungpa

To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.

Chin-Ning Chu

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

Chief Seattle

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Edith Sitwell

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

David Hume

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

August Strindberg

Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!

August Wilson

There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death. Each of us rides them both. To live life with dignity, to celebrate and accept responsibility for your presence in the world is all that can be asked of anyone.

Arthur Rubinstein

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Arthur Rimbaud

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Arthur Rimbaud

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Arnold Bennett

The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.

Arnold Bennett

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Antonio Tabucchi

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

Denzel Washington

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

Denzel Washington

What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control

Denis Waitley

Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project.

Deepa Mehta

We cannot force our self to stay longer with something,situation or with the person who we don't really like . The best decision is to move on so then we can stay happy with our life style.

Deb Caletti

It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move along with it. You don't realize how fast this acutally happens, and it's kind of both creepy and wonderful when you stop to think about it. And it makes you realize there's absolutely no way to avoid change. You can sit there and cross your arms and refuse it, but underneath you, things are still spinning away.

Lorraine Toussaint

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

M. Night Shyamalan

I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.

T. S. Eliot

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

William Shakespeare

Ten masts make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fell. Thy life's a miracle.

Nick Flynn

In life you get one take, and it's perfect.