Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

China Mieville

We would never call inexplicable little insights hunches, for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in the proximity of one that had come through if you saw a detective kiss his or her fingers and touch his or her chest where a pendant to Warsha, patron saint of inexplicable inspirations, would, theoretically, hang.

Edith Sitwell

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

Edith Wharton

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

Edith Wharton

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

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.

William Shakespeare

Life's uncertain voyage.

Nick Flynn

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

Luke Mitchell

I got to a stage where tennis was the only thing in my life, and I didn't like that.

Guy Laliberte

All my life I've been flirting. I'm no different. I still carry on the same way.

Louis C. K.

You know what, it's not your life, it's life. Life is bigger than you, if you can imagine that. Life isn't something that you possess, it's something that you take part in and witness.

Marcus Aurelius

Your life is an expression of all your thoughts.