Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Anthony Froude

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Jacques Monod

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.

Henry Rollins

Life is weird, great and dangerous.

Henry Rollins

While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.

Henry Rollins

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Henry Rollins

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

Henry Rollins

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

Henry Rollins

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Henry Austin Dobson

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

Henry B. Eyring

You could ask yourself, 'How did God Bless me today?' If you do that long enough and with faith, you will find yourself remembering blessings. And sometimes you will have gifts brought to your mind which you failed to notice during the day, but which you will then know were a touch of God's hand in your life.

Henry Adams

To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.

Henry Adams

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

Helen Hunt Jackson

When love is at its best, one loves So much that he cannot forget.

Helen Hayes

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The wonderful thing is that the soul already knows to some extent that there is something behind the veil, the veil of perplexity, that there is something to be sought for in the highest spheres of life, that there is some beauty to be seen, that there is Someone to be known who is knowable.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Life is a place where it is necessary to move gently. Whether it be in thought, speech, or action, the rhythm must be controlled; the law of harmony must be observed in all that one does. If there is anything that will bring satisfaction it is diving deep into Love, and then we shall realize that there is nothing which is not just; we shall never again say that anything is unjust. This is the point the wise reach, and they call it the culmination of wisdom.

Henry Bromell

We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.

Henepola Gunaratana

The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.

Hector Elizondo

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

Heber J. Grant

I know of nothing that I feel is of so great value in life as to be obedient to the counsel and advice of the Lord, and of His servants in this our day.

Hector Hugh Munro

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

Henry David Thoreau

No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

Henry David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

Henry David Thoreau

Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

Henry David Thoreau

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles.

Henry David Thoreau

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

Henry David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

Henry David Thoreau

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

Henry David Thoreau

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Henry David Thoreau

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.