Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daphne du Maurier

I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.

Dante Alighieri

Love, which insists that love shall mutual be.

Dante Alighieri

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

Dante Alighieri

In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.

Dante Alighieri

The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them to the state of blessedness.

Dante Alighieri

The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.

Dante Alighieri

Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.

Dante Alighieri

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Dan Simmons

Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.

Dan Simmons

God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.

Dan Simmons

No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

Dan Simmons

Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

Dan Simmons

Life doesn't retreat.

Dan Rather

Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.

Cynthia Voigt

You could say that all of life is a series of last chances.

Cynthia Voigt

Maybe life was like a sea, and all the people were like boats ... Everybody who was born was cast into the sea. Winds would blow them in all directions. Tides would rise and turn, in their own rhythm. And the boats - they just went along as best they could, trying to find a harbor.

Cynthia Ozick

Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.

Cyril Connolly

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

Cyril Connolly

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Colonel Sanders

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Dar Williams

If you're lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.

Dar Williams

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

Dan Millman

Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying.

Dan Millman

Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy.

Dan Millman

As a peaceful warrior, I would choose when, where and how I would behave. With that commitment, I began to live the life of a warrior.

Dan Millman

There are no ordinary moments.

Dan Millman

Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

Dan Millman

The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.

Corrie Ten Boom

The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

Corrie Ten Boom

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Corrie Ten Boom

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

Cormac McCarthy

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

Cormac McCarthy

If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God.