Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Colum McCann

Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.

Clifford Odets

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.

Clifford Geertz

To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope.

Conan O'Brien

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

E. V. Lucas

The art of life is to show your hand.

E. V. Lucas

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

E. W. Howe

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

E. W. Howe

So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.

E. W. Howe

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

E. W. Howe

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Dwyane Wade

My life changed in a huge way. Mentally, I've been preparing for it for over a year now. To me, it's bigger than that. For me, it shows a lot of people that you need to fight to be in your kids' lives sometimes. You fight until you can't fight any more. That's all I was trying to be, a father in his kids' lives.

Coventry Patmore

The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise.

Gary Numan

Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.