Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anais Nin

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

Anais Nin

The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin

If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.

Anais Nin

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

Anais Nin

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Anais Nin

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Anais Nin

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Anais Nin

Dreams are necessary to life.

Anais Nin

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Anais Nin

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Anais Nin

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Anais Nin

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Anais Nin

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Amanda Lindhout

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

Anne Carson

We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.

Anne Frank

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

Anita Shreve

That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.

Anita Roddick

Not all revolutionaries set out to change the world per se; some set out to change their own worlds. And in so doing, they often change the way one person, or a few people, or whole communities, or entire nations or the world thinks and operates in some significant way.

Anita Roddick

Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

William Shakespeare

. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle.

William Shakespeare

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!

William Shakespeare

Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

William Shakespeare

And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.

William Shakespeare

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.

William Shakespeare

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

William Shakespeare

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

William Shakespeare

Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!

William Shakespeare

We are not the first Who with best meaning have incurred the worst

William Shakespeare

Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied.

William Shakespeare

If fortune torments me, hope contents me.

Stephen Hawking

I have wondered about time all my life.

Robert Kiyosaki

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Maya Angelou

If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.