Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Walker

On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what's hidden. It's illuminated life more than darkened it.

Zoe Cassavetes

I'm not complaining about my life; every moment of it has been fantastic, and I'm so lucky.

Zoe Cassavetes

As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Whenever life's at a standstill, I need some action.

Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.

Zainab Salbi

Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.

Vicky McClure

I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.

Drew Gooden

Those are the kind of plays that take the life out of the other team.

Those who get lost on the way to school will never find their way through life

Those who dont love themselves as they are rarely love life either.

E. F. Schumacher

The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

E. F. Schumacher

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

E. F. Schumacher

The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.

You have some time to prove your life is back on track here... don't mess it up,

Richard Bach

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

Richard Bach

The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life; find what we most want to do; do it, no matter what; and in the doing be guaranteed a very difficult and a very happy lifetime.

Richard Bach

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

Richard Bach

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

Richard Bach

Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.

Richard Bach

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

Richard Bach

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Richard Bach

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

Richard Bach

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

Robert Foster Bennett

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

Robert Foster Bennett

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

Robert Frost

An idea comes as close to something for nothing as you can get.

Robert Frost

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

Robert Frost

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.

Robert Frost

Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of earth's unhonored things Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun; And the mind whirls and the heart sings, And a shout greets the daring one.

Robert Fulghum

If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of sloppy editing. I'm repeating myself. I'm reshuffling words in the hope that just once I might say something exactly right. And I'm still wrestling with dilemmas that are not easily resolved or easily dismissed. I run at them again and again because I am not finished with them. Any may never be. Work-in- progress on a life-in-progress is what my writing is about. And some progress in the work is enough to keep it going on.

Robert Fulghum

Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.

Robert Fulghum

Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.