Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Osgood

We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.

Charles Osgood

Life is beautiful but people are crazy.

Debra Messing

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

Arthur Symons

Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears, A naked runner lost in a storm of spears.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Aristophanes

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Antonio Porchia

Yes I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.

Antonya Nelson

You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with a lesson about your own life passages if you let it.

Bruce Lee

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Bruce Lee

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.

Bruce Lee

There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

Bruce Lee

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Edward Young

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Edward Young

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.

Edward Young

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Edward Young

Creation sleeps! 'T is as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,- An awful pause! prophetic of her end.

Eckhart Tolle

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

Eckhart Tolle

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Eckhart Tolle

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Eckhart Tolle

Being rich/wealthy is being in touch with the fullness of life. When you are open to the present moment, what comes in, is a gratitude for "what is". When you are aligned with the present moment, there is a peace that comes, so it is like you are experiencing life for the first time, when you become present. When you are in a state of gratitude for what is ... that is really what being wealthy means

Elie Wiesel

Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

Elie Wiesel

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

Edward R. Murrow

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

Brit Marling

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.