Quotes on Life
“I don’t believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.”
Ray Bradbury, Life
“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
Ray Bradbury, Life
"You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive."
Ray Bradbury, Life, Goals
“Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.”
Ray Bradbury, Life, Goals
“‘Stuff your eyes with wonder,’ he said, ‘live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.’”
Ray Bradbury, Life, Goals
“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
Ray Bradbury, Life, Goals
“You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
Neil Gaiman, Life
“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country
Neil Gaiman, Life
“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
Neil Gaiman, Life
“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.
She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Neil Gaiman, Life
“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Neil Gaiman, Life
“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, Life
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
Neil Gaiman, Life
“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, Life
“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections
Neil Gaiman, Life
“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman, Life
“You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman, Life
“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman, Life
“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Neil Gaiman, Life
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman, Life
“There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you. Late one night the telephone will sign, and a voice that might be hers will say something that you cannot interpret before the connection crackles and is broken.
Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again.
Whenever it rains you will think of her.”
― Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, Life
“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman, Life
“When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right" we whisper, "I'm here, I love you." and we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days
Neil Gaiman, Life
“It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman, Life
“What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
'Cats don't have names,' it said.
'No?' said Coraline.
'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Neil Gaiman, Life
“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman, Life
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman, Life, Happiness
“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”
― Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
Neil Gaiman, Life, Success
"To have your job as your hobby - life don't get better than that."
Ronnie Coleman, Happiness, Life
"A day in the life of Ronnie Coleman mainly consists of eating, training or sleeping."
Ronnie Coleman, Life
"I've been in pain for so long now I'm just used to it."
Ronnie Coleman, Life
"The more I have to do, the better off I am."
Ronnie Coleman, Life
"My biggest competition is always myself. I mean no disrespect, but I do not look at any of the guys as being my competition for the simple reason that I can't control how they're going to look. I can only control how I look."
Ronnie Coleman, Life
"Thank god for pure natural strength."
Ronnie Coleman, Life
"I don't know how well-known it is, but I had back surgery in '07, and it took about two years to recover."
Ronnie Coleman, Life
"I’m just normal."
Ronnie Coleman, Life
"It’s all just apples and oranges."
Ronnie Coleman, Life
"Father time and injuries are tough adversaries."
Ronnie Coleman, Life
"I've been always a big guy - I was much larger and stronger than my peers when I was 13 years old."
Ronnie Coleman, Life
"Your body produces a lot less testosterone each and every single year no matter who you are. We are all human, nobody is superhuman."
Ronnie Coleman, Life
"Different things work for different people."
Ronnie Coleman, Life
"I quit working in the police force full time only after I won my third Mr. Olympia."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"When you hit failure, your workout has just begun."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"As my athletic career was coming to an end in 2007, I asked myself, do I want to work for somebody, or go out and make a difference?"
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"When you love something as much as I love bodybuilding you don’t have to do much extra to push yourself, it just happens."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"It is a lot of pressure to prepare for Mr. Olympia."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"I always train heavy and it worked well for me. Most people would be worried about an injury but if you’re gonna worry about it so much, it’s gonna happen anyway."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"I work out every body part twice a week, and that is what helps me stay in shape."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"Hard work and training. There’s no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"You can’t do this if you’re not dedicated and determined and have a strong faith. Because it’s extremely hard, especially trying to work a job and do it."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"I have fans from every level of the fitness world, whether it’s the elite competitor or just someone living a healthy lifestyle, and it’s been my goal since day one to make sure that my brand has something to offer everyone."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"I’ve been training so long, it's second nature to push myself to the limit."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"There were some tough times and when those came up I just used my mental strength to push through knowing that my mind-controlled everything."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
22. "A Good Death Only Comes After A Good Life."
- Shimazu in John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
John Wick, Death, Life
18. "'Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum. (If You Want Peace, Prepare For War.)"
- Winston Scott in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019)
John Wick, Anger and Fighting, Life
14. "How Good To See You Again So Soon, Mr. Wick."
- Charon in John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
John Wick, Life
2. "Rusty, I Guess."
- John Wick in John Wick (2014)
John Wick, Life
"Denial is the most predictable of all human responses." – The Architect (The Matrix Reloaded)
The Matrix, Life
"Some people go their entire lives without hearing news that good." – Neo (The Matrix Reloaded)
The Matrix, Life
"Not like this. Not like this" – Switch (The Matrix)
The Matrix, Life
"What's really going to bake your noodle later on is, would you still have broken it if I hadn’t said anything?" – The Oracle (The Matrix)
The Matrix, Life
"The body cannot live without the mind" – Morpheus (The Matrix)
The Matrix, Life
"I don't like the idea that I’m not in control of my life." – Neo (The Matrix)
The Matrix, Life
"What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life." – Morpheus (The Matrix)
The Matrix, Life
"It's the question that drives us, Neo. It's the question that brought you here. You know the question, just as I did." – Trinity (The Matrix)
The Matrix, Life
"What was said was for you, and you alone." – Morpheus (The Matrix)
The Matrix, Life
"Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." – Morpheus (The Matrix)
The Matrix, Life
"Neo, sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." – Morpheus (The Matrix)
The Matrix, Life
"There is no spoon." – Spoon Boy (The Matrix)
The Matrix, Life
"I can only show you the door, you're the one that has to walk through it." – Morpheus (The Matrix)
The Matrix, Life
"Choice. The problem is choice." – Neo (The Matrix Reloaded)
The Matrix, Life, Problems
"To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human." – Mouse (The Matrix)
The Matrix, Life, Goals
"You take the blue pill... the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill... you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." – Morpheus (The Matrix)
The Matrix, Life, Goals
“I’m good at sh*t though. The first time I do something, I’ll probably be good at it.”
King Von, Life
“I remember the times I had nowhere to go.”
King Von, Life
“Would’ve never guessed I’ll be making movies.”
King Von, Life
“In jail, you don’t do sh*t but read, write, and think about the past sh*t that I did. In jail, you don’t got nothing but memories in that b*tch. I was reading a lot of books in there. That’s probably where that sh*t came from.”
King Von, Life
“Do you ever get that sad feeling out of nowhere?”
King Von, Life
“That sh*t gonna figure it out in real life.”
King Von, Life
“Time goes by, and sh*t just changes, man. People get old. People got their own sh*t going on. You know how that goes.”
King Von, Life
“The day a n*gga try, that’s the day he die.”
King Von, Life, Death
“When I say, ‘Let me focus,’ that was just me talking to the audience. I was talking to the audience. See, I was daydreaming in the car or some sh*t. Now, folks and I see what’s goin’ on. Oh, I’m gonna ride this n*gga. You see what I’m saying?”
King Von, Life, Art
“I done did my time, I’m chillin’.”
King Von, Goals, Life
“There’s only so many options if a n*gga like you has felonies and sh*t. This one wasn’t working for me. This one wasn’t going right. I ain’t good at this. This is gonna get you a lot of time, so I’ma try rapping.”
King Von, Goals, Life
“I’m gettin’ bigger, you just got to know how to handle that sh*t. People goin’ to be up in your business now.”
King Von, Goals, Life
“Everybody that f*cks with me, they f*ck with me, but I have to get busy because it’s all about building and going up.”
King Von, Goals, Life
“A person that stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
King Von, Goals, Life
"Life is tough, and things don't always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.
BTS: Suga, Goals, Life
"Emotions are so different in every situation and every moment, so I think to agonize every moment is what life is."
BTS: Suga, Goals, Life
"Please don’t be afraid, don’t worry yourself. The end and beginning, beginning and end are connected."
BTS: Suga, Life
"If we all gather our embarrassment together, it’ll become confidence."
BTS: Jin, Life, Goals
"Those who want to look more youthful should live life with a young heart."
BTS: Jin, Life, Goals
"When something is delicious. It's zero calories."
BTS: Jin, Life
"Living without passion is like being dead."
BTS: Jungkook, Life, Death
"I’m like a surfer, first you just paddle and fall off the board but as time goes by you can stand up on the bigger waves."
BTS: RM, Goals, Life
"Once your heart is moved, it will develop to something better and positive."
BTS: Jimin, Life
"I hope you will never give up. Remember there is a person here in Korea, in the city of Seoul, who understands you."
BTS: Jimin, Goals, Life
"When things get tough, look at the people who love you! You will get energy from them."
BTS: J-Hope, Goals, Love, Life
“Basically what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you’re in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don’t recommend it.”
DJ Khaled, Life
“Those that weather the storm are the great ones.”
DJ Khaled, Life
“I changed… a lot.”
DJ Khaled, Life
“Congratulations, you played yourself.”
DJ Khaled, Life
“They will try to close the door on you, just open it.”
DJ Khaled, Life, Goals
“People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.”
DJ Khaled, Life, Goals
“You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.”
DJ Khaled, Life, Goals
“...After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. I am strongly of the opinion that the great majority of people will always find these are the moving impulses of our life. But it is only those who do not understand our people, who believe that our national life is entirely absorbed by material motives. We make no concealment of the fact that we want wealth, but there are many other things that we want much more. We want peace and honor, and that charity which is so strong an element of all civilization. The chief ideal of the American people is idealism.”
Calvin Coolidge, Business, Wealth, Goals, Life
“It is a very old saying that you never can tell what you can do until you try. The more I see of life the more I am convinced of the wisdom of that observation.”
― Calvin Coolidge, Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge, Goals, Life
“I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.”
Calvin Coolidge, Goals, Life
“Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”
Calvin Coolidge, Goals, Life
“If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.”
Calvin Coolidge, Goals, Life
“Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.”
Calvin Coolidge, Life
“It has been my observation in life that, if one will only exercise the patience to wait, his wants are likely to be filled.”
― Calvin Coolidge, Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge, Life
“You don't have to explain something you haven't said.”
Calvin Coolidge, Life
“If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.”
Calvin Coolidge, Life
“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”
Calvin Coolidge, Life
“If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.”
Calvin Coolidge, Life
“Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?”
Calvin Coolidge, Life
“No person was ever honored for what he recieved. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.”
Calvin Coolidge, Life
“I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.”
Calvin Coolidge, Life
“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.”
- Presidential message, December 25, 1927”
Calvin Coolidge, Life
“It takes a great man to be a good listener.”
Calvin Coolidge, Life
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
Calvin Coolidge, Life, Intelligence/Wisdom
“Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amout of hard work that is put into it.”
― Calvin Coolidge, The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge, Life, Success
“She was practically an invalid ever after I could remember her, but used what strength she had in lavish care upon me and my sister, who was three years younger. There was a touch of mysticism and poetry in her nature which made her love to gaze at the purple sunsets and watch the evening stars. Whatever was grand and beautiful in form and color attracted her. It seemed as though the rich green tints of the foliage and the blossoms of the flowers came for her in the springtime, and in the autumn it was for her that the mountain sides were struck with crimson and with gold.”
― Calvin Coolidge, Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge, Life, Nature
“I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.”
Kendrick Lamar, Life
“Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you.”
Kendrick Lamar, Life
“It’s easy to forget who you are.”
Kendrick Lamar, Life
“Look at me, I’m a loser, I’m a winner, I’m good, I’m bad. I’m a sinner, I’m a killer. What I’m doing, I’m saying that I’m human.”
Kendrick Lamar, Life
“We look so much on color that we forget about the soul.“
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?“
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“We’re all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learn from them is the key.“
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“The message I’m sending to myself – I can’t change the world until I change myself first.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“I live this life at a pace that anyone can go. Know your place, and dedicate your role…To the faith that you’ll die alone.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“Ya’ll don’t want me to win. I’m tryna follow dreams, you want me to follow trends.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“The sky can fall down, the wind can cry now. The strong in me, I still smile.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“Take advantage. Do your best, don’t stress. You was granted everything inside this planet, anything you imagine, you possess.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people… if they care, they’ll notice. If they don’t, you know where you stand.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“Life will put many red lights in front of you, but sometimes we must push on the gas and trust god.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life, Belief
“In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity" Ch.2, 8”
― John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
John Locke, Goals, Life
“To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.”
John Locke, Goals, Life
“Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?”
John Locke, Life
“Personal Identity depends on Consciousness not on Substance.”
― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke, Life
“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”
John Locke, Life
“What worries you masters you.”
― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Volume I
John Locke, Life
“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”
John Locke, Life
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
John Locke, Life
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.”
John Locke, Life
“A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.”
John Locke, Life, Happiness
“Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assumed prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds.”
― John Locke, Locke's Conduct of the Understanding
John Locke, Life, Wealth
“The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.”
Ice Cube, Life, Love, Work
“My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go – not too often, but every now and then – to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.”
Ice Cube, Life
“I can’t believe, today was a good day.”
Ice Cube, Life
“If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.”
Ice Cube, Goals, Life
“I am only 33, I’ve got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I’m looking forward to the future and I’m proud about the past.”
Ice Cube, Goals, Life
“I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it’s like climbing a mountain or building a building. It’s a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.”
Ice Cube, Goals, Life
“I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I’m a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.”
Ice Cube, Goals, Life
“Nothing wrong with being from the hood, but I’d rather my kids be visitors than residents.”
Ice Cube, Goals, Life
“People cry, not because they are weak. It is because they've been strong for too long.”
Johnny Depp, Life
“They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.”
Johnny Depp, Life
“My daughter was asked by a little old lady in a London hotel restaurant what her daddy did. She answered, “He’s a pirate” - I was very proud of that answer.”
Johnny Depp, Life
“If there's any message, it is ultimately that it's okay to be different; that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.”
Johnny Depp, Life
“I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.”
Johnny Depp, Life
“Life's pretty good, and why wouldnt it be? I'm a pirate, after all.”
Johnny Depp, Life
“When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.”
Johnny Depp, Life
“My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.”
Johnny Depp, Life
“We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.”
Johnny Depp, Life
“Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“Breathe. It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“One of the greatest pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said “Okay, I’m gonna tell you what to do. If the kid’s bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock...”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.
Clint Eastwood, Life
I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.
Clint Eastwood, Life
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Clint Eastwood, Life
We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.
Clint Eastwood, Life
My whole life has been one big improvisation.
Clint Eastwood, Life
The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Clint Eastwood, Life
What you put into life is what you get out of it.
Clint Eastwood, Life
If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.
Clint Eastwood, Life
Tomorrow is promised to no one.
Clint Eastwood, Life
You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.
Clint Eastwood, Life
There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.
Clint Eastwood, Life
I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.
Clint Eastwood, Life
We boil at different degrees.
Clint Eastwood, Life
Fate pulls you in different directions.
Clint Eastwood, Life
Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.
Clint Eastwood, Goals, Life, Happiness
I’ve taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.
Clint Eastwood, Goals, Life
Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?
Clint Eastwood, Goals, Life
"I like everything a certain way. I’m not somebody who can just lay back and let it happen… And I think that’s what’s gotten me to where I am in life."
Kim Kardashian, Goals, Life
"Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I’m not married; I don’t have kids; I can focus on my career."
Kim Kardashian, Goals, Life
"I am just at a point in my life where I don’t want to be naive anymore. And I want to use my platform to get other people involved."
Kim Kardashian, Goals, Life
"I always pee all over my Spanx. It’s a disaster. They aren’t crotchless enough!"
Kim Kardashian, Life
"I can smell when someone has a cavity. It’s a very specific smell — not a bad-breath smell — but something that is really strong."
Kim Kardashian, Life
“It’s my reputation over someone’s life? Weigh that out. People talk s— about me all day long. It will just be another story about me versus someone getting their life back.”
Kim Kardashian, Life
"Holidays are the best. I couldn’t imagine being from a small family."
Kim Kardashian, Life
“I don’t even drink. I can’t stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year’s Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don’t touch booze, I’m always the designated driver.”
Kim Kardashian, Life
"I love the sun but don’t have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round, so I am a huge fan of tanning products."
Kim Kardashian, Life
"In recent years I’m, like, too cool for duck face. So that doesn’t happen."
Kim Kardashian, Life
"Stretch marks are my biggest fear of life."
Kim Kardashian, Life
"Have you ever thought someone was kinda cool, liked their vibe then saw their tweets and realized they are so lame?"
Kim Kardashian, Life
"Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that’s OK."
Kim Kardashian, Life
"There’s a lot of baggage that comes with us, but it’s like Louis Vuitton baggage; you always want it."
Kim Kardashian, Life
"I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised."
Kim Kardashian, Life
"You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me."
Kim Kardashian, Life
“At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are, and I feel like we are so blessed to have the support system and the best family to really just support each other no matter what we’re going through.”
Kim Kardashian, Life, Happiness
“If I tell the truth about me, what can the world say? I’d love to be accepted, but I’m not seeking acceptance. If you are a fan, it’s because you’re a fan of who I am psychological, emotionally, and individually. The world can relate to a human being more than it can relate to a superstar.”
Kevin Gates, Truth, Goals, Life
“Been through a lot of pain in my life.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“Sometimes yeah sometime I’m in my feelings.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“I’m in a rush, it was nice to meet ya.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“Loyalty is hard to find; trust is easy to lose.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“I got it out the mud. Ain’t nobody ever gave me nothing.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“If you go back on your word.. I won’t say anything but in my mind you punk for life.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“When you level up your life will change. You will come across harder opponents and situations.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“Everybody around you pretending that they are your partner, let you have a problem they won’t even help you out.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“People will flip on you at the drop of a dime. Just be prepared so it doesn’t surprise you.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“Entertainment and the streets don’t go together.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“Sometimes the best move is no move.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“I’m a perfect imperfection. My craft has been perfected. I just need affection, emotionally. I’m an introvert but it comes off as aggression.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“When you come up in the slums, having nothing makes you humble.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“I like where we at now — but I’m in love with where we going.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“I’m not made out of concrete. I’m a real person.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“If I told you I was different would you understand the difference?”
Kevin Gates, Life
“She says I’m a dog, but it takes one to know one.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“When you come up in the slums, having nothin’ make you humble.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“The ones that hate you most tend to be the people you know.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“I experience great hurt, this hurt allows me to know I’m alive.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“I was built for that pressure.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“I got 6 jobs I don’t get TIRED!”
Kevin Gates, Life
“Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can’t have one without the other. They coincide.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity?”
Kevin Gates, Life
“Without an understanding of bad…how can one truly have an appreciation of good.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“You have to be intimate with a person to know that person.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“Out my window.. I see everything I dream about and wished I had.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you’re destined for failure.”
Kevin Gates, Life
“I don’t is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.”
Kevin Gates, Life, Music
“Inspiration comes from many things, and in the life of KG his music is just one of them.”
Kevin Gates, Life, Music
“The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can’t make music.”
Kevin Gates, Life, Music
“I believe that life is a journey and for me to tell you my plans; things never go according to plan.”
Kevin Gates, Life, Planning
“Some’ll say life is a gamble, which means love is a casino. Everybody just playin’ to win.”
Kevin Gates, Life, Love
“Sometimes it’s painful to relive the past, but sometimes you gotta relive the past in order to heal from it.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Life
“The energy in the daytime is so different because everyone is so unhappy and depressed, and you can pick up on that energy psychokinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything’s settled; you can see more.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Life
“In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Life
“Watch people daily and you will see their true colors.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Life
“I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Life
“A lot of the times you read something and you don’t realize that you are going to have to do the things that you read.”
Will Ferrell, Life
“If you ain’t first, you’re last!”
Will Ferrell, Life
“I’m a cotton-headed ninny muggins.”
Will Ferrell, Life
“Once a person has a child, the first question everyone asks is: “Are you going to have more children?” But it basically means: “Are you going to have more sex with your wife in the hopes of having children?” ”
Will Ferrell, Life
“I’ve never had a yard sale, ever, in my life. I don’t know if I ever thought about stuff I would get rid of.”
Will Ferrell, Life
“One of the challenges you will face is finding a job in our depressed economy, … In fact, the chances of finding a job are about as good as finding weapons of mass destruction in the Iraqi desert — slim and none, and slim just left the building.”
Will Ferrell, Life
“Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.”
Will Ferrell, Life
“I look good. I mean, really good. Hey everyone! Come and see how good I look!”
Will Ferrell, Life
“It’s the fastest who get paid and it’s the fastest who get laid.”
Will Ferrell, Life
“Grief is nature’s most powerful aphrodisiac.”
Will Ferrell, Life
“In every circle of friends there’s always that one person everyone secretly hates. Don’t have one? Then it’s probably you.”
Will Ferrell, Life
“No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.”
Will Ferrell, Life
“I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!”
Will Ferrell, Life, Success
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.”
Will Ferrell, Life, Goals
“Enjoy the little fun things – like taking your kids to school – before they’re all grown up.”
Will Ferrell, Life, Goals
“I don’t know about living on an automatic pilot, but I’ve had times where I’ve decided to just test myself and my mettle, and for no good reason other than it’s what life is. Even before I was acting, I had, like, one day in high school I decided to just show them my pajamas, just for no good reason.”
Will Ferrell, Life, Goals
“What’s the point of being bad when there’s nothing good to stop you?”
Will Ferrell, Life, Goals
“But for fatherhood advice, try to look your child in the eye…. Get to know their name; that becomes important when you want something. And remember to feed them. That’s about all you need.”
Will Ferrell, Life, Goals
“No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it’s never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.”
Will Ferrell, Life, Goals
“I believe you need to be educated on what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you necessarily need collage to get there.”
Will Smith, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
“People’s advice is based on their fears, their experiences, their prejudices, and at the end of the day, their advice is just that: it’s theirs, not yours. When people give you advice, they’re basing it on what they would do, what they can perceive, on what they think you can do. But the bottom line is, while yes, it is true that we are all subject to a series of universal laws, patterns, tides, and currents—all of which are somewhat predictable—you are the first time you’ve ever happened. YOU and NOW are a unique occurrence, of which you are the most reliable measure of all the possibilities.”
― Will Smith, Will
Will Smith, Life
“Choosing the city you live in is as important as choosing your life partner.”
― Will Smith, Will
Will Smith, Life
“If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.”
Will Smith, Life
“The thing I’ve learned over the years about advice is that no one can accurately predict the future, but we all think we can. So advice at its best is one person’s limited perspective of the infinite possibilities before you. People’s advice is based on their fears, their experiences, their prejudices, and at the end of the day, their advice is just that: it’s theirs, not yours. When people give you advice, they’re basing it on what they would do, what they can perceive, on what they think you can do. But the bottom line is, while yes, it is true that we are all subject to a series of universal laws, patterns, tides, and currents—all of which are somewhat predictable—you are the first time you’ve ever happened. YOU and NOW are a unique occurrence, of which you are the most reliable measure of all the possibilities.”
Will Smith, Life
“It’s respectable to lose to the universe. It’s a tragedy to lose to yourself.”
― Will Smith, Will
Will Smith, Life
“Life isn't how many breaths you take, but it's the moments that take your breath away.”
Will Smith, Life
“The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things. Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft."
Will Smith, Life
“Being realistic is the most common path to mediocrity.”
Will Smith, Life
“I wanna say something that I want you to remember for the rest of your life, OK? I want you to listen closely. I'm giving you a key to life right now, this is the key to life. The key to life, the key to life is running and reading. Oh right? Now listen very seriously, the key to life is running and reading. Right now, why running? When you're running and you are there and you're running there's a little person that talks to you and that little person says "Oh, I'm tired", "My lounge's about to pop", "I'm so hurt", "I'm so tired", "There's no way I can possibly continue". And you wanna quit. Right? That person, if you learn how to defeat that person when you're running you will learn how to not quit when things get hard in your life. Running. Oh right? That's the first key to life. Reading. The reason the reading is so important. There've been millions and billions and billions and gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There's no new problem you can have with your parents, with school, with a bully, with anything, there's no problem you can have that someone hasn't already solved and wrote about it in a book. So they keys to life are running and reading.”
Will Smith, Life
“Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is the product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Now do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice.” ― Will Smith in the movie 'After Earth'
Will Smith, Life
“Fear is not real. It is a product of thoughts you create. Do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real. But fear is a choice.”
Will Smith, Life
“Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real but fear is a choice.”
Will Smith, Life
“In filmmaking circles, there is a simple axiom that describes the structure of a great character journey: somebody wants something badly, and goes for it, against all odds. (Another variation is, a person falls into a hole, and tries to get out.) If you think about any movie you’ve ever liked, any character you’ve ever rooted for, it’s because they wanted something you could relate to and they struggled, risking life and limb, to achieve it. What’s true about movies is also true about life: You tell me what you want, and I’ll tell you who you are.”
― Will Smith, Will
Will Smith, Life, Art
“Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing, & work hard. The right people ~ the ones who really belong in your life ~ will come to you & stay.”
Will Smith, Life, Goals
“If you are unwilling or unable to pivot and adapt to the incessant, fluctuating tides of life, you will not enjoy being here. Sometimes, people try to play the cards that they wish they had, instead of playing the hand they’ve been dealt. The capacity to adjust and improvise is arguably the single most critical human ability.”
― Will Smith, Will
Will Smith, Life, Goals
“How we decide to respond to our fears, that is the person we become. I decided to be funny.”
― Will Smith, Will
Will Smith, Life, Goals
“Life is like school, with one key difference—in school you get the lesson, and then you take the test. But in life, you get the test, and it’s your job to take the lesson.”
― Will Smith, Will
Will Smith, Life, Goals
“If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.”
Will Smith, Life, Goals, Time
“Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, and to hide every pain.”
Will Smith, Life, Goals, Problems
“The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself.”
Victor Hugo, Love, Life, Happiness
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
Victor Hugo, Love, Life, Happiness
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Victor Hugo, Love, Life
“Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“I’m not totally useless. I can be used as a bad example.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“The earth is a great piece of stupidity.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering–a hell of boredom.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“To contemplate is to look at shadows.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“People do not lack strength, they lack will.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!”
Victor Hugo, Life
“He who does not weep does not see.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“Habit is the nursery of errors.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“Those who live are those who fight.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.”
Victor Hugo, Life
“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”
Victor Hugo, Life, Death
“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”
Victor Hugo, Life, Happiness
“Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. … One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.”
Victor Hugo, Life, Happiness
“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”
Victor Hugo, Life, Goals
“Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.”
Victor Hugo, Life, Goals
“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.”
Victor Hugo, Life, Time
“He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.”
Victor Hugo, Life, Planning
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf, Life
“It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf, Life
“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf, Life
“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Virginia Woolf, Life
“She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf, Life
“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”
Virginia Woolf, Life
“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Virginia Woolf, Life
“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf, Life
“I am rooted, but I flow.”
Virginia Woolf, Life
“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
Virginia Woolf, Life
“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
Virginia Woolf, Life
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
Virginia Woolf, Life
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
Virginia Woolf, Life
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf, Life
“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.”
Virginia Woolf, Life, Goals
“Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Virginia Woolf, Life, Goals
“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...”
Virginia Woolf, Life, Goals, Love
“Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.”
Virginia Woolf, Life, Love, Happiness
“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf, Art, Goals, Life
"Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going."
Macho Man, Art, Life
"I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good."
Macho Man, Art, Life
“As far as my divorce goes, I love my family and I love my wife to death and I just don’t know what tomorrow’s going to bring.”
Hulk Hogan, Love, Life
“I’m 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything.”
Hulk Hogan, Life
“A lot of people didn’t realize that with the carpet being pulled out from under me in such a short time frame I got to such a bad place.”
Hulk Hogan, Life
“I’ve been knocked out a few times, but I have no idea how many concussions I’ve ever had.”
Hulk Hogan, Life
“I train all the time and the weird thing is I’m in the gym with people between 20 and 25 years old and I look in the mirror and I look better than they do and they are young kids – either they haven’t trained hard enough or they aren’t serious enough.”
Hulk Hogan, Life
“If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I’m just going to hold my breath, because I know i’m going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.”
Hulk Hogan, Life
“I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It’s so hard to give up what you love doing. Hanging up the boots will not be an easy thing to do.”
Hulk Hogan, Life
“Then as I was wrestling as Terry Boulder. I was on a talk show with Lou Ferrigno, and I was actually bigger than he was! I went back to the dressing room that night and all of the wrestlers go ‘Oh my God you’re bigger than the hulk on TV’ so they started calling me Terry ‘The Hulk’ Boulder.”
Hulk Hogan, Life
“I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.”
Hulk Hogan, Life
“I’m real critical of myself and if I take the bandana off my head I’m completely bald headed and go from being 58 to looking 68 instantly.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals, Life
“People are really nice in the world. The majority of every single person I meet is really nice. Some people get excited, and some people freak out when they accidentally run into me, but across the board most people are really nice, so I just like to treat people how they treat me.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals, Life
“In the ring, it’s fun to be the bad guy, but 24 hours a day, when you have to talk to kids, and you see Make-A-Wish kids that love you, the bad guy stuff is not fun. I’d rather be a good guy 24 hours a day than a bad guy just for a few minutes in the ring.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals, Life
“True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.”
Robert E Lee, Life
“All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away-by standing still.”
― Robert E. Lee, Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century
Robert E Lee, Life
“There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.”
Robert E Lee, Life
“It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.”
Robert E Lee, Life
“It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, 'What's the matter with him?' I know. I know what it feels like. Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. Shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked against you. And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something, or if you're just walking away.”
― Robert E. Lee, Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century
Robert E Lee, Life
“My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or the present aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.”
Robert E Lee, Life, Hope
“Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.”
― William James, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
William James, Science, Life
“Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.”
William James, Friendship, Life
“A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different side of himself to each of these different groups.”
William James, Life
“It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the scenery was there from that of his own.”
William James, Life
“The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.”
William James, Life
“The strenuous life tastes better.”
William James, Life
“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
William James, Life
“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.”
William James, Life
“Why should we think upon things that are lovely Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.”
William James, Life
“A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.”
William James, Life
“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.”
William James, Life
“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”
William James, Life
“If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.”
William James, Life
“Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction.”
William James, Life
“There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.”
William James, Life
“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.”
William James, Life
“Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.”
William James, Life
“Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task.”
William James, Life
“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”
William James, Life
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
William James, Life
“Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.”
William James, Life
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
William James, Life
“To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.”
William James, Life
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
William James, Life
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
William James, Life
“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”
― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James, Life, Intelligence/Wisdom
“Now, my dear little girl, you have come to an age when the inward life develops and when some people (and on the whole those who have most of a destiny) find that all is not a bed of roses. Among other things there will be waves of terrible sadness, which last sometimes for days; irritation, insensibility, etc., etc., which taken together form a melancholy. Now, painful as it is, this is sent to us for an enlightenment. It always passes off, and we learn about life from it, and we ought to learn a great many good things if we react on it right. (For instance, you learn how good a thing your home is, and your country, and your brothers, and you may learn to be more considerate of other people, who, you now learn, may have their inner weaknesses and sufferings, too.) Many persons take a kind of sickly delight in hugging it; and some sentimental ones may even be proud of it, as showing a fine sorrowful kind of sensibility. Such persons make a regular habit of the luxury of woe. That is the worst possible reaction on it. It is usually a sort of disease, when we get it strong, arising from the organism having generated some poison in the blood; and we mustn't submit to it an hour longer than we can help, but jump at every chance to attend to anything cheerful or comic or take part in anything active that will divert us from our mean, pining inward state of feeling. When it passes off, as I said, we know more than we did before. And we must try to make it last as short as time as possible. The worst of it often is that, while we are in it, we don't want to get out of it. We hate it, and yet we prefer staying in it—that is a part of the disease. If we find ourselves like that, we must make something ourselves to some hard work, make ourselves sweat, etc.; and that is the good way of reacting that makes of us a valuable character. The disease makes you think of yourself all the time; and the way out of it is to keep as busy as we can thinking of things and of other people—no matter what's the matter with our self.”
William James, Life, Goals
“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”
William James, Life, Goals
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
William James, Life, Goals
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
― William James, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
William James, Life, Goals
“Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.”
William Blake, Life
“The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Blake, Life
“He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.”
William Blake, Life
“Expect poison from the standing water.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Blake, Life
“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
William Blake, Life
“Exuberance is beauty.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Blake, Life
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”
William Blake, Life
“A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.”
William Blake, Life
“My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.”
William Blake, Life
“He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.”
William Blake, Life
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.”
― William Blake, Proverbs of Hell
William Blake, Life
“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Blake, Life
“Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are born to Sweet Delight,
Some are born to Endless Night.”
William Blake, Life
“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Blake, Life
“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”
William Blake, Life
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Blake, Life
“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
William Blake, Life
“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
William Blake, Life
“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Blake, Life
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Blake, Life
“Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.”
William Blake, Life
“Man was made for joy and woe
Then when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Joy and woe are woven fine
A clothing for the soul to bind.”
William Blake, Life
“This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.”
William Blake, Life, Truth
“And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.”
William Blake, Life, Love
"Never use the word 'cheap.' Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans—it’s up to you.”
Karl Lagerfeld, Life
"Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't."
Karl Lagerfeld, Life
"Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants."
Karl Lagerfeld, Life
"Trendy is the last stage before tacky."
Karl Lagerfeld, Life
"I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.”
Karl Lagerfeld, Life
"I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long."
Karl Lagerfeld, Life
"A sense of humor and a little lack of respect: that’s what you need to make a legend survive.” "Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke of myself."
Karl Lagerfeld, Life
"I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion."
Karl Lagerfeld, Life
"I’m not crazy to discuss fashion with men. I couldn’t care less about their opinion.”
Karl Lagerfeld, Life
"Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people...the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life...they are mean and they want to kill you."
Karl Lagerfeld, Life
“I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.”
Andrew Carnegie, Belief, Problems, Life
“East or West Home is best.”
― Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie, Life
“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”
Andrew Carnegie, Life
“If we truly care for others we need not be anxious about their feelings for us. Like draws to like.”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth
Andrew Carnegie, Life
“Among the conditions of life or the laws of Nature, some of which seem to us faulty, some apparently unjust and merciless, there are many that amaze us by their beauty and sweetness. Love of home, regardless of its character or location, certainly is one of these.”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth
Andrew Carnegie, Life
“Air castles are often within our grasp late in life, but then they charm not.”
― Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie, Life
“All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.”
Andrew Carnegie, Life
“I am as a speck of dust in the sun, and not even so much, in this solemn, mysterious, unknowable universe.”
Andrew Carnegie, Life
“And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.”
Andrew Carnegie, Life
“Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.”
Andrew Carnegie, Life
“Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.”
Andrew Carnegie, Life
“You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little.”
Andrew Carnegie, Life
“Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.”
Andrew Carnegie, Life
“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.”
Andrew Carnegie, Life
“It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.”
Andrew Carnegie, Life
“All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.”
Andrew Carnegie, Life
“A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
Andrew Carnegie, Life
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
Andrew Carnegie, Life
“That best portion of a good man's life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.”
― Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie, Life, Love, Kindness
“I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.”
Lady Gaga, Success, Life
“Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans to know it's okay.”
Lady Gaga, Success, Life
“This is the Manifesto of Little Monster:
There is something heroic about the way my fans operate their cameras. So precisely, so intricately and so proudly. Like Kings writing the history of their people, is their prolific nature that both creates and procures what will later be percieved as the kingdom. So the real truth about Lady Gaga fans, my little monsters, lies in this sentiment: They are the Kings. They are the Queens. They write the history of the kingdom and I am something of a devoted Jester. It is in the theory of perception that we have established our bond, or the lie I should say, for which we kill. We are nothing without our image. Without our projection. Without the spiritual hologram of who we percieve ourselves to be or rather to become, in the future.
When you are lonely,
I will be lonely too.
And this is the fame.”
Lady Gaga, Success, Life, Art
“cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.”
Lady Gaga, Love, Life
“That's Right Hunny-B.”
Lady Gaga, Life
“This is who the fuck I am.”
Lady Gaga, Life
“It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.”
Lady Gaga, Life
“For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.”
Lady Gaga, Life
“I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness.”
Lady Gaga, Life
“If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light.”
Lady Gaga, Life
“Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.”
Lady Gaga, Life
“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.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
Richard Bach, Goals, Life
“This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach, Goals, Life
“I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach, Goals, Life, Happiness
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach, Life
“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach, Life
“Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.”
Richard Bach, Life
“You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach, Life
“Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach, Life
“When you have come to the edge of all the light you have
And step into the darkness of the unknown
Believe that one of the two will happen to you
Either you'll find something solid to stand on
Or you'll be taught how to fly!”
Richard Bach, Life
“Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.”
Richard Bach, Life
“A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.”
― Richard Bach, One
Richard Bach, Life
“Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach, Life
“Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.”
― Richard Bach, One
Richard Bach, Life
“It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know.”
― Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit
Richard Bach, Life
“Heaven is not a place, and it is not a time. Heaven is being perfect. -And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach, Life
“Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach, Life
“Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
Richard Bach, Life
“Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach, Life
“The gull sees farthest who flies highest.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach, Life
“The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach, Life
“The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach, Life
“A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.”
Richard Bach, Life, Love
“Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we’re never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Strength, Life
“For me, life is about continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals, Life
“The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
“Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
“My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become Governor of California and stand in Madison Square Garden to speak on behalf of the President of the United States that is an immigrant’s dream. It is the American dream.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
“We made, actually, history, because it was the first time ever that doctors could prove that a lifelong Republican has a heart.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
“You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
“Marijuana… That’s not a drug, that’s a plant.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
“What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
“I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
If it can bleed, we can kill it.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
“There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
“The difference between those who adapted and those who didn’t, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
“It took many months in court, but the tabloid eventually published a total retraction and paid substantial damages in an out-of-court settlement. The money went to the Special Olympics in Great Britain.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
“My definition of living is to have excitement always; that’s the difference between living and existing.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
“I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
“If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
“But life is richer when we embrace the multitudes we all contain, even if we aren’t consistent and what we do doesn’t always make sense, even to us.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
“Where the mind goes the body will follow.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
“Though you may not realize it now, you’ll eventually recognize it when you take the same disciplined approach in tackling a particular challenge.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
“I did smoke a joint and I did inhale. The bottom line is that’s what it was in the ’70s, that’s what I did.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
“You can never find a candidate that will agree with everything you believe. Then you would just have a clone and that doesn’t exist.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life
“But no matter what you do in life, selling is a part of it.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Life, Business
“One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”
John Lennon, Life
“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”
John Lennon, Life
“Living is easy with eyes closed.”
John Lennon, Life
“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
John Lennon, Life
“When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream.”
John Lennon, Life
“It's weird not to be weird.”
John Lennon, Life
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
John Lennon, Life
“Nothing is real.”
John Lennon, Life
“How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?”
John Lennon, Life
“The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.”
John Lennon, Life
“Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.”
John Lennon, Life
“You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”
John Lennon, Life
“There are places I'll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all.”
John Lennon, Life
“There's nothing you can do that can't be done
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game.
It's easy.
Nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time.
It's easy.
Nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.”
John Lennon, Life
“I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.”
John Lennon, Life
“Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends.”
John Lennon, Life
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
John Lennon, Life, Nature
“We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on...”
John Lennon, Life, Nature
“If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal.”
John Lennon, Life, Love
“We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.”
John Lennon, Life, Love
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
John Lennon, Life, Happiness
“Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind,
Possessing and caressing me.
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes,
They call me on and on across the universe,
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box
They tumble blindly as they make their way
Across the universe
Sounds of laughter shades of love are
Ringing through my open ears inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a
Million suns, and calls me on and on
Across the universe.”
John Lennon, Life, Happiness, Love, Nature
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
John Lennon, Goals, Love, Life
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
John Lennon, Goals, Life
“When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.”
Alexander the Great, Life, Time
“Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.”
Alexander the Great, Life, Sex
“How slim the line is between genius and insanity and between determination and stubbornness.”
― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Richard Branson, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
“There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.”
Richard Branson, Work, Life, Goals
“Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.”
― Richard Branson, Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life
Richard Branson, Life
“The brave may not live forever – But the cautious do not live at all”
― Richard Branson, Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won't Teach You at Business School
Richard Branson, Life
“You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”
Richard Branson, Life
“Only a fool never changes his mind.”
― Richard Branson, Like A Virgin: Secrets They Won't Teach You at Business School
Richard Branson, Life
“Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.”
― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Richard Branson, Life
“The best motto to follow is ‘Nothing ventured; nothing gained’.”
― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Richard Branson, Life
“Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.”
― Richard Branson, The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership
Richard Branson, Life
“I believe that listening is one of the most important skills for any teacher, parent, leader, entrepreneur or, well, just about anyone who has a pulse.”
― Richard Branson, The Virgin Way: How to Listen, Learn, Laugh and Lead
Richard Branson, Life
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a ride!”
― Richard Branson, Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography
Richard Branson, Life
“Developing mental toughness isn’t just about being resilient – it’s about accessing your reserve tank when you think you just can’t go any further.”
― Richard Branson, Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography
Richard Branson, Life
“A touch of the jitters sharpens the mind, gets the adrenaline flowing and helps you to focus.”
Richard Branson, Life
“As soon as something stops being fun, I think it’s time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy. Waking up stressed and miserable is not a good way to live.”
― Richard Branson, Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons In Life
Richard Branson, Life, Happiness
“If you opt for a safe life, you will never know what it's like to win.”
― Richard Branson, Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life
Richard Branson, Life, Success
“There have been times when I could have succumbed to some form of bribe, or could have had my way by offering one. But ever since that night in Dover prison I have never been tempted to break my vow.. My Parents always drummed into me that all you have life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name you'll never be happy.”
― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Richard Branson, Life, Success, Happiness
“Experiment! Meet new people. That's better than any college education. You will find the unexpected everywhere as you go through life. By adventuring about, you become accustomed to the unexpected.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
“Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
“Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Life
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Life
“Character is destiny.”
Amelia Earhart, Life
“There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.”
Amelia Earhart, Life
“Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.”
Amelia Earhart, Life
“There is more to life than being a passenger.”
Amelia Earhart, Life
“Life is worthwhile in itself.”
Amelia Earhart, Life
“The more one does,the more one can do.”
Amelia Earhart, Life
“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
Amelia Earhart, Life
“You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky.”
Amelia Earhart, Life
“Nobody likes a clown at midnight.”
Stephen King, Life
“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
― Stephen King, The Shining
Stephen King, Life
“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.
Or you don't.”
― Stephen King, The Stand
Stephen King, Life
“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
Stephen King, Life
“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.”
― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis
Stephen King, Life
“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
Stephen King, Life
“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
Stephen King, Life
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
Stephen King, Life
“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― Stephen King, The Stand
Stephen King, Life, Belief
“Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.”
Morgan Freeman, Life
“If I could narrate your life I would, especially Jose's.”
Morgan Freeman, Life
“Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.”
Morgan Freeman, Life
“Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.”
Morgan Freeman, Life
“I never said any of those quotes...”
Morgan Freeman, Life
“Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen, that stillness becomes a radiance.”
Morgan Freeman, Life, Goals
“If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.”
Morgan Freeman, Life, Goals, Death
“Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.”
Mao Zedong, Life
“People who live at subsistence level want first things to be put first. They are not particularly interested in freedom of religion, freedom of the press, free enterprise as we understand it, or the secret ballot. Their needs are more basic: land, tools, fertilizers, something better than rags for their children, houses to replace their shacks, freedom from police oppression, medical attention, primary schools.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Mao Tse-Tung On Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Zedong, Life
“Historical experience is written in iron and blood.”
― Mao Tse-tung, On Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Zedong, Life
“I am a lone monk walking the world with a leaky umbrella.”
Mao Zedong, Life
“Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.”
Mao Zedong, Life
“The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.”
― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong, Life
“You can't be a revolutionary if you don't eat chilies.”
Mao Zedong, Life
“History is a symptom of our disease.”
Mao Zedong, Life
“Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.”
Che Guevara, Life
“...I also know - and this won't alter the course of history or your personal view of me - that you will die with a clenched fist and a tense jaw, the epitome of hatred and struggle, because you are not a symbol (some inanimate example) but a genuine member of the society to be destroyed; the spirit of the beehive speaks through your mouth and motivates your actions. You are as useful as I am, but you are not aware of how useful your contribution is to the society that sacrifices you.”
Che Guevara, Life
“It’s a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.”
Che Guevara, Life
“This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.”
― Ernesto Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
Che Guevara, Life
“What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.”
Che Guevara, Life
“The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.”
― Ernesto Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
Che Guevara, Life
“I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
Che Guevara, Life
“The best form of saying is being.”
Che Guevara, Life
“I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”
Che Guevara, Life
“Let the world change you and you can change the world.”
Che Guevara, Life
“And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.”
Che Guevara, Life, Wealth
“After graduation, due to special circumstances and perhaps also to my character, I began to travel throughout America, and I became acquainted with all of it. Except for Haiti and Santo Domingo, I have visited, to some extent, all the other Latin American countries. Because of the circumstances in which I traveled, first as a student and later as a doctor, I came into close contact with poverty, hunger and disease; with the inability to treat a child because of lack of money; with the stupefaction provoked by the continual hunger and punishment, to the point that a father can accept the loss of a son as an unimportant accident, as occurs often in the downtrodden classes of our American homeland. And I began to realize at that time that there were things that were almost as important to me as becoming famous for making a significant contribution to medical science: I wanted to help those people.”
Che Guevara, Goals, Life
“I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.”
Che Guevara, Goals, Life
“I’m sorry I let everybody down. I’m fighting just to pay my bills. I don’t have the stomach for this anymore… I don’t have the desire for it. I feel bad for the people … I wish they could get their money back.”
- Mike Tyson speaking not only about the realities of a career in boxing, but with life itself.
Mike Tyson, Life
“These pigeons have been living with each other for 10 or 15 years, but when I throw feed down, they kill each other to get it, and it’s the same with the fighters. We love and respect each other…but we need that money.”
- Every living thing can coexist with each other, but to survive, we must always compete with each other. This is a harsh but all too real truth according to Mike Tyson.
Mike Tyson, Life
“If they don’t have that extreme addict personality, you can never understand how a guy can blow 300 or 400 million dollars. If I have to live at the top of the world, I also have to live at the bottom of the ocean. I don’t know how to live in the middle of life.”
- Mike Tyson expressing his views on lifestyle and money: He would never be content living a normal middle class life.
Mike Tyson, Life, Wealth
“Well, I do think there’s a good framework for thinking. It is physics. You know, the sort of first principles reasoning. What I mean by that is boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there, as opposed to reasoning by analogy. Through most of our life, we get through life by reasoning by analogy, which essentially means copying what other people do with slight variations. And you have to do that. Otherwise, mentally, you wouldn’t be able to get through the day. But when you want to do something new, you have to apply the physics approach.”
Elon Musk, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom, Science, Truth, Life
“[Mars] would just be the greatest adventure. Ever. And very exciting. And I think we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can’t just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.”
Elon Musk, Goals, Life
“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Life
“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Life
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Life
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Life
“Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Life
“Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Life
“I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Life
“I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals, and that there are deep wounds in it. My dear, I have seen it bleeding.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Life
“He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Life
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!”
A Tale of Two Cities, Life
“Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Life
“Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Life
“The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Life
“A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Life
“Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Life, Success
“Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Life, Love
“Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Life, Death
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
John Wooden, Goals, Life
"What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player."
John Wooden, Life
"You can lose when you outscore somebody in a game. And you can win when you’re outscored."
John Wooden, Life
"It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit."
John Wooden, Life
"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."
John Wooden, Life
"You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."
John Wooden, Life
"The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching."
John Wooden, Life
"Nothing will work unless you do."
John Wooden, Life
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
John Wooden, Life
"Failing to prepare is preparing to fail."
John Wooden, Life
"If you are afraid to fail, you will never do the things you are capable of doing."
John Wooden, Life
"We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else."
John Wooden, Life
"The best competition I have is against myself to become better."
John Wooden, Life
“Television is not real life. In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.”
Television often lulls us into believing that success can be had by anyone without much hardwork, that business and making money is exciting, and so on. The real truth is that a vast majority of people never achieve success no matter how hard they try, and business and jobs can be soul crushing. It takes a lot of luck and hardwork to succeed in life and to escape one's mundane existence.
Bill Gates, Life
“We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.”
Constant self improvement is a must in life. It' important to have people in our lives who will give us honest and constructive feedback. People who constantly praise you can actually be detrimental to your life.
Bill Gates, Life
“Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast, or a bridge player."
We can only improve so much by ourselves. This is the reason why we need a coach or a mentor in our life. Coaches and Mentors can give us knowledge that we don't know ourselves. They can also connect us to the right people.
Bill Gates, Life
“The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It’s harmful.”
Pessimistic people do more harm than good when they spread their doomsday message. It' important to stay positive and continue to think that even seemingly unsolvable problems can one day be solved.
Bill Gates, Life
"It’s not about what it is it’s about what it can become."
Dr Seuss, Life
"You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So…get on your way!"
Dr Seuss, Life
"Oh the things you can find, if you don’t stay behind!"
Dr Seuss, Life
"You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in."
Dr Seuss, Life
"To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world."
Dr Seuss, Life
"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory."
Dr Seuss, Life
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
Dr Seuss, Life
"You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut."
Dr Seuss, Life
"How did it get so late so soon?"
Dr Seuss, Life
"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."
Dr Seuss, Life
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose."
Dr Seuss, Life
"A person’s a person no matter how small."
Dr Seuss, Life
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not."
Dr Seuss, Life
"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive that is you-er than you!"
Dr Seuss, Life
"Step with care and great tact. And remember that life’s a great balancing act."
Dr Seuss, Life, Goals
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind."
Dr Seuss, Life, Goals
"Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened."
Dr Seuss, Life, Goals
“In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is—I will form good habits and become their slave.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Success, Life, Goals
“I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Success, Life, Goals
“Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Success, Problems, Life
“Which two, among a thousand wise men, will define success in the same words; yet failure is always described but one way. Failure is man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Success, Problems, Goals
“As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Life
“Experience is comparable to fashion; an action that proved successful today will be unworkable and impractical tomorrow. Only principles endure.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Life
“Manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Life
“Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Life
“There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Life
“Only a habit can subdue another habit.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Life
“My actions are ruled by appetite, passion, prejudice, greed, love, fear, environment, habit, and the worst of these tyrants is habit. Therefore, if I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits. My bad habits must be destroyed and new furrows prepared for good seed.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Life, Goals
“My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear and now I recognize this secret mined from the depths of all courageous hearts. Now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror to an ant of equanimity. I will act now.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Life, Goals
“If I waste today I destroy the last page of my life.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Life, Goals
“for when an act becomes easy through constant repetition it becomes a pleasure to perform and if it is a pleasure to perform it is man’s nature to perform it often. When I perform it often it becomes a habit and I become its slave and since it is a good habit this is my will. Today I begin a new life.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Life, Goals
“The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Life, Nature, Intelligence/Wisdom, Courage, Truth, Goals
“If we're stuck on one world, we're limited to a single case; we don't know what else is possible. Then—like an art fancier familiar only with Fayoum tomb paintings, a dentist who knows only molars, a philosopher trained merely in NeoPlatonism, a linguist who has studied only Chinese, or a physicist whose knowledge of gravity is restricted to falling bodies on Earth—our perspective is foreshortened, our insights narrow, our predictive abilities circumscribed. By contrast, when we explore other worlds, what once seemed the only way a planet could be turns out to be somewhere in the middle range of a vast spectrum of possibilities. When we look at those other worlds, we begin to understand what happens when we have too much of one thing or too little of another. We learn how a planet can go wrong.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Life
“We tend not to be especially critical when presented with evidence that seems to confirm our prejudices.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Life
“Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Life
“Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Life
“The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Life
“The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Life
“Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe which dwarfs -- in time, in space, and in potential -- the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Life
“We’re Johnny-come-latelies. We live in the cosmic boondocks. We emerged from microbes and muck. Apes are our cousins. Our thoughts and feelings are not fully under our own control. There may be much smarter and very different beings elsewhere. And on top of all this, we’re making a mess of our planet and becoming a danger to ourselves.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Life
“The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds - to say nothing of stars or galaxies - humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Nature, Life
“A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Nature, Life
“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Nature, Life
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Nature, Life, Goals
“Ann Druyan suggests an experiment: Look back again at the pale blue dot of the preceding chapter. Take a good long look at it. Stare at the dot for any length of time and then try to convince yourself that God created the whole Universe for one of the 10 million or so species of life that inhabit that speck of dust. Now take it a step further: Imagine that everything was made just for a single shade of that species, or gender, or ethnic or religious subdivision. If this doesn’t strike you as unlikely, pick another dot. Imagine it to be inhabited by a different form of intelligent life. They, too, cherish the notion of a God who has created everything for their benefit. How seriously do you take their claim?”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Belief, Life
“I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.”
Erma Bombeck, Life
“It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.”
Erma Bombeck, Life
“...I remember thinking how often we look, but never see...we listen, but never hear...we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.”
― Erma Bombeck, A Marriage Made in Heaven: Or Too Tired for an Affair
Erma Bombeck, Life
“There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.”
Erma Bombeck, Life
“Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.”
Erma Bombeck, Life
“No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.”
Erma Bombeck, Life
“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”
Erma Bombeck, Life
“Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?”
Erma Bombeck, Life
“Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.”
Erma Bombeck, Life
“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”
Erma Bombeck, Life
“When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.”
Erma Bombeck, Life
“Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.”
Erma Bombeck, Life, Courage
“The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger”
― Margaret Sanger, Woman and the New Race
Margaret Sanger, Life
“Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom—we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.”
Margaret Sanger, Goals, Life
“I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.”
Wendell Berry, Death, Life
“Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.”
Wendell Berry, Death, Life, Love
“If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.”
Wendell Berry, Work, Life
“One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.”
Wendell Berry, Nature, Life
“The world doesn't stop because you are in love or in mourning or in need of time to think. And so when I have thought I was in my story or in charge of it, I really have only been on the edge of it.”
Wendell Berry, Life
“Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.”
Wendell Berry, Life
“The language that reveals also obscures.”
Wendell Berry, Life
“A man's life is always dealing with permanence, that is the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.”
Wendell Berry, Life
“Beauty . . . cannot be interpreted. It is not an empirically verifiable fact; it is not a quantity.”
Wendell Berry, Life
“The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.”
Wendell Berry, Life
“...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.”
Wendell Berry, Life
“It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.”
Wendell Berry, Life
“A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.”
Wendell Berry, Life
“The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.”
Wendell Berry, Life
“The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.”
Wendell Berry, Life
“The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it or to escape what is bad in it but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.”
Wendell Berry, Life
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.”
Wendell Berry, Life
“After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.”
Wendell Berry, Life
“If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.”
Wendell Berry, Life
“Eating is an agricultural act.”
Wendell Berry, Life
“Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.”
Wendell Berry, Life
“I had changed, and the sign of it was only that my own death seemed to me by far the least important thing in my life.”
Wendell Berry, Life, Death
“Never underestimate the power of a small, dedicated group of people to change the world; indeed, that is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead, Life
“You are totally unique. Just like everyone else.”
Margaret Mead, Life
“I'm unique just like everyone else.”
Margaret Mead, Life
“What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.”
Margaret Mead, Life
“It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.”
Margaret Mead, Life
“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.”
Margaret Mead, Life
“The notion that we are products of our environment is our greatest sin; we are products of our choices."
Margaret Mead, Life
“Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.”
Margaret Mead, Life
“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”
Margaret Mead, Life
“There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves.”
Margaret Mead, Life
“Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.”
Margaret Mead, Life
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”
Margaret Mead, Life
“Take care of your gear and your gear will take care of you.”
― Jocko Willink, Marc's Mission: Way of the Warrior Kid
Jocko Willink, Life
“PRINCIPLE Ego clouds and disrupts everything: the planning process, the ability to take good advice, and the ability to accept constructive criticism. It can even stifle someone’s sense of self-preservation. Often, the most difficult ego to deal with is your own.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Life
“Hesitation allows the moment to pass, the opportunity to be lost, the enemy to get the upper hand. Hesitation turns into cowardice. It stops us from moving forward, from taking initiative, from executing what we know we must. Hesitation defeats us. So we must defeat it.”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
Jocko Willink, Life
“The shortcut is a lie. The hack doesn’t get you there. And if you want to take the easy road, it won’t take you to where you want to be: Stronger. Smarter. Faster. Healthier. Better. FREE.”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
Jocko Willink, Life
“That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: “Good.”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
Jocko Willink, Life
“Is this what I want to be? This? Is this all I’ve got—is this everything I can give? Is this going to be my life? Do I accept that?”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
Jocko Willink, Life
“There is no easy way.
There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
Jocko Willink, Life
“Don’t fight stress. Embrace it. Turn it on itself. Use it to make yourself sharper and more alert. Use it to make you think and learn and get better and smarter and more effective. Use the stress to make you a better you.”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
Jocko Willink, Life
“There is no growth in the comfort zone.”
― Jocko Willink, The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Life
“It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Life
“We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals, Life
“As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off. Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance. Having a sense of humor saves you.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals, Life
“Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living
is the one you are living.
When you can see that,
you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open
where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals, Life
“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals, Life
“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals, Life
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals, Life
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals, Nature
“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”
Joseph Campbell, Opportunities, Power, Life
“I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“We save the world by being alive ourselves.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“A bit of advice
Given to a young Native American
At the time of his initiation:
As you go the way of life,
You will see a great chasm. Jump.
It is not as wide as you think.”
“You enter the forest
at the darkest point,
where there is no path.
Where there is a way or path,
it is someone else's path.
You are not on your own path.
If you follow someone else's way,
you are not going to realize
your potential.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“Regrets are illuminations come too late.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
Joseph Campbell, Life
“The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.”
Joseph Campbell, Life, Intelligence/Wisdom
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.”
Marcus Garvey, Life
“great principles, great ideals know no nationality.”
Marcus Garvey, Life
“You at this time can only be destroyed by yourselves, from within and not from without. You have reached the point where the victory is to be won from within and can only be lost from within.”
Marcus Garvey, Life, Success
“Of course, to be a mother and a housewife is a vocation of a very high kind. But I simply felt that it was not the whole of my vocation. I knew that I also wanted a career. A phrase that Irene Ward, MP for Tynemouth, and I often used was that ‘while the home must always be the centre of one’s life, it should not be the boundary of one’s ambitions’.”
Margaret Thatcher, Sex, Goals, Life
“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”
Margaret Thatcher, Life
“The facts of life are conservative.”
Margaret Thatcher, Life
“Well, there’s a lot to react against!”
Margaret Thatcher, Life
“They might have beaten us at our national sport, but we managed to beat them at their national sport twice in the 20th century. [Replying to Kenneth Clarke, who said, "Isn't it terrible about losing to the Germans at our national sport?" when England lost to Germany in the 1990 FIFA World Cup Semi-final.]”
Margaret Thatcher, Life
“I wasn't lucky, I deserved it.”
Margaret Thatcher, Life
“I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.”
Margaret Thatcher, Life
“Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they'll become... habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny.”
Margaret Thatcher, Life
“I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.”
Margaret Thatcher, Life
“If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing.”
Margaret Thatcher, Life, Success
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
Robert Frost, Goals, Life
“The middle of the road is where the white line is—and that’s the worst place to drive.”
Robert Frost, Life
“Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.”
Robert Frost, Life
“We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”
Robert Frost, Life
“How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?”
Robert Frost, Life
“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”
Robert Frost, Life
“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”
Robert Frost, Life
“I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.”
Robert Frost, Life
“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”
Robert Frost, Life
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
Robert Frost, Life
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost, Life
“The best way out is always through.”
Robert Frost, Life
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost, Life
"All it takes is one moment of courage, one step forward, to change your life."
Mel Robbins, Courage, Life
“Do it anyway. Part of the reason why you don’t have what you want in your life is because when you don’t feel like doing it, you don’t do it. Your life only gets easier when you do the hard things all the time. Push through your resignation and do it.”
Mel Robbins, Goals, Life
“Every day you have a choice. You can turn toward the pull of your dreams or argue against it. Fighting that desire inside you and telling yourself, It will never happen for me create so much tension in your life.”
Mel Robbins, Goals, Life
“Waiting around for something to change will slowly kill you.”
Mel Robbins, Life
“Perspective changes everything. What you take for granted someone else considers a luxury. Spend a little extra time being grateful for what you have today.”
Mel Robbins, Life
"Destiny shuffles the card but we must play the game."
Mel Robbins, Life
"Fun fact: A lot of what weighs you down isn't yours to carry."
Mel Robbins, Life
“Your doubts create mountains. Your actions move them.”
Mel Robbins, Life
"There's a big difference between how you feel and what you do."
Mel Robbins, Life
"You may say you fear change, but lack of change is why you feel so blah."
Mel Robbins, Life
"Exercise is generally not fun, nor comfortable."
Mel Robbins, Life
"When we're stressed, we procrastinate. That's when we're most susceptible to distraction."
Mel Robbins, Life
"If you don't start doing the things you don't feel like doing, you will wake up one year from now in exactly the same place."
Mel Robbins, Life
“Most of us don’t even realize how often we hesitate because we’ve done it so often that it’s become a habit.”
Mel Robbins, Life
“Negative thoughts fry your nervous system.”
Mel Robbins, Life
“It’s not because things are difficult that we don’t dare. It’s because we don’t dare that things are difficult.”
Mel Robbins, Life
“If you can’t value yourself, you will look for validation from other people.”
Mel Robbins, Life
“Using the Rule strengthens your belief that you do have the ability to control your own fate—because you are proving it to yourself one push at a time.”
Mel Robbins, Life
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
Mel Robbins, Life
“You’re looking in the wrong mirror when you look for your worth in other people’s approval.”
Mel Robbins, Life
“When you stop making yourself wrong for how you’re feeling, you’ll immediately feel better.”
Mel Robbins, Life
“Getting what you want never feels quite like you think it will.”
Mel Robbins, Life
“Regardless of how you learned to beat yourself up, the bottom line is if it makes you miserable, you have a responsibility to change it.”
Mel Robbins, Life
“You have no idea how much easier things could be if you stopped being so hard on yourself.”
Mel Robbins, Life
“At the end of the day, you are going to need to do more than think if you want to change your life.”
Mel Robbins, Life
“If you don’t learn how to untangle your feelings from your actions, you’ll never unlock your true potential.”
Mel Robbins, Life
“The most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about.”
Mel Robbins, Life
“Small things are not small at all. They are the most important things of all. And they add up.”
Mel Robbins, Life
“If you find yourself riddled with self-doubt, remember that the world didn’t say, 'You can’t have this.' You did.”
Mel Robbins, Life
“You’ll never feel like doing what you must do.”
Mel Robbins, Life
“There is only one you. And there will never be another one."
Mel Robbins, Life
“Procrastination is not a form of laziness at all. It’s a coping mechanism for stress.”
Mel Robbins, Life
"It’s not the big moves that change everything—it’s the smallest ones in your everyday life that do.”
Mel Robbins, Life
“I may not be perfect, but I am worthy.”
Mel Robbins, Life
"Passion is not a thing. It's a state of mind."
Mel Robbins, Life
“Every phase of your life and career will require a different you. Using the Rule, you’ll become the person you’re meant to become in this next phase of your life.”
Mel Robbins, Life
"You need to hear this loud and clear: No one is coming. It is up to you."
Mel Robbins, Life
"You are one decision away from a completely different life."
Mel Robbins, Life
"There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you."
Mel Robbins, Life
"Your feelings don't matter. The only thing that matters is what you do."
Mel Robbins, Life
“When you replace that self-doubt and self-criticism that drags you down with self-acceptance and self-love that lifts you up, your life will change.”
Mel Robbins, Life, Love
"The time is now. Stop hitting the 'snooze' button on your life."
Mel Robbins, Life, Time
"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world."
Wayne Dyer, Love, Life
"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"If you don’t make peace with your past, it will keep showing up in your present."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that’s what’s inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"I am thankful to all those who said no. It’s because of them, I did it myself."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others."
Wayne Dyer, Life
"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."
Thomas Edison, Life, Goals
"Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."
Thomas Edison, Opportunities, Life
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
Thomas Edison, Opportunities, Life
"What you are will show in what you do."
Thomas Edison, Life
"Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth."
Thomas Edison, Life
"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."
Thomas Edison, Life
"There is no substitute for hard work."
Thomas Edison, Life
“Life is a salad and the Lord is my vinaigrette.”
Theo Von, Life, Belief
“When I see somebody in a Prius, sure, you drive a Prius and you get good gas mileage, but you probably feel like you drive a Prius.”
Theo Von, Life
“Nothing changes if nothing changes.”
Theo Von, Life
“They're just jokes, people. They can't all be funny.”
Theo Von, Life
“Isn’t it nice that the sun doesn’t remember what you did yesterday? It just knows today's a new day.”
Theo Von, Life
“In Louisiana, you can drive when you're 15 – you could get your driving permit. I remember, during driver's ed, I fell asleep at the wheel one day. I was tired.
The guy shook me and switched and said he was getting into the driver's seat. I didn't fail, so I guess you can fall asleep occasionally. It's Louisiana.”
Theo Von, Life
“If you ain't first, you're last.”
Theo Von, Life
“As soon as I was tall enough, my dad used to let me drive him 60 miles or 70 miles to work. That was pretty fun.
My dad was really old. At the time, he was 82 years old. He said, 'Can you drive?' and I said 'Yes.' I guess I didn't find it to be that crazy.”
Theo Von, Life
“I never met a man that I didn't like.”
Will Rogers, Life
“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.”
Will Rogers, Life
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
Will Rogers, Life
“The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.”
Will Rogers, Life
“We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.”
Will Rogers, Life
“Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.”
Will Rogers, Life, Goals
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
Will Rogers, Life, Time
“It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.”
Will Rogers, Life
“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”
Will Rogers, Life
“You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.”
Will Rogers, Life
“If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?”
Will Rogers, Life
“It is better for some one to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
Will Rogers, Life
“Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know.”
Will Rogers, Life
“If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”
Will Rogers, Life
“It's not what we don't know that hurts. It's what we know that ain't so.”
Will Rogers, Life
“Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“It is not worthwhile to leave this world without having had a little fun in life.”
Frida Kahlo, Life, Happiness
“Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“You deserve the best, the very best because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“You are all the combinations of numbers of life.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.”
Frida Kahlo, Life, Intelligence/Wisdom
“I am nothing but a “small damned” part of a revolutionary movement. Always revolutionary never dead, never useless.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“Loyalty is important to me. Can you be loyal?”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“I was a child who went about in a world of colors… My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“Everyone’s opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“To trap one’s self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“Years. Waiting with anguish hidden away, my spine broken, and the immense glance, footless through the vast path… Carrying on my life enclosed in steel.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“Through the round numbers and the colored nerves the stars are made and the worlds are sounds.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“I am my own muse; I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“There is nothing left everything revolves.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“So forgotten and so firm. Snail shells and the bride-doll, is yours too ~ I mean, it is you.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“I don’t need rescuing, Diego.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“I just want your serious opinion.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“They say never trust a limping dog or the tears of a woman.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“Don’t build a wall around your own suffering, it may devour you from the inside.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“No place in life is sadder than an empty bed.”
Frida Kahlo, Life
“But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”
David Hume, Life
“When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.”
David Hume, Life, Happiness
“Let these generous sentiments be supposed ever so weak; let them be insufficient to move even a hand or finger of our body.”
David Hume, Life
“Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.”
David Hume, Life
“It is to restrain [others’] selfishness that men… distinguish between their own goods and those of others.”
David Hume, Life
“All the philosophy… in the world, and all the religion, which is nothing but a species of philosophy, will never be able to carry us beyond the usual course of experience.”
David Hume, Intelligence/Wisdom, Belief, Life
“Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.”
David Hume, Life
“It is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.”
David Hume, Life
“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; each mind perceives a different beauty.”
David Hume, Life
“Nature has pointed out a mixed kind of life as most suitable to the human race, and secretly admonished them to allow none of these biases to draw too much, so as to incapacitate them for other occupations and entertainments.”
― ‘An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding’.
David Hume, Nature, Life
“If you will do the things others won’t do, then some day, you will have the life others won’t have.”
Dave Ramsey, Life, Goals
“Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won’t change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.”
Dave Ramsey, Life
“Humpty Dumpty is hard to put back together—and so is trust.”
Dave Ramsey, Life
“Parents who let teens run around with unearned adult freedoms are naive and stupid.”
Dave Ramsey, Freedom, Life
“Don’t medicate dysfunction with spending. No amount of stuff will get rid of guilt.”
Dave Ramsey, Finance, Wealth, Life
“It is human nature to want it and want it now; it is also a sign of immaturity. Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.”
Dave Ramsey, Life
“Life is not a snapshot, it’s a filmstrip.”
Dave Ramsey, Life
“I learned early on that work creates discipline, and when you have discipline in your life, you are a healthier person.”
Dave Ramsey, Work, Life
“The good thing about principles is that they make life easy. I have heard it said that when someone bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.”
Dave Ramsey, Life
“The accountability of a group environment causes people to change their behaviors.”
Dave Ramsey, Life
“A little bit of controlled pain when you’re six will change your life when you’re thirty-six.”
Dave Ramsey, Life
“Repetition, volume, and longevity will twist and turn a myth, a lie, into a commonly accepted way of doing things.”
Dave Ramsey, Life
“Every person falls down at some point. Successful people choose to get back up!”
Dave Ramsey, Life, Success
“Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me.”
Dave Ramsey, Life
“There’s not a party, a congressman, a senator, etc. elected that will fix your life. You have to fix your life.”
Dave Ramsey, Government, Life, Goals
“Where you are today is the sum of every choice you’ve ever made. If you don’t like where you are, start making different choices!”
Dave Ramsey, Life, Goals
“Good things that cannot be calculated or quantified are set in motion in your life and in your finances when you give.”
Dave Ramsey, Finance, Life
“No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.”
Dave Ramsey, Government, Finance, Life
“Stupid is not illegal.”
Dave Ramsey, Life
"It is better to be the hammer than the anvil"
Letter to a friend
Emily Dickinson, Life
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
Letter to Thomas Higginson
Emily Dickinson, Life
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes,
The nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs"
Poem – After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Emily Dickinson, Life
"Luck is not chance, it’s toil fortune’s expensive smile is earned."
Poem – Luck is not chance
Emily Dickinson, Success, Life
"I’m nobody, who are you?"
Poem – I’m nobody, who are you?
Emily Dickinson, Life
"My friends are my estate
I argue thee that love is life and life hath immortality"
Poem – That I did always love
Emily Dickinson, Friendship, Wealth, Love, Life
"Forever is composed of nows."
Poem – Forever is composed of nows
Emily Dickinson, Life
"Tis harder knowing it is due,
Than knowing it is here."
Poem – While I was fearing it it came
Emily Dickinson, Life
"It might be lonelier
Without the loneliness"
Poem – It might be lonelier
Emily Dickinson, Life
"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."
Poem – That it will never come again
Emily Dickinson, Life
"A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day."
Poem – A word is dead
Emily Dickinson, Life
“There are three constants in life – change, choice and principles.”
Stephen Covey, Life
“If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.”
Stephen Covey, Life
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand. Most people listen with the intent to reply.”
Stephen Covey, Life
“Accountability breeds response-ability.”
Stephen Covey, Life
“He who has a why can deal with any what or how.”
Stephen Covey, Life
“Highly proactive people don’t blame circumstances, conditions or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior of their own conscious choice.”
Stephen Covey, Life
“The only thing that endures over time is the Law of the Farm. You must prepare the ground, plant the seed, cultivate, and water it if you expect to reap the harvest.”
Stephen Covey, Life
“You can change the fruit without changing the root.”
Stephen Covey, Life
“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else trie to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”
Stephen Covey, Life
“Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.”
Stephen Covey, Life
“What you do has greater impact than what you say.”
Stephen Covey, Life
“Once you have a clear picture of your priorities that is values, goals, and high leverage activities, organize your life around them.”
Stephen Covey, Goals, Life
“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control – myself.”
Stephen Covey, Goals, Life
“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”
Stephen Covey, Life
“Our character is basically a composite of our habits because they are consistent. Often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.”
Stephen Covey, Life
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
Stephen Covey, Life
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen Covey, Life
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, non apologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.”
Stephen Covey, Life, Courage
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Stephen Covey, Life
“I have my own life. And I am stronger than you know.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Strength
“She is like a cat in the dark And then she is the darkness She rules her life like a fine skylark And when the sky is starless. All your life you’ve never seen a woman taken by the wind would you stay if she promised you heaven? Will you ever win?
Stevie Nicks, Sex, Life
“Time makes you bolder, children get older. I’m getting older, too.”
Stevie Nicks, Time, Courage, Life
“You live by the light of the moon, and I live by desire.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“A wound gets worse when it’s treated with neglect.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“Thunder only happens when it’s raining...”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“The loneliness of a one night stand is hard to take.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“If I had my life to live over, I would never dream.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Goals
“I’m not a witch, I just like Halloween, and I thought that blondes look skinnier in black.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“When you’re hurt or angry, let go by tapping into your humbleness. You want people to remember you for your grace.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Anger and Fighting
“My life is a testament to believing that if you want something you can make it happen.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Goals
“Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“Klonopin is a horrible, dangerous drug.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
Klonopin – more deadly than coke.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“In comparison to the eight years I spent on Klonopin, the cocaine and brandy wins hands down. If you are ever in a drugstore and they put you on Klonopin, run out of there screaming.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“I’m timeless, I got that Dickensian, London street-urchin look in high school. I’ll never be in style, but I’ll always be different.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I’ll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“I hope that my niece in 20 years is going to say to me, ‘Aunt Stevie, what was with your hair?’”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“For 70 nights, right across America, I’ve been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we’ve been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn’t know. We’re friends now but we can’t forget what happened between us.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Music, Friendship
“Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Music, Goals
“If you’re an unattractive girl who’s trying to be beautiful with Botox, forget it. If you are a beautiful girl who’s trying to be beautiful with Botox, you will look like you’re angry all the time.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“Rock and menopause do not mix.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Music
“I had Botox and I hated it. For four long months, I looked like a different person.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don’t want to go to PTA meetings.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Goals
“If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don’t make it a rock star.”
Stevie Nicks, Love, Life, Music
“It’s really hard when you break up with somebody, or somebody breaks up with you, and you’re in this band; guess who you have to see in the next day in the hotel in the breakfast room? That person.”
Stevie Nicks, Love, Life, Music
“I don’t love the years going by. I’d just as soon stay forty-five. But it’s OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Time
“If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.”
Stevie Nicks, Life
“There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”
Milton Friedman, Life
“I am told by people all the time that they simply do not have time to read and listen to all the material they have purchased or subscribed to. But time is democratic and just. Everyone has the same amount.
When I choose to read with my mid morning coffee break and you choose to blather about trivia with friends, when I choose to study for an hour sitting on my backyard deck at day's end but you choose to watch a TIVO'd American Idol episode, we reveal much.
When someone says he does not have the time to apply himself to acquiring the know-how required to create sufficient value for his stated desires, he is a farmer surrounded by ripe fruit and vegetables, whole grains, and a herd of cattle on his own property who dies of starvation, unable to organize his time and discipline himself to eat.”
Dan Kennedy, Life, Time, Intelligence/Wisdom
“Few people are attracted to whiners, complainers, excuse-makers, wimps. Hanging out with a victim is not appealing to most reasonably sane people.
Who wants to be around or involved with an emotional cripple? The person in the victim shirt tends to wear out his welcome early. As he should.
His thinking, his beliefs, and his behavior are even more repellant to money and wealth than they to other people.”
Dan Kennedy, Life, Wealth
“There are three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.”
Dan Kennedy, Life
“You’re not everything you could be, and you know it.”
Jordan Peterson, Life
“The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. Status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.”
Jordan Peterson, Life, Goals, Power
“If you aren’t moving forward in your life there is some idea, mode of action, or habit you’re so in love with you won’t let go of it.”
Jordan Peterson, Life
“You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with (and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse).”
Jordan Peterson, Life, Goals, Happiness
“Face the demands of life voluntarily. Respond to a challenge, instead of bracing for catastrophe.”
Jordan Peterson, Life, Goals
“Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, ‘He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.’”
Jordan Peterson, Life, Goals, Power
“When you are visited by chaos and swallowed up; when nature curses you or someone you love with illness; or when tyranny rends asunder something of value that you have built, it is salutary to know the rest of the story. All of that misfortune is only the bitter half of the tale of existence, without taking note of the heroic element of redemption or the nobility of the human spirit requiring a certain responsibility to shoulder. We ignore that addition to the story at our peril, because life is so difficult that losing sight of the heroic part of existence could cost us everything.”
Jordan Peterson, Life
“You should be better than you are, but it’s not because you’re worse than other people. It’s because you’re not everything you should be.”
Jordan Peterson, Life
“You need to consider the future And think, ‘What might my life look like if I were caring for myself properly?’”
Jordan Peterson, Goals, Life
“If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.”
Jordan Peterson, Life
“If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards. And they will push you, and push you, and push you, until you fall off a cliff.”
Jordan Peterson, Life
“Can you imagine yourself in 10 years if instead of avoiding the things you know you should do, you actually did them every single day—that’s powerful.”
Jordan Peterson, Life
“It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.”
Jordan Peterson, Life
“You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.”
Jordan Peterson, Life
“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).”
Jordan Peterson, Life, Belief
“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).”
Jordan Peterson, Life, Love
“The way that you make people resilient is by voluntarily exposing them to things that they are afraid of and that makes them uncomfortable.”
Jordan Peterson, Life
“The light that you discover in your life is proportionate to the amount of the darkness you are willing to forthrightly confront.”
Jordan Peterson, Life
“If your life is not what it could be, try telling the truth. If you cling desperately to an ideology or wallow in nihilism, try telling the truth. If you feel weak and rejected, and desperate, and confused, try telling the truth. In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.”
Jordan Peterson, Truth, Life
“The secret to your existence is right in front of you. And it manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but you’re avoiding.”
Jordan Peterson, Life
“Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth. That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.”
Jordan Peterson, Goals, Life
“Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.”
Jordan Peterson, Life
“You should be careful, therefore, to live your life fully, and marriage and children and grandchildren, and all the trouble and heartbreak that accompanies all of that, is much of what life has to offer. Miss it at your great peril.”
Jordan Peterson, Life
“It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.”
Jordan Peterson, Life, Happiness
“It’s better to do something badly than to not do it at all.”
Jordan Peterson, Life
“I believe that the good that people do, small though it may appear, has more to do with the good that manifests broadly in the world than people think, and I believe the same about evil. We are each more responsible for the state of the world than we believe, or would feel comfortable believing.”
Jordan Peterson, Life
“You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.”
Jordan Peterson, Life
“The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.”
Jordan Peterson, Life, Goals
“Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.”
Jordan Peterson, Intelligence/Wisdom, Power, Life
“To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.”
Jordan Peterson, Life
“Denial is the ultimate comfort zone.”
David Goggins, Life
“We’re either getting better or we’re getting worse.”
David Goggins, Life
“Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it’s what you do at that moment that determines who you are.”
David Goggins, Life
“Life is one big tug of war between mediocrity and trying to find your best self.”
David Goggins, Life
“We all have the ability to come from nothing to something.”
David Goggins, Life
“It’s a lot more than mind over matter. It takes relentless self discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day.”
David Goggins, Life
“No matter who you are, who your parents are or were, where you live, what you do for a living, or how much money you have, you’re probably living at about 40 percent of your true capability.”
David Goggins, Life
“In every failure a lot of good things will have happened, and we must acknowledge them.”
David Goggins, Life
“If you’re not physically and mentally prepared for what life is going to throw at you, then you’re just going to crumble, And then, you’re no good to nobody.”
David Goggins, Life
“Having lived the life I’ve lived, and seeing the other side, not being afraid to attack what was in front of me has made me happy.”
David Goggins, Life, Happiness
“The human body can withstand and accomplish a hell of a lot more than most of us think possible, and that it all begins and ends in the mind.”
David Goggins, Life
“It’s possible to transcend anything that doesn’t kill you.”
David Goggins, Life
“When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.”
David Goggins, Life
“Suffering is the true test of life.”
David Goggins, Life
“Pain unlocks a secret doorway in the mind, one that leads to both peak performance, and beautiful silence.”
David Goggins, Life
“The Buddha famously said that life is suffering. I’m not a Buddhist, but I know what he meant and so do you. To exist in this world, we must contend with humiliation, broken dreams, sadness, and loss.”
David Goggins, Life
“Everyone fails sometimes and life isn’t supposed to be fair, much less bend to your every whim.”
David Goggins, Life
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”
David Goggins, Life
“The only way we can change is to be real with ourselves.”
David Goggins, Life
“No one is going to come help you. No one’s coming to save you.”
David Goggins, Life
“Life will always be the most grueling endurance sport, and when you train hard, get uncomfortable, and callous your mind, you will become a more versatile competitor, trained to find a way forward no matter what.”
David Goggins, Life
“Only you can master your mind, which is what it takes to live a bold life filled with accomplishments most people consider beyond their capability.”
David Goggins, Success, Life
“Comfort zones: If you live in one too long… that becomes your norm. Get comfortable being uncomfortable.”
David Goggins, Life, Goals
“Nobody cares what you did yesterday. What have you done today to better yourself?”
David Goggins, Life
“I tried to do so many things to fit in. But when you look in the mirror, that’s the one person you can’t lie to.”
David Goggins, Life
“We live in an external world. Everything, you have to see it, touch it. If you can for the rest of your life, live inside yourself – to find greatness, you have to go inside.”
David Goggins, Life, Success, Goals
“Only when you identify and accept your weaknesses will you finally stop running from your past.”
David Goggins, Life
"Mental toughness is a lifestyle.”
David Goggins, Life
“The only thing more contagious than a good attitude is a bad one.”
David Goggins, Life
“Listen to the Song of Life.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life, Goals, Music
“Live dangerously. There's a lot to be said for sinning.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life, Goals, Belief
“Fuck the roots.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life
“life is to be lived.if you have to support yourself,you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.And you don't do that by sitting around.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life, Work
“Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life
“Most people our brought up to believe they are as good as the person next to them, I was told I was better.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life
“Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?”
Katharine Hepburn, Life, Death
“I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life
“You can’t change the music of your soul.
- From Esquire 1967
Katharine Hepburn, Life
“If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life
“Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life, Happiness
“What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life
“If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life
“The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life
“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life
“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life
“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life
“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life
“I think empathy is really important, and I think only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.”
Jane Goodall, Life
“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
Jane Goodall, Life
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.”
Jane Goodall, Life, Goals
“We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.”
Jane Goodall, Life
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
Jane Goodall, Life
“Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.”
Jane Goodall, Life
“Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.”
Jane Goodall, Life
“Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved.”
Jane Goodall, Life
“Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.”
Jane Goodall, Life, Love
“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.”
Jane Goodall, Life
“Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.”
Florence Nightingale, Life
“It is very well to say, “Be prudent, be careful, try to get to know each other.” But how are you to know each other?”
Florence Nightingale, Life
“By mortifying vanity, we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life, we can alone remedy it.”
Florence Nightingale, Life
“But to live your life you must discipline it.”
Florence Nightingale, Life, Goals
“Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift — there is nothing small about it.”
Florence Nightingale, Life
“Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take a breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.”
Florence Nightingale, Life, Power, Strength
“Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.”
Florence Nightingale, Life
“The world is put back by the death of everyone who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.”
Florence Nightingale, Life, Death
“There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.”
Florence Nightingale, Life
“Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.”
Anne Frank, Life
“I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: "Because it's so much easier not to!”
Anne Frank, Strength, Goals, Life
“A voice within me is sobbing, "You see that's what's become of you. You're surrounded by negative opinions, dismayed looks and mocking faces, people who dislike you, and all because you don't listen to the advice of your own better half." Believe me, I'd like to listen, but it doesn't work, because if I'm quiet and serious, everyone thinks I'm putting on a new act and I have to save myself with a joke, and then I'm not even talking about my own family, who assume I must be sick, stuff me with aspirins and setatives, feel my neck and forehead to see if I have a temperature, ask about my bowel movements and berate me for being in a bad mood, until I just can't keep it up anymore, because when everybody starts hovering over me, I get cross, then sad, an finally end up turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside and the good part on the inside, and keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if . . . if only there were no other people in the world.
Yours, Anne M. Frank.”
Anne Frank, Life
“Ever since I was a little girl and could barely talk, the word 'why' has lived and grown along with me. It's a well-known fact that children ask questions about anything and everything, since almost everything is new to them. That is especially true of me, and not just as a child. Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions.
I have to admit that it can be annoying sometimes, but I comfort myself with the thought that "You won't know until you ask," though by now I've asked so much that they ought to have made me a professor.
When I got older, I noticed that not all questions can be asked and that many whys can never be answered. As a result, I tried to work things out for myself by mulling over my own questions. And I came to the important discovery that questions which you either can't or shouldn't ask in public, or questions which you can't put into words, can easily be solved in your own head. So the word 'why' not only taught me to ask, but also to think. And thinking has never hurt anyone. On the contrary, it does us all a world of good.”
Anne Frank, Life, Intelligence/Wisdom
“I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.”
Anne Frank, Life, Death
“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”
Anne Frank, Life, Love, Success
“Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.”
Anne Frank, Life
“Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!”
Anne Frank, Life
“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.”
Anne Frank, Life, Wealth, Power, Success
“But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.”
Anne Frank, Life
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”
Anne Frank, Hope, Life
“Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”
Anne Frank, Hope, Life, Courage, Strength
“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”
Anne Frank, Life
“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”
Anne Frank, Life
“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
Anne Frank, Life
“Because paper has more patience than people.”
Anne Frank, Life
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
Anne Frank, Life
“I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
Anne Frank, Life
“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
Anne Frank, Life, Goals
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Anne Frank, Life
“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”
Helen Keller, Life
“Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.”
Helen Keller, Life
“One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.”
Helen Keller, Life
“My friends have made the story of my life.”
Helen Keller, Friendship, Life
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
Helen Keller, Life
“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.”
Helen Keller, Life
“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”
Helen Keller, Life
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”
Helen Keller, Life
“Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
Helen Keller, Life
“So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
Helen Keller, Life, Goals
“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
Helen Keller, Life
“We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”
Helen Keller, Life, Courage, Happiness
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
Helen Keller, Life
“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
Helen Keller, Life
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
Helen Keller, Life, Goals, Success
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."
Helen Keller, Life
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
Helen Keller, Life
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller, Life
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
Helen Keller, Life, Opportunities
"Every heart has its own skeletons."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life
"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life
"They haven’t an idea of what happiness is; they don’t know that without our love, for us there is neither happiness nor unhappiness--no life at all."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Love, Happiness, Life
"Anything’s better than lying and deceit."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life
"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life
"Ferreting in one’s soul, one often ferrets out something that might have lain there unnoticed."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life
"If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life
"It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life
"She hardly knew at times what it was she feared, and what she hoped for. Whether she feared or desired what had happened or what was going to happen and exactly what she longed for, she could not have said."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life
"There, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. But the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Happiness, Life
"And in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. But strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Happiness, Life
"The preparations for marriage and the beginning of married life, with its conjugal caresses, the new furniture, new crockery, and new linen, were very pleasant until his wife became pregnant."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life
"But from the first months of his wife’s pregnancy, something new, unpleasant, depressing, and unseemly, and from which there was no way of escape, unexpectedly showed itself."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life
"Just then his schoolboy son had crept softly in and gone up to the bedside. The dying man was still screaming desperately and waving his arms. His hand fell on the boy’s head, and the boy caught it, pressed it to his lips, and began to cry."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life
"Suddenly some force struck him in the chest and side, making it still harder to breathe, and he fell through the hole and there at the bottom was a light."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life
"‘Maybe I did not live as I ought to have done,’ it suddenly occurred to him. ‘But how could that be, when I did everything properly?’ he replied, and immediately dismissed from his mind this, the sole solution of all the riddles of life and death, as something quite impossible."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life, Death
"I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life, Goals
"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life
"It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life
"Ivan Ilych’s life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life
"Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life, Death
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life
"I had a great teacher in life, my father. But I had another great teacher in terms of profession in terms of Ben Graham. I was lucky enough to get the right foundation very early on. And then basically I didn't listen to anybody else. I just look in the mirror every morning and the mirror always agrees with me. And I go out and do what I believe I should be doing. And I'm not influenced by what other people think."
Warren Buffet, Life, Criticism
"Imagine that you had a car and that was the only car you'd have for your entire lifetime. Of course, you'd care for it well, changing the oil more frequently than necessary, driving carefully, etc. Now, consider that you only have one mind and one body. Prepare them for life, care for them. You can enhance your mind over time. A person's main asset is themselves, so preserve and enhance yourself."
Warren Buffet, Life
"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
Warren Buffet, Life
"The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes."
Warren Buffet, Life
"Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you who you’ll turn out to be."
Warren Buffet, Life
"You know… you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again."
Warren Buffet, Life
"You've gotta keep control of your time, and you can't unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life."
Warren Buffet, Life, Time, Goals
"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."
Warren Buffet, Life
"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
Warren Buffet, Goals, Life
"Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you."
Warren Buffet, Love, Life, Success
"If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster."
Warren Buffet, Wealth, Life
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
Warren Buffet, Life
"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction."
Warren Buffet, Goals, Life
"Predicting rain doesn't count, building the ark does."
Warren Buffet, Finance, Life
"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked."
Warren Buffet, Finance, Life
"…not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives."
Warren Buffet, Goals, Life, Wealth
"There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult."
Warren Buffet, Life
"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death."
Walt Whitman, Life, Death
"The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse."
Walt Whitman, Life
"Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be."
Walt Whitman, Life
"I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words to tell."
Walt Whitman, Life
"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."
Walt Whitman, Life, Goals, Nature
"Afoot and lighthearted I take the open road, healthy free, the world before me."
Walt Whitman, Life
"Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me."
Walt Whitman, Goals, Life
"Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle."
Walt Whitman, Life
"What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to be more than all the print I have read in my life."
Walt Whitman, Life
"Long enough have you dream’d contemptible dreams. Now I wash the gum from your eyes. You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life."
Walt Whitman, Goals, Life
"Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch."
Walt Whitman, Life
"All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain."
Walt Whitman, Life
"Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth."
Walt Whitman, Life
"I am not a bit tamed. I too am untranslatable. I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."
Walt Whitman, Life
"The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are."
Walt Whitman, Life
"I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness."
Walt Whitman, Life
"To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle."
Walt Whitman, Life
"There are days that must happen to you."
Walt Whitman, Life
"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
Walt Whitman, Life
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large – I contain multitudes."
Walt Whitman, Life
"We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering… these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love… these are what we stay alive for."
Walt Whitman, Art, Life
"Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It’s all we’ve got."
Ricky Gervais, Life
"People have let me down in the past. I’ve loved something, and it’s become a disgrace. I’d rather start again."
Ricky Gervais, Life
"The grass isn’t always greener on the other side!"
Ricky Gervais, Life
"The world is bigger than all the parts. That’s the important thing, and one thing can throw everything off-kilter. And you must never let yourself off. You’ll let yourself off by mistake. So you shouldn’t do it consciously. You have to be above it all and just be very disciplined with it. Just be very disciplined with it."
Ricky Gervais, Life
"Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don’t know whether you’re in a trough until you’re climbing out, or on a peak until you’re coming down. And that’s it you know, you never know what’s round the corner. But it’s all good."
Ricky Gervais, Life
"The best advice I’ve ever received is, ‘No one else knows what they’re doing either.’"
Ricky Gervais, Life
"Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you’ve got to want it."
Ricky Gervais, Life, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Just because you’re offended, doesn’t mean you’re right."
Ricky Gervais, Life
"You do your own thing and you see if you survive."
Ricky Gervais, Life
"Mondays are fine. It’s your life that sucks."
Ricky Gervais, Life
"James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time."
Andy Warhol, Life
"The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will."
Andy Warhol, Goals, Life
"People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly."
Andy Warhol, Goals, Life
"everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it."
Andy Warhol, Life
"I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts."
Andy Warhol, Art, Life
"Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?"
Andy Warhol, Life
"The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting."
Andy Warhol, Art, Life
"You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you."
Andy Warhol, Goals, Life
"And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory."
Andy Warhol, Life
"I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens."
Andy Warhol, Goals, Life
"People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like you're watching television -- you don't feel anything."
Andy Warhol, Art, Life
"I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do."
Andy Warhol, Art, Life
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."
Andy Warhol, Life, Freedom
"Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life."
Andy Warhol, Life
"I never fall apart, because I never fall together."
Andy Warhol, Life
"As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it."
Andy Warhol, Life
"When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them."
Andy Warhol, Life
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
Andy Warhol, Time, Life
"Life is just a journey."
Princess Diana, Life
"I should never have played with fire and I did. And I got very burned."
Princess Diana, Life
"There’s no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it."
Princess Diana, Life
"I live for my sons. I would be lost without them."
Princess Diana, Goals, Life
"The day I walked down the aisle at St. Paul’s Cathedral, I felt that my personality was taken away from me, and I was taken over by the royal machine."
Princess Diana, Government, Life
"You can’t comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable."
Princess Diana, Life
"I knew that something profound was coming my way and I was just treading water, waiting for it. I didn't know what it was. I didn't know where it was. I didn't know if it was coming next year or next month. But I knew I was different from my friends in where I was going."
Princess Diana, Life
"Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny."
Princess Diana, Goals, Life
"Family is the most important thing in the world."
Princess Diana, Life
"So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them."
Princess Diana, Life
"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny."
Princess Diana, Happiness, Goals, Life
"Remember what I told you, Forrest. You’re the same as everybody else. Do you hear what I said, Forrest. You’re the same as everybody else. You are no different."– Mrs. Gump
Forrest Gump, Life
"Sometimes, I guess there just aren’t enough rocks." – Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Life
"Don’t ever let anybody tell you they’re better than you.” –Mrs. Gump
Forrest Gump, Life, Goals
"I don’t remember being born, I don’t recall what I got for my first Christmas, and I don’t know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world." –Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Life, Happiness
"I didn’t know it, but I was destined to be your Momma. I did the best I could."– Mrs. Gump
Forrest Gump, Life, Love
"Always be able to look back and say, at least I didn’t lead no humdrum life."– Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Life
"But you ain't got no legs, Lieutenant Dan."– Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Life
"You can't keep tryin' to rescue me all the time."- Jenny Curran
Forrest Gump, Life, Love
"They said it was a Million Dollar Wound, but The Army must keep that money…” – Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Life
"I don’t know if we each have a destiny, or if we’re all just floating around accidental, like on a breeze. But I think maybe it’s both. Maybe both are happening at the same time.” – Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Life
"s*** happens"- businessperson
Forrest Gump, Life
"Bubba was my best good friend. And even I know that ain't something you can find just around the corner. Bubba was going to be a shrimping boat captain, but instead, he died right there by that river in Vietnam."- Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Friendship, Life, Death
"Forrest: What's my destiny, Mama?
Mrs. Gump: You're gonna have to figure that out for yourself."
Forrest Gump, Life
"My given name is Benjamin Buford Blue, but people call me Bubba. Just like one of them ol' redneck boys. Can you believe that?" -Bubba Blue
Forrest Gump, Life
"What's normal anyways?" -Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Life
"Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't." -Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Life, Death
"My mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on." -Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Life
"My mama always said, &pos;Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.'" -Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Life
"On the cause of silence, each of us draws the face of their own fear—fear of contempt, of censure, or some judgement, or recognition, of challenge, of annihilation. But most of all, I think, we fear the visibility without which we cannot truly live."
Audre Lorde, Courage, Life
"We know what it is to be lied to, and we know how important it is not lie to ourselves. We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it all about—survival and growth."
Audre Lorde, Truth, Power, Life
"We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about—survival and growth."
Audre Lorde, Life
"However, experience has taught us that action in the now is also necessary, always."
Audre Lorde, Life
"The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us, and which knows only the oppressors' tactics, the oppressors' relationships."
Audre Lorde, Life
"The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future."
Audre Lorde, Society, Life
"Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness."
Audre Lorde, Life
"There are so many ways in which I’m vulnerable… I’m not going to be more vulnerable by putting weapons of silence in my enemies’ hands."
Audre Lorde, Life
"This is how I learned that if I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive."
Audre Lorde, Life
"How are you practicing what you preach—whatever you preach, and who is exactly listening?"
Audre Lorde, Life
"We do not have to suffer the waste of an amnesia that robs us of the lessons of the past rather than permit us to read them with pride as well as deep understanding."
Audre Lorde, Life
"We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present."
Audre Lorde, Life
"I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self."
Audre Lorde, Life
"When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining—I'm broadening the joining."
Audre Lorde, Life
"You do not have to be me in order for us to fight alongside each other. I do not have to be you to recognize that our wars are the same."
Audre Lorde, Life
"When a people share a common oppression, certain kinds of skills and joint defenses are developed. And if you survive you survive, because those skills and defenses have worked. When you come into conflict over other existing differences, there is a vulnerability to each other which is desperate and very deep."
Audre Lorde, Life
"In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower."
Audre Lorde, Life
"The ability to critique oneself and change and to hear critique from others is the condition of being that makes us capable of responsibility."
bell hooks, Life
"What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe."
bell hooks, Life
"Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives."
bell hooks, Love, Life
"If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue."
bell hooks, Life
"One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone."
bell hooks, Life
"To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial."
bell hooks, Life
"Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice."
bell hooks, Life
"The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat."
James Baldwin, Life
"It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here."
James Baldwin, Life
"People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life."
James Baldwin, Life, Happiness
"There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain."
James Baldwin, Life
"People can cry much easier than they can change."
James Baldwin, Life
"Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth."
James Baldwin, Life, Love
"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead."
James Baldwin, Life
"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return."
James Baldwin, Life, Death
"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."
James Baldwin, Life
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
James Baldwin, Life
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive."
James Baldwin, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
James Baldwin, Life
"Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law."
James Baldwin, Life
"People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception."
James Baldwin, Life
"You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all."
James Baldwin, Life
"For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness."
James Baldwin, Life
"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread."
James Baldwin, Life, Love
"Whoever debases others is debasing himself."
James Baldwin, Life
"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."
James Baldwin, Life
"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster."
James Baldwin, Life
"For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all—a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named—but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. This is certainly what my decision, made so long ago in Joey’s bed, came to. I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me. I succeeded very well—by not looking at the universe, by not looking at myself, by remaining, in effect, in constant motion."
James Baldwin, Life
"To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought."
James Baldwin, Life
"Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore."
James Baldwin, Life
"If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody."
James Baldwin, Life, Love, Death
"True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life."
James Baldwin, Life, Love, Goals
"Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind."
James Baldwin, Life, Love
"To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."
Henry David Thoreau, Nature, Life
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
Henry David Thoreau, Life, Goals
"It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."
Henry David Thoreau, Life, Goals
"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality."
Henry David Thoreau, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
"We are constantly invited to be who we are."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust."
Henry David Thoreau, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life, Freedom
"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself."
Henry David Thoreau, Life, Nature
"We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"Men have become the tools of their tools."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"The universe is wider than our views of it."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"My greatest skill in life has been to want but little."
Henry David Thoreau, Life, Wealth
"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
Henry David Thoreau, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
"It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"This world is but a canvas for our imagination."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"Not till we are completely lost or turned around... do we begin to find ourselves."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."
Henry David Thoreau, Life, Goals
"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."
Henry David Thoreau, Life, Death
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Henry David Thoreau, Life
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
Henry David Thoreau, Arrogance, Art, Life
"When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!"
Alice in Wonderland, Life
"I wish I hadn’t cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. “I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer to-day."
Alice in Wonderland, Life
"But it’s no use now,” thought poor Alice, “to pretend to be two people! Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!"
Alice in Wonderland, Life
"Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if only I knew how to begin.’ ‘For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible."
Alice in Wonderland, Life
"Let your need guide your behavior."
Alice in Wonderland, Goals, Life
"Never let anyone drive you crazy; it is nearby anyway and the walk is good for you."
Alice in Wonderland, Goals, Life
"Somehow you strayed and lost your way, and now there’ll be no time to play, no time for joy, no time for friends – not even time to make amends."
Alice in Wonderland, Life
"When the day becomes the night and the sky becomes the sea, when the clock strikes heavy and there’s no time for tea; and in our darkest hour, before my final rhyme, she will come back home to Wonderland and turn back the hands of time."
Alice in Wonderland, Life
"We are all victims in-waiting."
Alice in Wonderland, Life
"No one does [play fair] if they think they can get away with it."
Alice in Wonderland, Life
"Not all who wander are lost."
Alice in Wonderland, Life
"Haste makes waste, so I rarely hurry. But if a ferret were about to dart up my dress, I’d run."
Alice in Wonderland, Life
"Every adventure requires a first step."
Alice in Wonderland, Life
"I am not crazy; my reality is just different from yours."
Alice in Wonderland, Life
"And the moral of that is—’Oh, ‘tis love, ‘tis love, that makes the world go round!’”
“Somebody said,” Alice whispered, “that it’s done by everybody minding their own business!”
“Ah well! It means much the same thing,” said the Duchess, digging her sharp little chin into Alice’s shoulder as she added, “and the moral of that is—‘Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.’"
Alice in Wonderland, Life, Love
"Tut, tut, child!” said the Duchess. “Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it."
Alice in Wonderland, Life
"Who are you?” said the Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know, Sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”
“What do you mean by that?” said the Caterpillar, sternly. “Explain yourself!”
“I ca’n’t explain myself, I’m afraid, Sir,” said Alice, “because I am not myself, you see."
Alice in Wonderland, Life
"And the moral of that is—‘Be what you would seem to be’—or, if you’d like it put more simply—‘Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.’"
Alice in Wonderland, Life, Goals
"You might just as well say,” added the March Hare, “that ‘I like what I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I like’!”
“You might just as well say, ” added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, “that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!"
Alice in Wonderland, Life
"Imagination is the only weapon in the war with reality."
Alice in Wonderland, Life
"How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: *was* I the same when I got up this morning?"
Alice in Wonderland, Life
"There might be some sense to your knocking,” the Footman went on, without attending to her, “if we had the door between us. For instance, if you were *inside,* you might knock and I could let you out, you know."
Alice in Wonderland, Life
"At some point you have to forget about grudges because they only hurt."
Taylor Swift, Life
"These days, I've been trying to classify my thoughts into two categories: "Things I can change," and "Things I can't." It seems to help me sort through what to really stress about. But there I go again, over-planning and over-organizing my over-thinking! I write songs about my adventures and misadventures, most of which concern love. Love is a tricky business. But if it wasn't, I wouldn't be so enthralled with it. Lately I've come to a wonderful realization that makes me even more fascinated by it: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does! There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us, of course. I can't plan for it. I can't predict how it'll end up. Because love is unpredictable and it's frustrating and it's tragic and it's beautiful. And even though there's no way to feel like I'm an expert at it, it's worth writing songs about -- more than anything else I've ever experienced in my life."
Taylor Swift, Life, Love, Music
"I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be."
Taylor Swift, Life, Time
"Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I've begun to fear more that that is letting the moment pass without saying anything.
I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back, regretting the moments we didn't speak up. When we didn't say "I love you." When we should've said "I'm Sorry." When we didn't stand up for ourselves or some one who needed help."
Taylor Swift, Life
"Life isn't how to survive the storm, it's about how to dance in the rain."
Taylor Swift, Life
"I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list. Like for example, I'm still beyond obsessed with the winter season and I still start putting up strings of lights in September. I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. But some new things I've fallen in love with -- mismatched everything. Mismatched chairs, mismatched colors, mismatched personalities. I love spraying perfumes I used to wear when I was in high school. It brings me back to the days of trying to get a close parking spot at school, trying to get noticed by soccer players, and trying to figure out how to avoid doing or saying anything uncool, and wishing every minute of every day that one day maybe I'd get a chance to win a Grammy. Or something crazy and out of reach like that. I love old buildings with the paint chipping off the walls and my dad's stories about college. I love the freedom of living alone, but I also love things that make me feel seven again. Back then naivety was the norm and skepticism was a foreign language, and I just think every once in a while you need fries and a chocolate milkshake and your mom. I love picking up a cookbook and closing my eyes and opening it to a random page, then attempting to make that recipe. I've loved my fans from the very first day, but they've said things and done things recently that make me feel like they're my friends -- more now than ever before. I'll never go a day without thinking about our memories together."
Taylor Swift, Life, Happiness
"There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team."
Taylor Swift, Life, Love
"The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now."
Taylor Swift, Life
"Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone."
Taylor Swift, Life
"Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music."
Taylor Swift, Life, Music
"No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind."
Taylor Swift, Life, Kindness
"This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change."
Taylor Swift, Life
"When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair."
Taylor Swift, Life
"People haven't always been there for me but music always has."
Taylor Swift, Life, Music
"A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity."
Frederick Douglass, Life
"A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well."
Frederick Douglass, Work, Life
"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."
Frederick Douglass, Life
"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."
Frederick Douglass, Work, Life
"Without a struggle, there can be no progress."
Frederick Douglass, Life
"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."
Frederick Douglass, Life
"Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it."
Susan B Anthony, Sex, Life
"This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses."
Susan B Anthony, Life
"Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval."
Susan B Anthony, Life
"Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these."
Susan B Anthony, Life
"Nor can we expect exactly similar results from children whose heredity and experience make them at once more sensitive, more active, and less amenable to."
Maria Montessori, Life
"The true basis of the imagination is reality."
Maria Montessori, Life, Intelligence/Wisdom, Truth
"We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself."
Maria Montessori, Life, Science
"you do not exist, you cannot hope to grow. That is the tremendous step the child takes, the step that goes from nothing to something."
Maria Montessori, Life
"The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be."
Maria Montessori, Life
"Needless help is an actual hindrance to the development of natural forces."
Maria Montessori, Life
"We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity."
Maria Montessori, Society, Life
"To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator."
Maria Montessori, Life, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life."
Maria Montessori, Goals, Life
"Within the child lies the fate of the future."
Maria Montessori, Life
"We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life."
Maria Montessori, Life, Intelligence/Wisdom
"If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them."
George Orwell, Life
"Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom."
George Orwell, Life
"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."
George Orwell, Happiness, Life
"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself."
George Orwell, Life
"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."
George Orwell, Life
"Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes."
George Orwell, Life
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
George Orwell, Love, Life
"Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man."
Thomas Paine, Life
"If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves."
Thomas Paine, Life
"Character is much easier kept than recovered."
Thomas Paine, Life
"These are the times that try men's souls."
Thomas Paine, Life
"If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being. The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can't predict what they will do."
Stephen Hawking, Life, Science
"The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves."
Stephen Hawking, Life
"If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans."
Stephen Hawking, Life
"We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet."
Stephen Hawking, Life
"The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away."
Stephen Hawking, Life
"When people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the big bang, so there is no time for god to make the universe in. It’s like asking directions to the edge of the earth; The Earth is a sphere; it doesn’t have an edge; so looking for it is a futile exercise. We are each free to believe what we want, and it’s my view that the simplest explanation is; there is no god. No one created our universe,and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization; There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I am extremely grateful."
Stephen Hawking, Life, Time, Belief
"The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. … Time itself must come to a stop. You can’t get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang. We have finally found something that does not have a cause because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For me this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a creator to have existed. Since time itself began at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that could not have been caused or created by anyone or anything. … So when people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It’s like asking for directions to the edge of the Earth. The Earth is a sphere. It does not have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise."
Stephen Hawking, Life, Time, Belief
"I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
Stephen Hawking, Life
"The universe doesn't allow perfection."
Stephen Hawking, Life
"[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth."
Stephen Hawking, Life
"One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist."
Stephen Hawking, Life
"I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful."
Stephen Hawking, Belief, Life
"The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope."
Stephen Hawking, Life, Hope
"My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."
Stephen Hawking, Life
"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up."
Stephen Hawking, Life, Goals, Success
"For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking."
Stephen Hawking, Life
"Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."
Stephen Hawking, Life
"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."
Stephen Hawking, Life
"One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten."
Thomas Sowell, Life
"Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options."
Thomas Sowell, Life
"Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos."
Thomas Sowell, Government, Life
"There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs."
Thomas Sowell, Life
"As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies."
Tesla, Life
"Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without. Owing to the similarity of our construction and the sameness of our environment, we respond in like manner to similar stimuli, and from the concordance of our reactions, understanding is born. In the course of ages, mechanisms of infinite complexity are developed, but what we call 'soul' or 'spirit,' is nothing more than the sum of the functionings of the body. When this functioning ceases, the 'soul' or the 'spirit' ceases likewise."
Tesla, Belief, Science, Life
"Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance."
Tesla, Life
"From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement. The pressure of occupation and the incessant stream of impressions pouring into our consciousness through all the gateways of knowledge make modern existence hazardous in many ways. Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The premature death of millions is primarily traceable to this cause. Even among those who exercise care, it is a common mistake to avoid imaginary, and ignore the real dangers. And what is true of an individual also applies, more or less, to a people as a whole."
Tesla, Life
"Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors."
Tesla, Life, Science
"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
Tesla, Life, Science
"The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it."
Steve Jobs, Life
"Believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart."
Steve Jobs, Life
"You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever."
Steve Jobs, Life
"Without death, there would be very little progress."
Steve Jobs, Life, Death
"I think the things you most regret in life are things you didn’t do. What you really regret was never asking that girl to dance."
Steve Jobs, Goals, Life
"Once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you."
Steve Jobs, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
"That’s been one of my mantras—focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple."
Steve Jobs, Life
"I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete."
Steve Jobs, Life, Death
"One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are."
Steve Jobs, Life
"Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life."
Steve Jobs, Life
"Most people don’t get those experiences because they never ask. I’ve never found anybody that didn’t want to help me if I asked them for help."
Steve Jobs, Life
"For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."
Steve Jobs, Life
"Life goes on and you learn from it."
Steve Jobs, Life, Intelligence/Wisdom
"If you live each day as it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right."
Steve Jobs, Life
"I think the things you regret most in life are the things you didn’t do."
Steve Jobs, Life, Goals
"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith."
Steve Jobs, Life, Problems
"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future."
Steve Jobs, Life
"Are you going to believe what you see or what I tell you?"
John Wayne, Life
"You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman."
John Wayne, Life
"My name is John Wayne. When I was a kid I had ring worm. Hell, I was more worm than boy for a couple of years."
John Wayne, Life
"When you side with a man you stay with him, and if you can't do that you're like some animal. You're finished."
John Wayne, Life
"If everything isn't black and white I say why the hell not."
John Wayne, Life
"Don't hit your posset with a stick mister, it tends to make you cough."
John Wayne, Life
"As we live in an insane world major, maybe it's time we gave insane solutions a chance."
John Wayne, Life
"There's right and there's wrong. Y'gotta do one or the other. Do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat."
John Wayne, Life
"The worst part of it has been, I think, the adverse effect on family life. It kills off family conversation. And it’s harder to get your children to read books. I became a confirmed reader when I was growing up in Glendale. I’ve loved reading all my life. Now I’ve got this daughter, Aissa, a very bright young lady -- but it is a hard job to get her to read. Television’s just too easy."
John Wayne, Happiness, Life
"Life it tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid."
John Wayne, Life
"The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that’s what we have to put up with. I think that any person that’s in the United States is better off here than they would be where they came from."
John Wayne, Life
"A goal, A love and A dream give you total control over your body and your life."
John Wayne, Life, Love, Goals
"Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind."
John Wayne, Life
"It's getting to be ri-goddamn-diculous."
John Wayne, Life
"I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble."
John Wayne, Life
"A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him."
John Wayne, Life
"You're short on ears and long on mouth."
John Wayne, Life
"I believed innocently and profoundly as a child that the world could be a better place."
John Lewis, Life
"Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less."
John Lewis, Life
"Every generation leaves behind a legacy. What that legacy will be is determined by the people of that generation. What legacy do you want to leave behind?"
John Lewis, Life
"You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone—any person or any force—dampen, dim or diminish your light. Study the path of others to make your way easier and more abundant. Lean toward the whispers of your own heart, discover the universal truth, and follow its dictates. […] Release the need to hate, to harbor division, and the enticement of revenge. Release all bitterness. Hold only love, only peace in your heart, knowing that the battle of good to overcome evil is already won. Choose confrontation wisely, but when it is your time don't be afraid to stand up, speak up, and speak out against injustice. And if you follow your truth down the road to peace and the affirmation of love, if you shine like a beacon for all to see, then the poetry of all the great dreamers and philosophers is yours to manifest in a nation, a world community, and a Beloved Community that is finally at peace with itself."
John Lewis, Life, Love
"Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm."
John Muir, Life
"Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance."
John Muir, Life, Intelligence/Wisdom, Time
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life."
John Muir, Nature, Life
"On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights."
John Muir, Nature, Life, Death, Ideas
"Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality."
John Muir, Nature, Life, Freedom
"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt."
John Muir, Life
"The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts."
John Muir, Life
"I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news."
John Muir, Nature, Life
"You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life."
Jim Rohn, Life
"For every promise, there is a price to pay... If the promise is clear, the price is easy..."
Jim Rohn, Life
"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."
Jim Rohn, Life
"For things to change, you have to change."
Jim Rohn, Life
"Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got."
Jim Rohn, Life
"We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation."
Jim Rohn, Life
"Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with our lives. The first choice we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to be. To earn less. To have less. To read less and think less. To try less and discipline ourselves less. These are the choices that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that, once made, lead to a life of constant apprehension instead of a life of wondrous anticipation And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that we can possibly be. To read every book that we possibly can. To earn as much as we possibly can. To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive and produce and accomplish as much as we possibly can."
Jim Rohn, Life, Goals
"The difference between where you are today and where you'll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you've read."
Jim Rohn, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."
Jim Rohn, Life
"If you don't like how things are, change it. You are not a tree."
Jim Rohn, Life
"One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention."
Jim Rohn, Life
"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of."
Jim Rohn, Life
"The greatest gift you can give somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, "If you will take care of me, I will take care of you. "Now I say, I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me."
Jim Rohn, Life
"If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."
Jim Rohn, Life, Planning
"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons."
Jim Rohn, Life
"Put all excuses aside and remember this: You are capable."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves."
Zig Ziglar, Goals, Life
"When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want."
Zig Ziglar, Goals, Life
"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis."
Zig Ziglar, Life
"There comes a time when you have to drop your burdens in order to fight for yourself and your dreams."
Les Brown, Life, Goals
"I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life – it’s possible."
Les Brown, Life
"Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others."
Les Brown, Life, Goals
"Don’t waste another minute dealing with a toxic, negative, energy-draining person. Some people are wired for negativity. They love being argumentative, combative and abusive. Run for your life as quickly as possible."
Les Brown, Life, Time
"Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it Does!"
Les Brown, Life, Goals
"If you want to keep getting what you’re getting, keep doing what you’re doing."
Les Brown, Life
"Whatever life may send your way – make the best of it. Don’t waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation."
Les Brown, Life
"Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don’t want will automatically take over."
Les Brown, Life
"Change your thinking. Change your life! Your thoughts create your reality. Practice positive thinking. Act the way you want to be, and soon you will be the way you act."
Les Brown, Life
"Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy."
Les Brown, Life
"Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up."
Les Brown, Life
"The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience."
Les Brown, Life, Goals
"Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow."
Les Brown, Life
"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."
Les Brown, Life
"Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential."
Les Brown, Life
"Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life."
Les Brown, Life
"Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit."
Les Brown, Life, Success, Goals
"Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
"So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Life, Problems, Opportunities
"Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life, Goals
"All of life is a constant education."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
"Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Life, Time
"Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Life, Criticism
"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Life
"It's your life-but only if you make it so."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Life
"Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Life
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Courage, Life
"Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Life
"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Life
"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Life
"A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life, Love
"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Life
"You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Life
"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Life
"Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Life
"Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Happiness, Life
"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Courage, Life
"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Strength, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
"If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Life
"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Life
"You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Life
"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Life, Friendship
"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Courage, Love, Life, Death
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Life
"Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so."
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything."
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose."
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"In order to write about life first you must live it."
Ernest Hemingway, Art, Life
"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it."
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not."
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed."
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"Never confuse movement with action."
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another."
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason."
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
Ernest Hemingway, Courage, Life
"Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"I drink to make other people more interesting."
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
Ernest Hemingway, Life
"Appearances matter — and remember to smile."
Nelson Mandela, Life
"Where you stand depends on where you sit."
Nelson Mandela, Life
"As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility."
Nelson Mandela, Life
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
Nelson Mandela, Life
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
Nelson Mandela, Life
"I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended."
Nelson Mandela, Freedom, Life
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
Nelson Mandela, Life
"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies."
Nelson Mandela, Life
"I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death."
Nelson Mandela, Success, Life, Death
"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."
Nelson Mandela, Freedom, Life
"Tread softly, Breathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically."
Nelson Mandela, Life
"It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another."
Nelson Mandela, Life
"There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status."
Nelson Mandela, Life
"I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope."
Nelson Mandela, Life
"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead."
Nelson Mandela, Life
"Nothing is black or white."
Nelson Mandela, Life
"One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen."
Nelson Mandela, Life
"Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening."
Nelson Mandela, Life
"Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment."
Epictetus, Life
"Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?"
Epictetus, Life
"Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth."
Epictetus, Life, Wealth
"You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.' For the man who has once stooped to consider such questions, and to reckon up the value of external things, is not far from forgetting what manner of man he is."
Epictetus, Life
"A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope."
Epictetus, Life
"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly."
Epictetus, Life
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other."
Epictetus, Life
"Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now."
Epictetus, Life
"Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weaknesses. Avoid being one of the mob who indulges in such pastimes. Your life is too short and you have important things to do. Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest. It is the easiest thing in the world to slide imperceptibly into vulgarity. But there's no need for that to happen if you determine not to waste your time and attention on mindless pap."
Epictetus, Time, Life
"Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others."
Epictetus, Life
"People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them."
Epictetus, Life
"Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself."
Epictetus, Life
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
Epictetus, Life
"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it."
Epictetus, Life
"But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future."
Seneca, Time, Life
"We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."
Seneca, Life
"While we wait for life, life passes."
Seneca, Life
"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."
Seneca, Life
"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."
Seneca, Life
"We learn not in the school, but in life."
Seneca, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
"Life is long if you know how to use it."
Seneca, Time, Life
"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."
Seneca, Life
"Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age."
Seneca, Life
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
Seneca, Life
"The sun also shines on the wicked."
Seneca, Life
"Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind. No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives—worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over. No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives! We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers."
Seneca, Time, Wealth, Life
"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it."
Seneca, Time, Life
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."
Seneca, Life
"Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."
Seneca, Life
"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones."
Seneca, Life
"If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich."
Seneca, Life
"Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately."
Seneca, Life, Goals
"He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary."
Seneca, Life
"They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn."
Seneca, Life
"What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears."
Seneca, Life
"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
Seneca, Life
"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person."
Seneca, Life
"It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully."
Seneca, Time, Life
"Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older."
Seneca, Life
"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
Seneca, Life
"You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire."
Seneca, Life
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
Seneca, Life, Courage
"Nothing beautiful without struggle."
Plato, Life
"Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent", in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly"."
Plato, Life
"People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die."
Plato, Life
"Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder."
Plato, Life
"Character is simply habit long continued."
Plato, Life
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
Plato, Life
"The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing."
Bruce Lee, Life
"Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can."
Bruce Lee, Life
"The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest."
Bruce Lee, Life
"The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems."
Bruce Lee, Life
"Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light."
Bruce Lee, Life
"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick."
Bruce Lee, Life
"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."
Bruce Lee, Intelligence/Wisdom, Power, Life
"Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image."
Bruce Lee, Life
"As you think, so shall you become."
Bruce Lee, Life
"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."
Bruce Lee, Life, Time
"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."
Bruce Lee, Life
"You are only an extra in everyone else's play."
FDR- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Life
"A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted--in the air. A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest--at the command--of his head."
FDR- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Life
"I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy."
George Washington, Life
"The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved."
George Washington, Life
"Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble."
George Washington, Life
"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
George Washington, Life
"Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages."
George Washington, Life
"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."
George Washington, Life
"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."
George Washington, Life
"99% of failures come from people who make excuses."
George Washington, Life
"A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life:
1. Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
2. Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have it.
4. Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
5. Take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves.
6. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
7. We never repent of having eat too little.
8. Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
9. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
10. Take things always by their smooth handle.
11. Think as you please, and so let others, and you will have no disputes.
12. When angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100."
Thomas Jefferson, Life
"If you want something you've never had You must be willing to do something you've never done."
Thomas Jefferson, Life
"I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give."
Thomas Jefferson, Life
"What hurts the most is people can go from people you know to people you don't."
Selena Gomez, Life
"If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken."
Selena Gomez, Life
"People do change."
Selena Gomez, Life
"I dive into the future but I’m blinded by the sun. I’m reborn in every moment, so who knows what I’ll become..."
Selena Gomez, Life
"Live like there's no tomorrow."
Selena Gomez, Life
"Being yourself is all it takes. If you want to impress someone don't be someone else just be yourself."
Selena Gomez, Life
"You have every right to a beautiful life."
Selena Gomez, Life
"Always be yourself, there's no one better!"
Selena Gomez, Life
"I just care what kind of a decent human being you are."
Betty White, Life
"I know unless I’m true to myself I couldn’t be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character."
Betty White, Life, Happiness
"I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple."
Betty White, Life, Happiness
"If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble."
Betty White, Life
"Don’t try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won’t live long enough to find out about, but I’m still curious about them."
Betty White, Life
"Everybody needs a passion. That’s what keeps life interesting. If you live without passion, you can go through life without leaving any footprints."
Betty White, Life
"I think older women still have a full life."
Betty White, Life
"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality."
JFK- John F. Kennedy, Goals, Courage, Life
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."
JFK- John F. Kennedy, Life
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
JFK- John F. Kennedy, Freedom, Life
"I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came."
JFK- John F. Kennedy, Life
"Life is one grand sweet song so start the music."
Ronald Reagan, Life, Music
"To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will."
Ronald Reagan, Life
"Nothing worth having comes easy."
Teddy Roosevelt, Life
"Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure."
Teddy Roosevelt, Life, Death
"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering."
Teddy Roosevelt, Life
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Teddy Roosevelt, Life
"No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself."
Audrey Hepburn, Life
"I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!"
Audrey Hepburn, Life
"My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature."
Audrey Hepburn, Life
"I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch."
Audrey Hepburn, Life
"On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear."
Audrey Hepburn, Life
"I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -"
Audrey Hepburn, Life
"I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it."
Audrey Hepburn, Life
"Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it."
Audrey Hepburn, Life
"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once."
Audrey Hepburn, Life
"When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over."
Audrey Hepburn, Love, Life
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."
Audrey Hepburn, Love, Life
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."
Audrey Hepburn, Happiness, Life
"We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life."
Carl Jung, Life
"I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole."
Carl Jung, Life
"Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted..."
Carl Jung, Life
"Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries."
Carl Jung, Life
"The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it."
Carl Jung, Life
"To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is."
Carl Jung, Life
"What you resist, persists."
Carl Jung, Life
"The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others."
Carl Jung, Life
"Shame is a soul eating emotion."
Carl Jung, Life
"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."
Carl Jung, Life
"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
Carl Jung, Life
"Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too. Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you. Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life...If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn madness, since it makes up such a great part of your nature...Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim. Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself. Life itself has no rules. That is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life."
Carl Jung, Life
"How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole."
Carl Jung, Life
"We cannot change anything unless we accept it."
Carl Jung, Life
"Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event."
Carl Jung, Life
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
Carl Jung, Life
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."
Carl Jung, Life
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
Carl Jung, Life
"No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell."
Carl Jung, Life
"There's no coming to consciousness without pain."
Carl Jung, Life
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."
Carl Jung, Life
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
Carl Jung, Life
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism."
Carl Jung, Life
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."
Carl Jung, Life
"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible."
Carl Jung, Life
"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."
Carl Jung, Life
"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
Carl Jung, Life
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
Carl Jung, Life
"In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep."
Socrates, Life
"The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves."
Socrates, Life, Goals
"The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles."
Socrates, Life, Goals
"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
Socrates, Life, Goals
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."
Socrates, Life
"The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be."
Socrates, Life
"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."
Socrates, Life
"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it."
Socrates, Life
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
Socrates, Life
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
Socrates, Life
"We cannot live better than in seeking to become better."
Socrates, Life, Goals
"Every action has its pleasures and its price."
Socrates, Life
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates, Life
"All men by nature desire to know."
Aristotle, Life
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."
Aristotle, Life, Science
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."
Aristotle, Life
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
Aristotle, Happiness, Life
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
Mark Twain, Death, Life
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."
Mark Twain, Life
"A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory."
Mark Twain, Life
"Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life."
Mark Twain, Life
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
Mark Twain, Life
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."
Mark Twain, Life, Kindness
"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
Mark Twain, Life
"Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
Mark Twain, Life
"You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns."
Mark Twain, Life
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
Mark Twain, Friendship, Life
"The funniest things are forbidden."
Mark Twain, Life
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Mark Twain, Life
"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
Mark Twain, Life
"I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human."
Marilyn Monroe, Life
"I never wanted to be Marilyn--it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane."
Marilyn Monroe, Life
"Always, always, always believe in yourself. Because if you don’t then who will, sweetie?"
Marilyn Monroe, Life
"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
Marilyn Monroe, Life
"If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never got anywhere."
Marilyn Monroe, Life
"Fear is stupid. So are regrets."
Marilyn Monroe, Life
"We should all start to live before we get too old."
Marilyn Monroe, Life
"We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle."
Marilyn Monroe, Life
"I always said Tiggers could climb trees. Not that it’s easy, mind you. Of course, there’s the coming-down too. Which will be difficult unless one fell, when it would be easy."
Winnie the Pooh, Life
"If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn’t involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head."
Winnie the Pooh, Life
"If the string breaks, then we try another piece of string."
Winnie the Pooh, Life
"They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them."
Winnie the Pooh, Life
"Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake."
Winnie the Pooh, Life
"The things that make me different are the things that make me, me."
Winnie the Pooh, Life
"The most wonderful thing about Tiggers is, I’m the only one."
Winnie the Pooh, Life
"If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear."
Winnie the Pooh, Life
"Rivers know this: There is no hurry. We shall get there some day."
Winnie the Pooh, Life
"Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself."
Rumi, Life
"We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust."
Rumi, Life
"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear."
Rumi, Life
"Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames."
Rumi, Life
"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death."
Rumi, Life
"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"
Rumi, Life
"Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
Rumi, Life
"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion."
Rumi, Life
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
Rumi, Life
"You just can't live that negative way. You know what I mean. Make way for the positive day. Cause it's a new day..."
Bob Marley, Life
"The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race."
Bob Marley, Life
"beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living."
Bob Marley, Life
"You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved."
Bob Marley, Life
"It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you That it's your heart and nobody else's That is gonna judge."
Bob Marley, Life
"Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me."
Bob Marley, Life
"You have to be someone."
Bob Marley, Life
"Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?"
Bob Marley, Life
"Wake up and live."
Bob Marley, Life
"When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open."
Bob Marley, Life
"The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever."
Bob Marley, Life, Love
"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!"
Bob Marley, Life
"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."
Bob Marley, Life, Love
"Don’t lose heart if it’s very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can, in the beginning, do as he wishes."
Van Gogh, Life
"What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?"
Van Gogh, Life
"Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it."
Van Gogh, Life
"Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all."
Van Gogh, Life
"As a suffering creature, I cannot do without something greater than I – something that is my life – the power to create."
Van Gogh, Life
"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."
Van Gogh, Life
"I will not live without love."
Van Gogh, Life, Love
"Conscience is a man’s compass."
Van Gogh, Life
"In spite of everything, I shall rise again."
Van Gogh, Life
"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."
Van Gogh, Life
"The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right."
Van Gogh, Life
"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too."
Van Gogh, Life
"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere."
Van Gogh, Life
"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
Van Gogh, Life
"Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it."
Van Gogh, Life
"Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all."
Van Gogh, Life
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
Martin Luther King Jr., Life
"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
Martin Luther King Jr., Life, Love
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?"
Martin Luther King Jr., Life
"The time is always right to do the right thing."
Martin Luther King Jr., Life
"We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
Martin Luther King Jr., Life
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
Martin Luther King Jr., Life
"No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for."
Martin Luther King Jr., Life
"You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."
Abraham Lincoln, Life
"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."
Abraham Lincoln, Life
"It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't."
Abraham Lincoln, Life
"It&pos;s not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't."
Abraham Lincoln, Life
"I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being."
Abraham Lincoln, Life
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
Abraham Lincoln, Life
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
Abraham Lincoln, Life
"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
Abraham Lincoln, Life
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
Abraham Lincoln, Life
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
Abraham Lincoln, Life
"There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes."
Abraham Lincoln, Life
"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."
Gandhi, Life
"I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect."
Gandhi, Life
"There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent."
Gandhi, Life
"They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them."
Gandhi, Life
"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."
Gandhi, Life
"You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them."
Gandhi, Life
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
Gandhi, Life
"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
Gandhi, Life
"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."
Gandhi, Life
"The future depends on what you do today."
Gandhi, Life
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
Gandhi, Life
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
Gandhi, Life
"Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny."
Gandhi, Life
"Where there is love there is life."
Gandhi, Love, Life
"Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them."
Marcus Aurelius, Life
"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil."
Marcus Aurelius, Life
"How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life."
Marcus Aurelius, Life
"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."
Marcus Aurelius, Life
"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."
Marcus Aurelius, Life
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
Marcus Aurelius, Life
"For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose."
Marcus Aurelius, Life
"Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence."
Marcus Aurelius, Life
"Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life."
Marcus Aurelius, Life
"What we do now echoes in eternity."
Marcus Aurelius, Life
"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness."
Marcus Aurelius, Life, Kindness
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
Marcus Aurelius, Life
"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others."
Marcus Aurelius, Life
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
Marcus Aurelius, Life
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
Marcus Aurelius, Life
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
Marcus Aurelius, Life
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."
Winston Churchill, Life, Freedom
"We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm."
Winston Churchill, Life
"To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour."
Winston Churchill, Life
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
Winston Churchill, Life
"A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly."
Winston Churchill, Life
"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
Winston Churchill, Life
"When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation."
Bertrand Russell, Life, Love
"The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
Bertrand Russell, Life, Love, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet."
Bertrand Russell, Life, Love
"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."
Bertrand Russell, Anger and Fighting, Life
"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."
Bertrand Russell, Life
"I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own."
Bertrand Russell, Life, Happiness, Love
"These illustrations suggest four general maxims: The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself.
The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits.
The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself.
And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you."
Bertrand Russell, Life
"The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible."
Bertrand Russell, Life, Happiness
"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways."
Bertrand Russell, Life, Happiness
"No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues."
Bertrand Russell, Life
"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd."
Bertrand Russell, Life
"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."
Bertrand Russell, Love, Life
"To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it."
Bertrand Russell, Life
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."
Bertrand Russell, Life
"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."
Bertrand Russell, Life
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead."
Bertrand Russell, Love, Life
"Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden."
Aesop, Life
"Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave."
Aesop, Life
"Self-help is the best help."
Aesop, Life
"Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature."
Aesop, Life
"All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack."
Aesop, Life
"It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters."
Aesop, Life
"There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues."
Aesop, Life
"Vices are their own punishment."
Aesop, Life
"Those who suffer most cry out the least."
Aesop, Life
"Please all, and you will please none."
Aesop, Life
"Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most."
Aesop, Life
"To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity."
Walt Disney, Life
"The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements but rather with the things we do for the people we love and esteem, and whose respect we need."
Walt Disney, Life
"Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job."
Walt Disney, Happiness, Life, Work, Goals
"It’s a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young."
Walt Disney, Life
"Adults are only kids grown up."
Walt Disney, Life
"Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk."
Walt Disney, Life
"That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget."
Walt Disney, Life
"Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past."
Walt Disney, Life
"When people laugh at Mickey Mouse it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity."
Walt Disney, Life
"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique."
Walt Disney, Life
"Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills."
Voltaire, Life
"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."
Voltaire, Life
"You're a bitter man," said Candide. "That's because I've lived," said Martin.
Voltaire, Life
"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road."
Voltaire, Life
"The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood."
Voltaire, Life
"I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way."
Voltaire, Life
"Did you ever to think, maybe your not too big? Maybe this town's just to small? "
Tim Burton, Life
"Why would you want to go up there, when people are dying to get down here?"
Tim Burton, Life
"And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said "I think I need a hair."
Tim Burton, Life
"One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life."
Tim Burton, Love, Life
"And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing..."
Tim Burton, Life
"For some of us, Halloween is everyday."
Tim Burton, Life
"Fire can heat you up, cook your food and burn down your house."
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"A scorpion might be small but its sting can kill you."
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"When I was young I worried I was too short, as an adult I now worry more that I am too broke."
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"I highly doubt that everyone agrees who became Ms. Universe. Every country has their own standard for beauty and intelligence."
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"Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. "
Peter Drucker, Life
"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."
Peter Drucker, Life, Mistakes
"There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all."
Peter Drucker, Life
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
Peter Drucker, Life
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
Oscar Wilde, Life
"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
Oscar Wilde, Life
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
Oscar Wilde, Life
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Oscar Wilde, Life
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
Oscar Wilde, Life
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Life
"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Life
"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."
Michelangelo, Life
"Take care of yourself, and watch out for those you have to watch out for, for one does not die more than once, and nobody returns to put right the things done wrong."
Michelangelo, Life
"Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life."
Michelangelo, Life
"He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear."
Julius Caesar, Life
"Ask yourself this whenever you are dreaming about what wonderful things you would do when you retire: Will I make it to retirement?"
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"There are people who waste a lot of time trying to know the meaning of life, while there are those who are too busy living life to think about it."
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"Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice."
Henry Ford, Life
"I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so f**kin' heroic."
George Carlin, Life
"We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We’ve learned how to make a living but not a life. We’ve added years to life, not life to years."
George Carlin, Life
"People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Life
"Today is life -- the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."
Dale Carnegie , Life
"Actions speak louder than words. A smile says, 'I like you. I am glad to see you.'"
Dale Carnegie , Life
"The average person is more interested in her own name than in all the other names on earth put together."
Dale Carnegie , Life
"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self."
Benjamin Franklin, Life
"Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody."
Benjamin Franklin, Life
"There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him."
Benjamin Franklin, Life
"When you are finished changing, you’re finished."
Benjamin Franklin, Life
"Don’t misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer."
Benjamin Franklin, Life
"Don’t go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst."
Benjamin Franklin, Life
"We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!"
Benjamin Franklin, Life
"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart."
Benjamin Franklin, Life
"Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices."
Benjamin Franklin, Life
"In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
Benjamin Franklin, Life
"Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming."
Benjamin Franklin, Life
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
Benjamin Franklin, Life
"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
Albert Einstein, Life
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
Albert Einstein, Life
"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
Albert Einstein, Life
"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Albert Einstein, Life
"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
Albert Einstein, Life
"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
Albert Einstein, Truth, Life
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
Albert Einstein, Life
"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."
Albert Einstein, Life
"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
Albert Einstein, Life
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
Albert Einstein, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
Albert Einstein, Life
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein, Life
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
Albert Einstein, Life
"It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy."
Sun Tzu, Life
"We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."
Confucius, Life
"Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean."
Confucius, Life
"The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it."
Confucius, Life
"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."
Confucius, Life
"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."
Confucius, Life
"A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words."
Confucius, Life
"If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind."
Lao Tzu, Life
"New Beginnings are often disguised as painful endings."