Life famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
-- A. A. Milne -
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
-- A. A. Milne -
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
-- A. A. Milne -
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
-- A. A. Milne -
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
-- A. A. Milne -
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
-- A. C. Benson -
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
-- A. C. Benson -
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
-- A. E. Housman -
Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.
-- A. E. Housman -
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
-- A. E. Housman -
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
-- A. P. Herbert -
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
-- A. P. Herbert -
Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.
-- A. Powell Davies -
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
-- A. R. Ammons -
If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.
-- A. Theodore Tuttle -
A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.
-- A.J. Cronin -
I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by ***** yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?
-- A.S. King -
I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute
-- A.S. King -
We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.
-- A.S. King -
Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before.
-- Aaron Hill -
I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
-- Aaron Yoo -
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: The word "sacred" means that a heart which has not disengaged itself from the sphere of the soul and the sphere of created beings is forbidden to penetrate into this place. . . . "Wherever you are, turn your face" [toward the sacred Mosque] means, "Wherever you are, in the accomplishment of works of worship or in the ordinary acts of life, contemplate Him - in what you eat, in what you drink, in him or her whom you marry, always knowing that He is at once the Contemplator and the Contemplated. . . ."
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi -
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
-- Abigail Adams -
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
-- Abraham Cahan -
A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
-- Abraham Cowley -
His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!
-- Abraham Cowley -
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Don't believe everything you read on the internet.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
-- Abraham Maslow -
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
-- Abraham Maslow -
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
-- Abraham Maslow -
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
-- Abraham Maslow -
We need a way of life in which the animal, guided by reason, may romp but will not bite.
-- Abraham Myerson -
You live it forward, but understand it backward.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbor, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.
-- Adam Lindsay Gordon -
I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go.
-- Adam Lindsay Gordon -
Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.
-- Adam Michnik -
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
-- Adam Smith -
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
-- Adam Smith -
Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter -
Don't trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.
-- Adeline Yen Mah -
Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?
-- Adrienne Rich -
A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
-- Adrienne Rich -
Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.
-- Adyashanti -
Now don't think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
-- Adyashanti -
The most difficult thing for spiritual seekers to do is to stop struggling, striving, seeking, and searching. Why? Because in the absence of struggle you don't know who you are; you lose your boundaries, you lose your separateness, you lose your specialness, you lose the dream you have lived all your life. Eventually you lose everything that your mind has created and awaken to who you truly are: the fullness of freedom, unbound by any identifications, identities, or boundaries.
-- Adyashanti -
The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.
-- Adyashanti -
Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
-- Aeschylus -
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
-- Aesop -
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop -
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
-- Aesop -
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
-- Aesop -
Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
-- Aga Khan III -
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
-- Agatha Christie -
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
-- Agatha Christie -
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
-- Agatha Christie -
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
-- Agnes de Mille
