Life And Love famous quotes
06-13-2025
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The best of the people are the first to greet others.
-- Abu Umamah al Bahili -
Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.
-- Alan Cohen -
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
-- Alan Perlis -
Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.
-- Alan Watts -
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
-- Albert Einstein -
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
-- Albert Einstein -
Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!
-- Aleister Crowley -
The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation. He is 'The Devil' of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is BAPHOMET, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection... He is therefore Life, and Love.
-- Aleister Crowley -
The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in our culture. It is the means we adopt to protect ourselves against being hurt, but when such attitudes become characterological or structured in the personality, they constitute a more severe hurt and create a greater crippling than the one originally suffered.
-- Alexander Lowen -
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
-- Alexander Smith -
For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born.
-- Alice Freeman Palmer -
To be lovingly present through the primal, naked pain that marks aspects of birth, and to be lovingly present through the difficult, heart-wrenching ending that marks aspects of death is to learn about life and love. Fear may be strong but love is stronger. Learning how to love includes learning how to make room for and transform fear. Learning how to live involves learning how to die. Love alone is the most potent power illuminating the breath's journey in between these thresholds. Love is the key. Love is the dance.
-- Amy Wright -
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them.
-- Andrew Greeley -
I cannot hold with those who want to put down the insignificant chatter of the world
-- Anthony Trollope -
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
-- Audre Lorde -
The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.
-- Benito Mussolini -
Joy is overwhelming fun - fun so big that it overflows your mind, heart, body - as if all of life and love were spilling into you and you were spilling out.
-- Bernie De Koven -
I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.
-- Billy Ray Cyrus -
beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.
-- Bob Marley -
Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.
-- Brian Tracy -
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
-- Carl Jung -
Try to remember the moment when all the stupid innocent things you thought about life and love, all the things you thought mattered, all the things you though were true. . .try to remember when they all turned out to be lies. —Kyle
-- Chad Kultgen -
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
-- Charles Horton Cooley -
I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.
-- Charlize Theron -
Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it.
-- Chris Brogan -
Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.
-- Christine Feehan -
Dreamers are those who have achieved in love and life, because it is a dream that got them there.
-- Cindy Sherman -
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
-- Clarence Darrow -
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
-- Dale Carnegie -
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'
-- Dave Barry -
A philosopher once noted that people long for immortality but run out of things to do on a rainy afternoon.
-- David Niven -
I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.
-- Deana Carter -
Strive not for perfection..but for lives and loves that matter.
-- Debora Spar -
Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.
-- Deepak Chopra -
If you're going to take gambles, you must have one thing: self-confidence.
-- Don Shula -
Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.
-- Doris "Granny D" Haddock -
Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.
-- Dwight L. Moody -
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
-- E. M. Forster -
No clouds are in the morning sky, The vapors hug the stream, Who says that life and love can die In all this northern gleam? At every turn the maples burn, The quail is whistling free, The partridge whirs, and the frosted burs Are dropping for you and me. Ho! hillyho! heigh O! Hillyho! In the clear October morning.
-- Edmund Clarence Stedman -
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
-- Edward Gibbon -
Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat
-- Eldridge Cleaver -
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
Follow the truth to life and love what you do... Be passionate about it to the point where you’re willing to do anything for it.
-- Elie Tahari -
Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.
-- Elvis Presley -
Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-- Epicurus -
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
-- Frank A. Clark -
I want free life, and I want fresh air; And I sigh for the canter after the cattle, The crack of the whip like shots in battle, The medley of horns, and hoofs, and heads That wars, and wrangles, and scatters and spreads; The green beneath and the blue above, And dash, and danger, and life and love.
-- Frank Desprez -
All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
-- Fred Rogers -
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.
-- George R. R. Martin -
The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come.
-- Giuseppe Mazzini -
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
-- Gregory Peck -
Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.
-- Guillermo Maldonado -
Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.
-- Gurumayi Chidvilasananda -
We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life; I think that would be fantastic.
-- Hank Green -
The greatest of men, they don't get too big to cry. They just loose faith in love and life.
-- Hank Williams, Jr. -
The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now
-- Haruki Murakami -
However mean your life is, meet it and live it.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
-- Herman Melville -
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken -
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey -
Life was short, no matter how many days you were granted. And people were precious, each and every one, no matter how many you were lucky enough to have in your life. And love... love was worth dying for. Worth living for, too. -Tohrment
-- J.R. Ward -
Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop. That wainscot to the carpenter, But my mind my tranquil and eternal Mind Return it to whom?
-- Jack Kerouac -
Most people will look back and realize they did not have a great life because it's just so easy to settle for a good life.
-- James C. Collins -
It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.
-- James D. Watson -
I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their absence....When the tears of bereavement have had their natural flow, they lead us again to life and love's generous joy.
-- James Martineau -
Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.
-- James Patterson -
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
There are no regrets in life, just lessons.
-- Jennifer Aniston -
The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
-- Jerry Pournelle -
My only relief is to sleep. When I'm sleeping, I'm not sad, I'm not angry, I'm not lonely, I'm nothing.
-- Jillian Medoff -
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
-- Jim Rohn -
In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still, In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot, I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not.
-- Joaquin Miller -
Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable. Don't let fear intimidate you.
-- Joel Osteen -
One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.
-- Johannes Brahms -
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
-- John Adams -
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker
-- John C. Maxwell -
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
-- John F. Kennedy -
When we are ready, [Jesus Christ's] pure love instantly moves across time and space, reaches down, and pulls us up from the depths of any tumultuous sea of darkness, sin, sorrow, death, or despair we may find ourselves in and brings us into the light and life and love of eternity.
-- John H. Groberg -
But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my delight in his fine and tender play. (...) Proof surprises us with its aliveness and intelligent modesty, and we have not met these characters before.
-- John Heilpern -
This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in their minds, and in the glowing crystal memory cells they all carry in the palms of their hands: a great idea of a second city, lit with life and love, reasonable drink prices at cool bars, and, of course, blocks and blocks of bright and devastating fire.
-- John Hodgman -
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
-- John Keats -
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
-- John Lubbock -
The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal. Life and love go on, let the music play.
-- Johnny Cash -
Life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We followed the chain of change. Till there came a time in the law of life When over the nursing sod The shadows broke and the soul awoke In a strange, dim dream of God.
-- Langdon Smith -
The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
-- Leo Buscaglia -
You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better.
-- Leon Brown -
You cannot expect miracles to happen overnight, be patient, be loving and little by little the change you seek will come.
-- Leon Brown -
Sometimes you have to experience the bad, so that you can learn to appreciate the good things that enter your life.
-- Leon Brown
