Tahar Ben Jelloun: For me,...

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
/Tahar Ben Jelloun/

Neale Donald Walsch: The new...

The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.
/Neale Donald Walsch/

Alicia Britt Chole: Truth to...

Truth to me was dead, God had never lived, life was full of pain, and death was the end of life. As a young Atheist, I sincerely believed that man had created God to fill the gaps in knowledge that would never be spanned by experience, reason, or science. In 1983 the God who pursues those who deny him interrupted my existence, he captured my soul with raw love. Two decades later, God's tangible friendship still amazes me. To deny his existence I'd have to first deny my own.
/Alicia Britt Chole/

Richard Bach: How do...

How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you're still alive, it isn't.
/Richard Bach/

Bryan Adams: Trying to...

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.
/Bryan Adams/

Elias Canetti: One should...

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
/Elias Canetti/

Tina Yothers: I had...

I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.
/Tina Yothers/

LaToya Jackson: This is...

This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.
/LaToya Jackson/

Lillie Langtry: I've put...

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.
/Lillie Langtry/

Albert Einstein: How strange...

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
/Albert Einstein/

William Makepeace Thackeray: Let a...

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
/William Makepeace Thackeray/

Gilbert Parker: But paying...

But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave.
/Gilbert Parker/

Karl Jaspers: The study...

The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.
/Karl Jaspers/

William Wordsworth: The best...

The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
/William Wordsworth/

George Gordon Byron: It is...

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
/George Gordon Byron/

Friedrich Nietzsche: If we...

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.
/Friedrich Nietzsche/

Martin H. Fischer: Life is...

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
/Martin H. Fischer/

Franz Kafka: Life's splendor...

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.
/Franz Kafka/

John W. Gardner: I've watched...

I've watched a lot of mid-career people, and Yogi Berra says you can observe a lot just by watching. I've concluded that most people enjoy learning and growing. And many are dearly troubled by the self-assessments of mid-career. Such self-assessments are no great problem at your age. You're young and moving up. The drama of your own rise is enough. But when you reach middle age, when your energies aren't what they used to be, then you'll begin to wonder what it all added up to; you'll begin to look for the figure in the carpet of your life. I have some simple advice for you when you begin that process. Don't be too hard on yourself. Look ahead. Someone said that Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. And above all don't imagine that the story is over. Life has a lot of chapters.
/John W. Gardner/

Fritz Perls: To mature...

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
/Fritz Perls/

John Patrick: Pain makes...

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
/John Patrick/

Hubert Humphrey: ...the moral...

...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
/Hubert Humphrey/

Mandy Patinkin: We did...

We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.
/Mandy Patinkin/

Sidney Jourard: We begin...

We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Someone - our parents, teachers, analysts - hypnotizes us to see the world and construe it in the right way. These others label the world, attach names and give voices to the beings and events in it, so that thereafter, we cannot read the world in any other language or hear it saying other things to us. The task is to break the hypnotic spell, so that we become undeaf, unblind and multilingual, thereby letting the world speak to us in new voices and write all its possible meanings in the new book of our existence. Be careful in your choice of hypnotists.
/Sidney Jourard/

Bertrand Russell: What else...

What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a voice of one drowning, and in a moment the silence returns. The world seems to me quite dreadful, the unhappiness of many people is very great, and I often wonder how they all endure it. It is usually the central thing around which their lives are built, and I suppose if they did not live most of their lives in the things of the moment, they would not be able to go on.
/Bertrand Russell/

Don Quixote: Sanity may...

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
/Don Quixote/

Kazuo Ishiguro: When I...

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.
/Kazuo Ishiguro/

Paracelsus: So long...

So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.
/Paracelsus/

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Courtesy Life...

Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

Benjamin Disraeli: Read no...

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
/Benjamin Disraeli/