George Eliot: I think...

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
/George Eliot/

Harry Mahtar: A gold...

A gold watch is the most appropriate gift for retirement, as its recipients have given up so many of their golden hours in a lifetime of service.
/Harry Mahtar/

Oscar Holmolka: To really...

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.
/Oscar Holmolka/

Clarence Darrow: None meet...

None meet life honestly and few heroically.
/Clarence Darrow/

Denis Waitley: That which...

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
/Denis Waitley/

George Bernard Shaw: I am...

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.
/George Bernard Shaw/

Ted Simon: There are...

There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhere there is a matrix for mankind and a holograph for the whole world. Nothing is more important in my life than trying to discover these secrets.
/Ted Simon/

Miles Davis: I'm always...

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
/Miles Davis/

Jay Inslee: But most...

But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life.
/Jay Inslee/

Walter Cronkite: I can't...

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
/Walter Cronkite/

Andrew Vachss: My life...

My life is triage.
/Andrew Vachss/

Thomas Jefferson: The happiest...

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
/Thomas Jefferson/

Buckminster Fuller: Never forget...

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
/Buckminster Fuller/

Charles M. Crowe: Easter is...

Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.
/Charles M. Crowe/

Anthony Robbins: The quality...

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.
/Anthony Robbins/

E. B. White: You have...

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
/E. B. White/

Anna Quindlen: Life is...

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
/Anna Quindlen/

Lucy Maud Montgomery: There is...

There is a great solitude about such a shore. The woods are never solitary- they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. We can never pierce its infinite mystery- we may only wander, awed and spell-bound, on the outer fringe of it. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only- a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
/Lucy Maud Montgomery/

Marcia Wieder: You can...

You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.
/Marcia Wieder/

Henry Lytton Bulwer: There are...

There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.
/Henry Lytton Bulwer/

Albert Einstein: The devil...

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
/Albert Einstein/

Brennan Manning: The dominant...

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust-not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
/Brennan Manning/

Sholom Aleichem: Life is...

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
/Sholom Aleichem/

George Bernard Shaw: There are...

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
/George Bernard Shaw/

Usher Raymond: Breaking up...

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
/Usher Raymond/

Samuel Johnson: When men...

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
/Samuel Johnson/

Lawrence Kasdan: But, I...

But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big Chill, sort of. Four friends, who are not quite happy with their life, and every year they get together for a week and look for some comfort from each other.
/Lawrence Kasdan/

Ogden Nash: I would...

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
/Ogden Nash/

Tom Dreesen: When I...

When I was growing up, my mom wanted me to become a priest, which I think is a tough occupation. Can you imagine giving up your sex life and then once a week people come in to tell you all the highlights of theirs?
/Tom Dreesen/