Browsing Quotes With Tag: life (97)
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We live each day as if it were merely a rehearsal for the next
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 25 Jun 2009 at 7:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No one seems to have thought of the fact that if life is absurd, being a brilliant success has no greater value than being a failure. It’s just more comfortable. And even then: I think lucidity gives your success a bitter taste, whereas mediocrity still leaves hope for something.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 23 Jun 2009 at 6:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Rather be dead than cool”
Speaker: Kurt CobainSource: BrainyquotePosted: 02 May 2009 at 6:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when the two are compared.
Speaker: James Matthew BarriePosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life is a grindstone; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you are made of.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He who dies with the most toys still dies.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:22 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Speaker: J.R.R. TolkienSource: The HobbitPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:40 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Speaker: Bertrand RussellPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 7:10 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Just remember, when you put yourself on a pedestal and elevate yourself above the rest of the world, the size of your funeral will still depend a lot on the weather.
Posted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are no ordinary people. It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I submit to you that if a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr.Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What you are is God’s gift to you; what you do with yourself is your gift to God.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your own actions. All life is an experiment.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life isn’t about finding yourself . . .
It’s about CREATING yourself.Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 10 Mar 2009 at 12:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are two ways to live your life . . .
One is as nothing is a miracle,
The other is as though everything is a miracleSpeaker: Albert EinsteinPosted: 10 Mar 2009 at 12:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Speaker: Franklin D. RooseveltSource: OnlinePosted: 10 Feb 2009 at 10:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!