Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Lopez

You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

Barry Lopez

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.

Barry Lopez

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

C. S. Lewis

Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.

Charles R. Swindoll

Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.

Blaise Pascal

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Calvin Coolidge

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.

Deepak Chopra

No matter what the situation is...close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.

Barbara Jordan

All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you?ve got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you?re going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.

Barbara Kingsolver

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Curiosity must be kept alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life was meant to be lived.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.

Alexander Woollcott

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Abbie Hoffman

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

Adrienne Rich

Life on the planet is born of woman.

Agatha Christie

One does what one can, not what one cannot.

Abraham Maslow

Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.

Abraham Lincoln

Always remember: Life is for enjoying.

Abraham Lincoln

Everybody likes a compliment.

Clement Mok

Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

Alice Munro

The constant happiness is curiosity.

Anne Lamott

You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

Alexander McCall Smith

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

Alexander McCall Smith

You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.

Donald Curtis

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Dwight L. Moody

More depends on my walk than talk.

Anna Quindlen

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.