Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sandburg

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

Carl Sandburg

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

Camila Alves

Anytime I am doing something that will help someone in any way, whether it is a simple recipe, a tip, a decoration thing, or a life-change thing, it brings me to life and inspires me to do more of it.

C. S. Lewis

This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there’s a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life.

C. S. Lewis

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

C. S. Lewis

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

C. S. Lewis

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

C. S. Lewis

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

C. S. Lewis

Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

C. S. Lewis

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

C. S. Lewis

One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.

C. S. Lewis

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

C. S. Lewis

Do not dare not to dare.

C. S. Lewis

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

C. S. Lewis

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

Michel de Montaigne

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Miley Cyrus

Life is all about having a good time.

Matthew Arnold

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.

Calvin Coolidge

Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.

Calvin Coolidge

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

Calvin Coolidge

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Calvin Coolidge

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Calvin Coolidge

Life is one darn thing after another.

Bryant H. McGill

Food is a part of our contract with life.

Bryant H. McGill

If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve.

Bryant H. McGill

Life has a way of shining on people who stand in the sunshine of kind actions.

Bryant H. McGill

Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

Bryant H. McGill

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

Bryant H. McGill

You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving.

Bryant H. McGill

You do not have to do anything to defend yourself in life; just be beautiful, and life will defend you.

Celine Dion

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

Carson Kressley

I learned how to dance. I got a free spray tan. My life is good!