Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rabindranath Tagore

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Rabindranath Tagore

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

Rabindranath Tagore

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Rabindranath Tagore

Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.

Queen Victoria

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.

Queen Elizabeth II

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Queen Elizabeth II

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Queen Elizabeth II

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Pythagoras

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

Queen Latifah

There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

Pitbull

Life is to live it, not to let it live you.

Plato

The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.

Terence McKenna

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.

Terence McKenna

I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.

Terence McKenna

Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.

Terence McKenna

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

Terence McKenna

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

Terence McKenna

The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

Terence McKenna

Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

Temple Grandin

My life is basically my work.

Tecumseh

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man believes he has a greater possibility.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first wealth is health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.