Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant by his marks,- Golden curls, and quiver, and bow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love; With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above. His blinding light He flingeth white On God's and Satan's brood, And reconciles By mystic wiles The evil and the good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no days in life that are so memorable as those that vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The never-ending task of self improvement.

Shania Twain

The streets of hell are paved with good intentions.

Shania Twain

I'll always be there I'd give anything and everything And I will always care Through weekness and strength Happiness and sorrow For better or for worse I will love you With every beat of my heart.

Shania Twain

When I first saw you, I saw love And the first time you touched me, I felt love And after all this time, You're still the one I love.

Shania Twain

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

Selena Gomez

You can successfully take a jab at your ex without having everyone criticize you for it.

Selena Gomez

Going through a rough break-up? Nothing a little dance party with friends can't ease.

Selena Gomez

Speaking of friends, the best ones always have your back.

Selena Gomez

Being single can pave the way for new opportunities.

Selena Gomez

You can have it all without suffering from a meltdown.

Selena Gomez

Childhood decisions do not have to define you.

Selena Gomez

It's always better to be real.

Shusaku Endo

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

Shunryu Suzuki

In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you cook, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you clean the floor, there is a chance to attain enlightenment.

Shunryu Suzuki

Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.

Shunryu Suzuki

The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.

Shunryu Suzuki

Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.

Shirley Bassey

How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!

Shannon Hoon

When life is hard, you have to change.

Seth Shostak

There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the Sun and its retinue of worlds is only one system among many, then many other systems will be like ours: home to life. Indeed, to the extent that this is true, we should be prepared for the possibility that, even in the Milky Way galaxy, billions of planets may be carpeted by the dirty, nasty business known as life.

Sean O'Casey

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

Sean O'Casey

To me life is simply an invitation to live.

Li Ka-shing

I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.

Lewis Mumford

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

Lewis Mumford

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.