Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Aurelius

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

Marcus Aurelius

Each day provides its own gifts.

Marcus Aurelius

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Marcus Aurelius

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Marcus Aurelius

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

Marcus Aurelius

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Marcus Aurelius

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Marcus Aurelius

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

Marcus Aurelius

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Marc Jacobs

I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.

Marc Chagall

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

Marc Chagall

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

Marc Chagall

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Thomas a Kempis

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

Thomas a Kempis

Out of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

Thomas a Kempis

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

Thomas a Kempis

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Thomas a Kempis

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Thomas A. Edison

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

Thomas A. Edison

The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~

Thomas A. Edison

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Thomas A. Edison

I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow workers to put forth my best efforts in my work. I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I do not believe I could have accomplished a great deal. This country would not amount to as much as it does if the young men of fifty years ago had been afraid that they might earn more than they were paid for.

Thomas A. Edison

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Thomas A. Edison

I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.