Famous Quotes & Sayings

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love's very pain is sweet, But its reward is in the world divine Which, if not here, it builds beyond the grave.

Pauley Perrette

I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.

Pauline Kael

Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided ...

Paul Tsongas

A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

Paul Young

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships, so will our healing.

Paul Watzlawick

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

Mel Gibson

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.

Meher Baba

Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

Mel Brooks

That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.

Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.

There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Mary Oliver

Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?

Mary Oliver

I know many lives worth living.

Mary Oliver

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

Mary Oliver

Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

Mary Oliver

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing

Mary Oliver

And I say to my heart: rave on.

Mary Oliver

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

Mary Oliver

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

Mary Catherine Bateson

As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

Mary Catherine Bateson

In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today we are migrants in time. Unless teachers can hold up a model of lifelong learning and adaptation, graduates are likely to find themselves trapped into obsolescence as the world changes around them. Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Sometimes you get there in spite of the route Losing track of your life and what it's about The road seems to know when to straighten right out... I could wonder if all of it led me to you I could show you the arrows and circles I drew I didn't have a map, it's the best I could do On the fly and on the run

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Tonight, the moon came out, it was nearly full. Way down here on earth, I could feel it's pull. The weight of gravity or just the lure of life, Made me want to leave my only home tonight. I'm just wondering how we know where we belong Is it in the arc of the moon, leaving shadows on the lawn In the path of fireflies and a single bird at dawn Singing in between here and gone

Mary Chapin Carpenter

Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?

Martin Bashir

I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.

Martin Buber

The ones who count are those persons who - though they may be of little renown - respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.

Martin Buber

Every morning I shall concern myself anew about the boundary Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No And pressing forward honor reality. We cannot avoid Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.