Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Moss Hart

Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!

Mother Teresa

Life is not worth living unless it is lived for others.

Mother Teresa

Be a living expression of God's kindness.

Mother Teresa

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life.

Mother Teresa

Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

Mother Teresa

You who have received so much love, show your love by protecting the sacredness of life. The sacredness of life is the greatest gifts that God has given us.

Mother Teresa

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Victor Hugo

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

Victor Hugo

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Victor Hugo

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Victor Hugo

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Victor Hugo

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

Victor Hugo

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Victor Hugo

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Vicki Baum

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

Vernon Howard

Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine. To split life into two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption, is to be caught between them.

Vernon Howard

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

Vernon Howard

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

Richard Bach

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

Richard Bach

The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life; find what we most want to do; do it, no matter what; and in the doing be guaranteed a very difficult and a very happy lifetime.

Richard Bach

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

Richard Bach

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

Richard Bach

Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.

Richard Bach

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

Richard Bach

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Richard Bach

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

Richard Bach

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.