Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walt Whitman

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

Walt Whitman

Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.

Walt Whitman

Those who love each other shall become invincible.

Walt Whitman

Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over...

Walt Whitman

Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy!

Walt Whitman

Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.

Walt Whitman

Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.

Walt Whitman

These are the days that must happen to you.

Walt Whitman

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

Walt Whitman

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

Walt Whitman

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

Walt Whitman

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

Walt Whitman

In the faces of men and women, I see God.

Walt Whitman

Be curious, not judgmental.

Saul Bellow

Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his or her "characteristics," all the emotions, strivings, tastes, and constructions which it pleases us to call "My Life." We have grounds to hope that a Life is something more than a cloud of particles, mere facticity. Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.

Saul Alinsky

Life is there ahead of you and either one tests oneself in its challenges or huddles in the valleys of a dreamless day-to-day existence whose only purpose is the preservation of a illusory security and safety. The latter is what the vast majority of people choose to do, fearing the adventure into the known.

Saul Alinsky

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

Saul Bellow

There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

Saul Bellow

My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?

Saul Bellow

Let the enemies of life step down.

Saul Bellow

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

Saul Bellow

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.

Sarah Dessen

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

Sarah Dessen

Maybe marriage, like life, is'nt only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things—like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day—that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond.

Sarah Dessen

We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe even forever. That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now.

Sarah Dessen

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.

Sarah Dessen

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

Sarah Dessen

Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.

Sarah Dessen

But it's strange, when you've always been told something is true, like the moon will come back. You need proof. And while you wait, you feel the entire balance of your world just tipping. It's crazy. But when it's over, and it does come back, that's the best, because it's all you want, everything narrows to just that. It's this great rush, like for that one second everything's okay with the world again. It's amazing.

Sarah Dessen

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

Sarah Dessen

Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy.

Sarah Dessen

Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.