Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas J. Watson

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

Thomas Keating

Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

That was indeed to live -- at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Though I be shut in darkness, and become insentient dust blown idly here and there, I count oblivion a scant price to pay for having once had held against my lip life's brimming cup of hydromel and rue--for having once known woman's holy love and a child's kiss, and for a little space been boon companion to the Day and Night, Fed on the odors of the summer dawn, and folded in the beauty of the stars. Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, and serve the potter as he turns his wheel, I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.

Thomas Brooks

Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all

Ville Valo

I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.

Vijay Mallya

I live life what I consider to be normal.

Viggo Mortensen

If I can get a day to myself, I won't answer the phone, I'll read or go for a walk. Simple, basic things. People think there's always time to do that but there isn't. Life is short.

Victoria Clark

Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.

Victor Cousin

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Victor Hugo

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

Victor Hugo

We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? no. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty.

Victor Hugo

What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair.

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

Hal Sutton

We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it.

Greta Garbo

I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is disintegration.

Just as you are unconsciously influenced by outside advertisement, announcement, and appeal, so you can vitally influence your life from within by auto-suggestion. The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.

By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.

Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. The little pin-pricks of daily life when dwelt upon and magnified, may do great damage, but if ignored or dismissed from thought, will disappear from inanition.

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

Life is so great in its opportunities and possibilities, that you should rise confidently above the inevitable trifles incident to daily contact with the world. Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential.

Gretchen Rubin

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

Gordon B. Hinckley

As you walk the road of life, be careful of your friends. They can make you or break you.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured

Gordon B. Hinckley

Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old time rail journey…delays…sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling burst of speed. The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

I insist that men shall have the right to work out their lives in their own way, always allowing to others the right to work out their lives in their own way, too.

Geri Halliwell

It's important to learn to laugh at ourselves. Don't take life too seriously.

Horace

In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.