Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fernando Pessoa

As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.

Fernando Pessoa

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Fernando Pessoa

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

Felicia Hemans

Alas! for love, if thou art all, And nought beyond, O earth.

Federico Fellini

We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.

Federico Fellini

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

Federico Fellini

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

Federico Fellini

A different language is a different vision of life.

Fay Weldon

Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Life is laughter amid a rosary of death.

Federico Garcia Lorca

The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.

Fanny Kemble

A sacred burden is this life ye bear, Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly; Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.

Fannie Hurst

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

Faith Hill

In order to succeed, you can't be afraid to fail. Just do it and don't let anybody tell you you can't.

Ezra Pound

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Ezra Taft Benson

Be a light unto the world, a standard to others. You can live in the world and not partake of the sins of the world. You can live life joyously, beautifully, unmarred by the ugliness of sin. This is our confidence in you.

Ezra Taft Benson

Pride does not look up to God and care about what is right. It looks sideways to man and argues who is right. Pride is manifest in the spirit of contention. Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men. Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was not my will, but thine be done

Ezra Taft Benson

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin. We are not speaking of a wholesome view of self-worth, which is best established by a close relationship with God. But we are speaking of pride as the universal sin, as someone has described it. . . . Essentially, pride is a "my will" rather than "thy will" approach to life. The opposite of pride is humbleness, meekness, submissiveness, or teachableness.

Ezra Taft Benson

Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

Ezra Taft Benson

We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives.

Ezra Taft Benson

Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their soals, and pour out peace.

Ezra Taft Benson

The high cost of low living.

Ezra Taft Benson

Acknowledging the Lord's hand in our lives cultivates gratitude. . . .

Ezra Taft Benson

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Eve Ensler

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.

Eugene O'Neill

Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.

Eugene O'Neill

Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.

Eugene O'Neill

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Eugene O'Neill

It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!

Eugene O'Neill

Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

Eugene O'Neill

Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.

Eugene O'Neill

If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.

Euripides

Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.