Famous Quotes & Sayings

Flannery O'Connor

Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion to the Bible, which has kept our minds attached to the concrete and the living symbol.

Flannery O'Connor

When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

Finn Taylor

There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff.

Henry Moore

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

Henry Miller

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

Henry Miller

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Henry Miller

'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

Henry Miller

The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.

Henry Miller

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

Henry Miller

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

Henry Miller

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Henry Miller

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

Henry Miller

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

Henry Miller

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Henry Miller

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Miller

Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable.

Henry Miller

The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world.

Henri Bergson

For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.

Henri Bergson

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Analysis kills spontaneity.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Hope is only the love of life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

Henri Frederic Amiel

I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me -- and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Helen Keller

I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!

Helen Keller

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

Helen Keller

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Helen Keller

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Helen Keller

Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with useful deeds than with many prayers or pious resignation. The temple or church is empty unless the good of life fills it . . . holy if only . . . we offer the only sacrifices ever commanded-the love that is stronger than hate and the faith that overcometh doubt.

Helen Keller

Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.