Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Cousins

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

Norman Cousins

The control center of your life is your attitude.

Norman Cousins

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

Nina Simone

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

Nina Garcia

Style is a deeply personal expression of who you are, and every time you dress, you are asserting a part of yourself.

Mitch Albom

Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.

Mitch Albom

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Mitch Albom

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

Mitch Albom

There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.

Mitch Albom

This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

Mitch Albom

I like myself better when I'm with you.

Mike White

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

Mike Tyson

Things can change. Life is all a learning process.

Mike Tyson

I don't do anything. My life sucks.

Mike Tyson

Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.

Miguel de Cervantes

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Miguel de Cervantes

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Miguel de Cervantes

The road to the inn is much better than the stay.

Miguel de Cervantes

"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."

Miguel de Cervantes

Bien predica quien bien vive. He who lives well is the best preacher.

Miguel de Cervantes

It is good to live and learn.

Miguel de Cervantes

There's no love lost between us.

Miguel de Cervantes

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Miguel de Cervantes

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

So not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

Neil Gaiman

It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.

Neil Gaiman

Truly life is wasted on the living...

Neil Gaiman

Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

Neil Gaiman

Lives are snowflakes -- forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.

Neil Gaiman

That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.

Neil Gaiman

I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.

Neil Gaiman

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

Neil Gaiman

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.