Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

All that is worth remembering of life is the poetry of it

Alfred Adler

All neurotic symptoms have as their object the task of safeguarding the patient's self-esteem and thereby also the lifeline into which he has grown.

Susanne Bier

The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.

Eric Hoffer

An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.

Eric Hoffer

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

Eric Hoffer

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

Eric Hoffer

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Eric Hoffer

The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.

Eric Hoffer

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Eric Hoffer

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Eric Hoffer

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Berne

Whatever you do, think of next morning's headlines.

Eric Berne

Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

Emo Philips

I'm filthy stinking rich - well, two out of three ain't bad.

The idea being that, over the life of the business, they make their money off software and peripherals.

Shirin Neshat

The first years of my life in the U.S. were very difficult.

The first weekend in September stands for the pure zest for life. A warm welcome to Berlin!

Emmeline Pankhurst

...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life.

Emmitt Smith

Marriage is not something that's easy, but nothing in life is easy.

Emmet Fox

Life is a state of consciousness.

Emmet Fox

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

James Cash Penney

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

James Altucher

People build up a life, it becomes unsatisfactory, and they want to figure out how to change it like an outfit on a doll. But you can’t change life from the outside. We all know this now.

James Altucher

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes

James Altucher

Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.

James Allen

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

James Allen

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

James Allen

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

James Anthony Froude

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

James Anthony Froude

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Jake Gyllenhaal

My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.

Jacques Monod

Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if not the stigmata of its ancestry.

Friedrich Schiller

O God, how lovely still is life!