Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Levine

Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over their shoulders at their lives, shaking their heads and muttering in bewilderment, "What was that all about?"

Stephen Levine

Death is just a change in lifestyles.

Stephen Leacock

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Stephen Leacock

How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.

Stephen King

Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.

Stephen King

It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have.

Ellen Page

I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.

Ellen Page

Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.

Ellen Page

Love, the beauty of it, the joy of it and yes, even the pain of it, is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being. And we deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.

Elizabeth Smart

What you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More.

Scott Westerfeld

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

Scott Adams

The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.

Scott Adams

On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.

Scott Adams

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

Ray Davies

Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.

Ray Davies

All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.

Ray Davies

The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting and the amount of food and alcohol consumed in the course of daily survival. Sure, there were girls. Lots of'em. It's inevitable.

Raph Koster

When do you do things for the love of it? Always. If you're not feeling that, go do something else. Life is too short.

Ransom Riggs

Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of these ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries - but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.

Ransom Riggs

Our debt was too great and the words thank you too small.

Ransom Riggs

There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret. Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.

Randy Alcorn

What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.

Randy Alcorn

Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.

Rajneesh

You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.

Rajneesh

That's why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.

Rajneesh

Never obey anyone's command unless it is coming from within you also.

Rajneesh

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.

Rajneesh

Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.

Rajneesh

Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage it everything misfire.

Rajneesh

Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.

Rajneesh

If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.

Rajneesh

Only silence communicates the truth as it is.

Rajneesh

It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.