Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Lloyd Wright

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Frank A. Clark

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

Frank A. Clark

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

George Cukor

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

George Crabbe

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

George Crabbe

Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views, Life's little cares and little pains refuse? Shall he not rather feel a double share Of mortal woe, when doubly arm'd to bear?

George Crabbe

Life's bloomy flush was lost.

George Crabbe

Life is not measured by the time we live.

George Crabbe

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

Elisha Cuthbert

Life is funny and it is interesting how we make it as serious as possible.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

When you spend your life doing what you love to do, you are nourishing your Soul. It matters not what you do, only that you love whatever you happen to do.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Eknath Easwaran

Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.

Eknath Easwaran

The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can actually choose the direction of our thoughts instead of just letting them run along the grooves of conditioned thinking, we become the masters of our own lives.

John Burroughs

Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.

John Burroughs

I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality of the Nature Providence is best; that we are made strong by what we overcome; that man is man because he is as free to do evil as to do good; that life is as free to develop hostile forms as to develop friendly; that power waits upon him who earns it; that disease, wars, the unloosened, devastating elemental forces have each and all played their part in developing and hardening man and giving him the heroic fiber.

John Burroughs

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

John Burroughs

If you think you can do it, you can.

John Burroughs

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

John Burroughs

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

John Burroughs

Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.

John Bunyan

To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.

Joel Osteen

Life is short. You can't afford to put off what God has put in your heart. You don't have time to live with things holding you back.

Joel Osteen

Let go of the old, take hold of the new and believe that 2013 will be your best year yet!

Joel Osteen

Life is short. Don't miss opportunities to spend time with the people that you love.

Joel Osteen

Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable. Don't let fear intimidate you.

Joel Osteen

Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.