Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joel Osteen

Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness.

Joel Osteen

This is not the time to shrink back in fear. Move forward in faith. Get up every morning knowing you are gifted.

Joel Osteen

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

Joel Osteen

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right.

Joel Osteen

When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing them to control you.

Joel Osteen

Life is going by. Don't waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.

Joel Osteen

You can be happy where you are.

Joel Osteen

Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.

Joe Arpaio

Everything I do in my life is very aggressive.

Joe Bastianich

Restaurant Man is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

Joe Biden

The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

Joan Baez

My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.

Joan Collins

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.

Jimmy Page

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

Louise Hay

Life can't give to you if your hands are closed. Open your mind, open your heart, and open your arms.

Louise Hay

I am totally safe in the Universe. I am at peace everywhere. I trust life.

Louise Hay

Each day is a start of a new adventure, and I eagerly look forward to today.

Louise Hay

Everything I need to know is revealed to me. Everything I need comes to me. All is well in my life.

Lou Reed

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

Logan Pearsall Smith

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

Logan Pearsall Smith

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Lois Lowry

Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.

Lois Lowry

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

Lois Lowry

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

Lois Lowry

Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.

Lois Lowry

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.

Lloyd Alexander

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

Lloyd Alexander

We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.

Mao Zedong

Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat a tiny worm. A thousand villages collapsed, were choked with weeds, men were lost arrows. Ghosts sang in the doorway of a few desolate houses. Yet now in a day we leap around the earth or explore a thousand Milky Ways. And if the cowherd who lives on a star asks about the god of plagues, tell him, happy or sad, the god is gone, washed away in the waters. July 1, 1958

Madeleine M. Kunin

One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.

Madeleine L'Engle

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

Madeleine L'Engle

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.

Madeleine L'Engle

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.