Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathe Kollwitz

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.

Katherine Dunn

Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.

Katherine Anne Porter

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

Karen Armstrong

Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

Joyce Meyer

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.

Joyce Meyer

You are a preacher! Maybe not with your mouth all the time like me, but as a believer in Christ, your life is a living sermon.

Joyce Meyer

Life is not fair; God is.

Joyce Meyer

We must remember there are different seasons in our lives and let God do what He wants to do in each of those seasons.

Joyce Meyer

Whatever your situation, God wants to heal you, strengthen you, and lead you to a place where you can enjoy life again.

Joyce Meyer

If you can't control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.

Joyce Meyer

Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.

Joyce Meyer

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

Katharine Hepburn

Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death.

Katharine Hepburn

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

Katharine Hepburn

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Katharine Hepburn

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Katharine Hepburn

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Karen Kingsbury

Life changes, people come and go and seasons never last. Karen kingsbury # Leaving

Justin Rosenstein

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact?

Judith Wright

We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project.

Judith Viorst

as we acquire new aches and new pains, our health care is, of necessity, being supplied by internists, cardiologists, dermatologists, podiatrists, urologists, periodontists, gynecologists and psychiatrists, from all of whom we want a second opinion. We want a second opinion that says, don't worry, you are going to live forever.

Judith Viorst

Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

Judy Blume

I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

Josh Lawson

I directed one of my shorts that did festivals around the world, and that was great. I've got a bit of a bug for that now. I just hope I keep challenging myself and keep doing stuff that interests me with people who I respect and who teach me stuff. If I can keep doing that in anything - acting, writing, directing or whatever - I'll do it because life is short.

Joseph Conrad

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

Joseph Conrad

A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

Joseph Conrad

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.

Joseph Conrad

Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.

Joseph Conrad

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Joseph Conrad

No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.

Joseph Conrad

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Joseph Conrad

Like a flash of lightning between the clouds, we live in the flicker.

Joseph Conrad

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.