Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joyce Cary

I had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea of them embodied in the person of Jesus, a picture always present to our imagination as well as our feelings.

Joyce Cary

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Joyce Cary

The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.

Ouida

Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.

Otto von Bismarck

I have never lived on principles. When I have had to act, I never first asked myself on what principles I was going to act, but I went at it and did what I thought fit. I have often reproached myself for my want of principle.

Oscar Wilde

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

Oscar Wilde

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

Oscar Wilde

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

Oscar Wilde

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

Oscar Wilde

Life is too short to learn German

Oscar Wilde

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Oscar Wilde

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Kathryn Stockett

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

Kanye West

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.

Kanye West

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

Kami Garcia

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Kami Garcia

There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.

June Carter Cash

Inside that book, it's my life-all the places where I'm hurting or I laughed or I cried or I prayed. And I've had to pray a lot!

June Jordan

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

Julie Taymor

My God, it transformed me. My life changed.

Julian Lennon

Anyone must remember that dad left when I was 3 years old, mom and I lived out of the limelight. We lived a totally different life.

Julian Fellowes

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

Julian Fellowes

The business of life is learning that you can't lay down the terms.

Judy Collins

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

Joyce Meyer

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.

Joyce Meyer

I want to focus on God's grace and give thanks for all the good things in my life. I don't want to focus on what I don't have.

Joyce Meyer

We almost always see only what's wrong with other people and not what's wrong with us.

Maria Semple

That's right,' she told the girls. 'You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.

Maria Semple

I felt so full of love for everything. But at the same time, I felt so hung out there to dry, like nobody could ever understand. I felt so alone in this world, and so loved at the same time.

Maria Shriver

The love and laughter are what you need most in your life. They'll fill out all the potholes in the road.

Paul Tournier

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Paul Tillich

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Theroux

Everyone had an opinion and no one had a solution.