Famous Quotes & Sayings

August Wilson

There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death. Each of us rides them both. To live life with dignity, to celebrate and accept responsibility for your presence in the world is all that can be asked of anyone.

August Wilson

Life don't owe you nothing.

Audrey Hepburn

My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.

Audrey Hepburn

I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment.

Audrey Hepburn

No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself

Audrey Hepburn

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

Audre Lorde

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Audre Lorde

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

Audre Lorde

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

Arthur Rubinstein

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Arthur Rubinstein

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

Arthur Rubinstein

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Arthur Rimbaud

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Arthur Rimbaud

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Arnold Bennett

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

Arnold Bennett

The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives it, is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.

Arnold Bennett

The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.

Arnold Bennett

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He who breathes deepest lives most.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Edwin Way Teale

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.

Edwin Way Teale

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Edwin Louis Cole

Attitude determines the altitude of life.

Edwin Land

The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A life is black, whiten it as you will.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.