Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Simon

* She said, why don't we both just sleep on it tonight And I believe, in the morning you'll begin to see the light And then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right There must be fifty ways to leave your lover, fifty ways to leave your lover Paul Simon, Still Crazy After All These Years (1975), 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover First thing I remember when you came into my life I said I wanna get that girl, no matter what I do Well I guess I've been in love before and once or twice have been on the floor But I've never loved no-one the way that I love you.

Paul Simon

The problem is all inside your head, she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

Paul Simon

Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?

Paul Simon

And she said 'Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you're blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.'

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Paulo Coelho

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

Orson Scott Card

It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor . . . I fought to win.

Orson Scott Card

Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.

Orson Scott Card

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Orson Scott Card

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

Ram Dass

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

Ram Dass

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

Ram Dass

What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

Ram Dass

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.

Ram Dass

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

Ram Dass

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

Ram Dass

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

Ram Dass

The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.

Ram Dass

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

Ram Dass

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success- none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Ram Dass

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

Stacey Snider

You can't do everything, at the same time, always, and forever. But if you look at your life and your career as a long, winding river, you can get to your destination.

Damian Lewis

You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.

You can make your resolution and keep it for a year but if you don't make a lifetime affirmation of change, you'll be back in the same boat.

Ali Hewson

You can live your life being scared of losing someone, and at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you, and that's it.

(Wrestling) teaches you nothing comes easy. Nothing in life comes easy, so you have to work at it.

Stephen Jay Gould

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

Stephen Jay Gould

Among people I have met, the few whom I would term “great” all share a kind of unquestioned, fierce dedication; an utter lack of doubt about the value of their activities (or at least an internal impulse that drives through any such angst); and above all, a capacity to work (or at least to be mentally alert for unexpected insights) at every available moment of every day of their lives.

Stephen Jay Gould

The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.

Stephen Jay Gould

Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession and sowed the seeds for its own revision? If Simpson had reached final truth, he either would have been a priest or would have chosen a dull profession. The history of life cannot be a dull profession.

Stephen Jay Gould

Life is short, and potential studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something significant when we follow our passionate interests and work in areas of deepest personal meaning.

The rabbi had just said in his sermon that you never know, in one moment your life can change,