I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.
Robert FrostIn rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Leonardo da VinciYou cannot step into the same river twice.
HeraclitusAfter your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur SchopenhauerIf my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Audrey HepburnSilence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
Muhammad AliExperience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin DisraeliI think we’ve taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don’t stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and – for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.
Billy GrahamI’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
Margaret AtwoodI have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
Florence NightingaleIn the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George EliotThe world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander PopeWhen Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.
Joyce MeyerThe only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Eleanor RooseveltIf I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.
Marilyn MonroeI tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas JeffersonWe have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.
Charles SpurgeonIn every parting there is an image of death.
George EliotIn the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren BuffettCulture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Albert CamusLife is wasted on the living.
Douglas AdamsHe who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
ConfuciusTradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘
Maya AngelouThere’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.
George CarlinEvery man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest HemingwayLife imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar WildeIf we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Carl SaganIt is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
Charles DickensNo memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
Robert FrostSometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.
Joel OsteenNothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Blaise PascalI was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.
Alice WalkerDay by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
Albert SchweitzerEvery one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
VoltaireExperience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Friedrich NietzscheWhen a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.
Benjamin DisraeliWhen I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaOne always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
Jean-Paul SartreNo man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFew men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.
Charles SpurgeonSleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Friedrich NietzscheThere’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.
Joyce MeyerThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac AsimovMozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
Albert EinsteinAs you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?
David BowieWe dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
Matthew McConaugheyBeauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin FranklinWhere the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
Virginia WoolfWhen I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.
Russell M. NelsonIn the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.
King SolomonSleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Virginia WoolfI still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
Friedrich NietzscheThe end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiTo some extent I liken slavery to death.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Maya AngelouIt takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Franklin D. RooseveltSometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.
Joyce MeyerSeriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar WildeAnger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca