QUOTE/UNQUOTE
LIFE
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And heaven in a wild flower,
To hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
William Blake
Men take only their needs
into consideration
--never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed.
Charlotte Bronte
Nothing in life is as good
as the marriage of true minds
between man and woman.
As good? It is life itself.
Pearl S. Buck
But what is hapiness except
the simple harmony
between a man
and the life he leads.
Albert Camus
I honor your gods
I drink at your well
I bring an undefined heart
to our meeting place
I have no cherished outcome
I will not negotiate by withholding
I am not subject to disappointment
Celtic vow
Habits are cobwebs at first,
chain at last.
Chinese proverbs
The gem cannot be polished without friction;
not a man perfected without trials.
Chinese proverb
There is no little enemy.
Benjamin Franklin
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
We are what and where we are
because we have first imagined it.
Donald Curtis
The most valuable things in life
are not measured in monetary terms.
The really important things are not houses and lands,
stocks and bonds, automobiles and real estate,
but friendships, trust, confidence,
empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Bertrand Russell V. Delong
If you cannot find the truth right where you are,
where else do you expect to find it?
Dogen
To everything there is a season,
a time for every purpose under the sun:
a time to be born and a time to die;
a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
a time to kill and a time to heal . . .
a time to weep and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn and a time to dance . . .
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to lose and a time to seek . . .
a time to rend and a time to sew;
a time to keep silent and a time to speak;
a time to love and a time to hate;
a time for war and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
What do we live for,
if not to make life
less difficult
for each other?
George Eliot
The great sea has set me in motion.
Set me adrift,
And I move as a weed in the river.
The arch of sky
And mightiness of storms
Encompasses me,
And I am left
Trembling with joy.
Eskimo Song
Life does not count by the years.
Some suffer a lifetime in one day,
and so grow old between the rising
and the setting of the sun.
Augusta Jane Evans
When you cease to dream,
you cease to live.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Whether you think that you can,
or that you can't,
you are usually right.
Henry Ford
Tenderness and kindness are not
signs of weakness and despair,
but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Kahlil Gibran
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp, but which,
if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps;
for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference
between what things are and what they might have been.
William Hazlitt
Out of life comes death,
and out of death, life,
Out of the young, the old,
and out of the old, the young,
Out of waking, sleep,
and out of sleep, waking,
The stream of creation and dissolution
never stops.
Heraclitus
There would be no great men
if there were no little ones.
George Herbert
Wonder rather than doubt
is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
If you must speak ill of another,
do not speak it,
write it in the sand
near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill
A child's education should begin at least
one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life in abundance
comes only through great love.
Elbert Hubbard
And yet, there is only
One great thing,
The only thing;
To live to see in huts and on journeys
The great day that dawns,
And the light that fills the world.
Inuit Song
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson
Life can only be understood backward;
but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
I add my breath to your breath
that our days may be long on the Earth.
That the days of our people may be long,
that we shall be as one person,
that we may finish our road together.
Laguna Pueblo prayer
He that cannot forgive others,
breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
Lord Hebert
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Malaysian proverb
Tomorrow's life
is too late.
Live today.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
To see the earth as it truly is,
small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats,
is to see riders on the earth together,
brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold --
brothers who know now that they are truly brothers.
Archibald McLeish
Some people walk in the rain; others just get wet.
Roger Miller
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware,
joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller
A man's reputation is what other people think of him;
his character is what he really is.
Jack Miner
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
Happily may I walk.
May it be beautiful before me.
May it be beautiful behind me.
May it be beautiful below me.
May it be beautiful above me.
May it be beautiful all around me.
In beauty it is finished.
Anonymous Navaho Night Chant
Nobody really cares if you're miserable,
so you might as well be happy.
Cynthia Nelms
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Our life is composed
greatly from dreams,
from the unconscious,
and they must be brought
into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
Anais Nin
Life is easier to take than you think.
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible,
do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris
Wherever you are is home
And the earth is paradise--
Pelletier and Poole
And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy gray eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams--
In what ethereal dances,
by what eternal streams.
Edgar Allen Poe
There are some remedies
worse than disease.
Publilius Syrus
Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn back on his life.
Hyman G. Rickover
The true aim of everyone
who aspires to be a teacher should be,
not to impart his own opinions,
but to kindle minds.
Frederick William Robertson
There is no cure for birth and death
save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
Doctors don't know everything, really.
They understandmatter, not spirit.
And you and I live in spirit.
William Saroyan
Everything has been figured out,
except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.
Judith Stern
Life does not cease to be funny when people die,
any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no duty we so much underrate
as the duty of being happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply,
to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Jameson Storm
The bitterest tears shed over graves
are for words left unsaid
and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Anyone can hold the helm
when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus
The best portion of a good man's life is his little,
nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth
I think,
therefore I'm single.
Liz Winston
A sacred memory
is the most valuable thing one may have,
to live by through the years.
Stark Young
And if I name life, I must risk my laughter,
my dancing, my tears, my self,
in giving a name to this experience called living.
Anonymous
Love is...born with the pleasure of looking at each other,
it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other,
it is concluded with the impossibility of separation!
Jose Marti
For everything that lives is holy,
life delights in life.
William Blake
Love is the difficult realization
that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch
Soft and drowsy hours are creeping,
Hill and dale in slumber sleeping.
Love alone his watch is keeping--
All through the night.
Old Welsh Lullaby
In America, anybody can be president.
That's one of the risks you take.
Adlai Stevenson
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