Quotes on Life

Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.

Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

Just be yourself, there is no one better.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.