Quotes on Life

i never learned anything while i was talking.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.

Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Our job is not to figure out the 'how'. The 'how' will show up out of the commitment and believe in the 'what

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.