Quotes on Life

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.

you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.