quotables

No matter how confused, self-doubting or ambivalent we are about what's happening in our interactions with other people, we can never entirely silence the inner voice that always tells us the truth. We may not like the sound of the truth, and we often let it murmur just outside our consciousness, not stopping long enough to listen. But when we pay attention to it, it leads us toward wisdom, health, and clarity. That voice is the guardian of our integrity.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

~Confucius

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
~Mahatma Gandhi

The more laws and order are made prominent,
The more thieves and robbers there will be.
~Lao-tzu

Life is the childhood of eternity.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


One Life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
~ Thomas Carlyle


The meaning of life lies in the oneness of all creation, which combines supreme diversity with supreme interdependence.
~ Yehudi Menuhin


Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.
~ Emily Dickenson


Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
~ Anais Nin

War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ~ Bertrand Russell
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.
Charles Caleb Colton

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife... Believe there is great power silently working all things good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potter

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
~ A. Powell Davies


Life is about authenticity, recognizing and honoring one's song, getting in tune with that song and singing it well.
~ Marge Schneider


The meaning of life is quite simple. Sit back, kick the cruise control into action and enjoy the trip.
~ Terry Tracy


In three words I can sum up everything I learned about life: it goes on.
~ Robert Frost


In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back of the book.
~ Charles Schulz

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
~Robert Frost


A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
~Robert Frost

Life is just a collection of memories...but memories, my friends, are like starlight because memories go on forever.
~ C.W.McCall


Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
~ John. W. Gardner


Life is painting a picture, not creating a sum.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin-real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
~ James Patterson

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure.
~ Karl Menninger


Life is to explore, to discover, to delight and to be delighted.
~ Nicole Schapiro


The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
~ Joseph L. Mankiewicz