Life Quotes

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

Haruki Murakami

Sarcastic and merciless one, you glory in the pain you give!

E.D.E.N. Southworth

AESTHETICS OF INTEGRITY For every star in the sky Someone is holding his ground.

Langston Hughes

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The destination is made more meaningful by and through the journey. Don't give up!" HS/EL

Evinda Lepins

O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb, Trembling at that where I had stood before; When will return the glory of your prime? No more -- Oh, never more! Out of the day and night A joy has taken flight; Fresh spring, and summer, and wint...

Walt Whitman

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Henry David Thoreau

The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

John Lanchester

We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.

Cameron Conaway

I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me— Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing, The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Walt Whitman

Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowledge as with wolves' surliness, the student studies voluntarily, refusing to be less than individual. He "gives his opinion and then rests upon it"; h...

John Donne

And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.

Gerry Abbey

Arrange your unutterable alphabet, my man, / and hold tight. / It's all you've got, a naming of things, and not so beautiful.

Charles Wright

Laughter from yesterday that makes the heart giggle today brightens the perspective for tomorrow.

Evinda Lepins

It is interesting to note that an overwhelming majority of citizens in the world's three largest democracies have different religions: India (81 percent Hindu), the United States (76 percent Christian), and Indonesia (87 percent Muslim). Two of them ...

Jimmy Carter

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the determination to control and overcome it.

D William Manley

A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.

Ron Suskind

It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie.

Cassandra Clare

they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.

Cassandra Clare