Tuesday, June 16, 2009 @ 3:27 AM
1. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. - Albert Einstein
2. The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. - Anais Nin
3. Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. - Bernice Johnson Reagon
4. Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. - Dorothy Thompson
5. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. - Henry James
6. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. - John Dewey
7. What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. - Leo Buscaglia
8. The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes. - Madame De Stael
9. The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius
10. Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow. - Maria Mitchell
11. Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. - Maria Curie
12. Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain
13. A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. - May Sarton
14. Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Norman Macewan
15. It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
16. The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. - Pearl S.Buck
17. Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. - Ralph Ellison
18. Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be. - Raymond Charles Barker
20. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. -Robert Frost
21. An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer. - Sarah Ban Breathnach
22. Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough. - Seneca
23. Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power. - Stephen Covey
24. Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. - Will Rogers
25. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill
26. You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. - Zig Ziglar
27. Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide
28. We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. - Blaise Pascal
29. You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. - Frank Crane
30. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
31. Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. - James Bladwin
32. Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt. - Jane Addams
33. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden
34. If you're not confused, you're not paying attention. - Tom Peters
35. The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. - Ursula K.Leguin
36. Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough. - Janwillem Van De Wetering
37. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. - Ellen Parr
38. Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. - Sir Cecil Beaton
39. In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. - Elbert Einstein
40. Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy. - Scott Alexander
42. Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. - George Bernard Shaw
43. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. -Carl Sagan
44. Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. - Amy Bloom
45. Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. - Antoine De Saint (Exupery)
46. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 47. Lying is done with words and also with silence. - Adrienne Rich
48. To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. - Henri Bergson
49. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso
50. You really can change the world if you care enough. - Marian Wright Edelman