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Life Quotes (page 303)

Alice Hoffman quote: "How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had..."
How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I’d had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms. Alice Hoffman
Henri Nouwen quote: "One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting..."
One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are Henri Nouwen
While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into. Margaret Atwood
Barbara Stanwyck quote: "You want the story of my life? Big ideas, small results."
You want the story of my life? Big ideas, small results. Barbara Stanwyck
Such as thy words are such will thine affections be esteemed and such as thine affections will be thy deeds and such as thy deeds will be thy life ... Socrates
Jack Kerouac quote: "Be in love with your life, every detail of it."
Be in love with your life, every detail of it. Jack Kerouac
For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out. Theodore Roosevelt
Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the form her affection took: paying attention. Carlos Fuentes
Consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return! Herman Melville
C. S. Lewis quote: "I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I..."
I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked. C. S. Lewis
The a hermit , who visited the city once a year , came forth and said, speak to us of pleasure. Go to your fields and your gardens , and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower. But it is also the plesure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee . For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life , And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love , And to both bee and flower , the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. Khalil Gibran
I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. Albert Einstein
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain. Helen Keller
The fantastic graces of Chivalry lay upon the surface of life, but beneath it was a half-savage population, fierce and animal, with little ruth or mercy. Arthur Conan Doyle
Naguib Mahfouz quote: "Perhaps boredom was an irrelevant concept for a life as..."
Perhaps boredom was an irrelevant concept for a life as monotonous as hers. Naguib Mahfouz

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