Life And Love Quotes - Page 15

• Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

  Robert Frost

  Change, Advice, Wise Words

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• Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspirational, Change, Sweet

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.241, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Faith

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• Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.111, Princeton University Press

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• I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

  Pete Hamill

  Beautiful, Song, Nature

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• The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.531

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• Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Death, Rip

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

  Robert E. Lee

  Men, Gentleman, Civil War

  "Definition of a Gentleman". Memorandum found in Lee's papers after his death. "Lee the American" by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 233, xroads.virginia.edu. 1912.

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• The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Twilight, Sky

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

  John Lubbock

  Happiness, Violin, Art Of Happiness

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• The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Art, Excellence

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.114, Bantam

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• It's good to shut up sometimes.

  Marcel Marceau

  Inspirational, Funny, Character

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• The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  Abraham Maslow

  Determination, Ocean, Swimming

  "A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective". Book by Eric Shiraev (p. 431),

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• Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mean, Car, House

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• Genius is eternal patience.

  Michelangelo

  Positive, Patience, Art

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• If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

  Michelangelo

  Heart, Eye, Artist

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• Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

  Henry Miller

  Music, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Jesus, Thinking, Dare

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• Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Dreams are necessary to life.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Happiness, Dream

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• Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

  Robert Orben

  Motivational, People, Temptation

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• When it comes to life and love, why do we believe our worst reviews?

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Love, Believe, Reviews

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• Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, God, Friday

  Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston (2006). “The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent”, p.155, David C Cook

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• Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

  Gregory Peck

  Giving, Perspective, Inner Strength

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