No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the… — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
It’s a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do… — Yanni Copy Share Image
She'd tell him what she wanted in her life, her hopes & dreams for the future & he would listen intently and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a great family, great kids. I have practically everything, you know? Sometimes I have to pinch myself. It's really true:… — Bjorn Borg Copy Share Image
You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
They say life is full of surprises. That our dreams really can come true. Then again, so can our nightmares. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Having a coach or mentor is nothing more than sharing life’s experiences, no amount of education can substitute true life experience” — Lachlan McPherson Copy Share Image
If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond… — Barbara Fredrickson Copy Share Image
Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development - begun now and ending never. And a life made… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
This book blew me away. Kelly Parra writes with the keen eye of an artist. Graffiti Girl is warm, gutsy, and true-to-life… — Anne Frasier Copy Share Image
“Her secret? Loving her own life. Finding the things that came her way of immense interest and animating them. No matter what… — Karen Karbo Copy Share Image
The best moments on earth are those during which we meditate upon heavenly things in general, when we recognize or defend the… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
“Do you know, my darling, how very much God loves you? He loves you so much that He created you and blessed… — Lydia Marshall Copy Share Image
“I asked myself what I believed. I had never prayed a lot. I hoped hard, wished hard, but I didn't pray. I… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
I do like Canadian poetry. Christian Bök, Anne Carson, Carmine Starnino, and Don McKay are a few of the Canadian poets whose… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Truth is paradox and suffering is ironic. It's ironic that people who lead dull, safe and boring lives want to impose safety… — Chobo Copy Share Image
“It seemed that for every evil they defeated, worse took its place, but Vaughn banished the thought that this all might be… — Darryl Steven Markowitz Copy Share Image
Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content… — Plato Copy Share Image
Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“To give power to that which has no bearing on one's life simply means one is not living their true life.” — Peprah Boasiako Copy Share Image
“It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another,” she said. “It’s one damn thing over and over.” — Elaine Ambrose Copy Share Image
To experience true life, we must continue the Christian journey the same way we began it - by faith. — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“He who studies himself at all is ignoble. Only by despising soul as well as body can a man enter true life.” — David Lindsay Copy Share Image
if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
“I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself not the life others expected of me.” — Gary Keller Copy Share Image
Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight,… — William Booth Copy Share Image
A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals,… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Our world spins upside down and sometimes we have to lose our grip on the things we value in this life in… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
