Action Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson

“If you simply pause and heed once in a while, you can find fragments of extraordinary moments in the midst of an ordinary life.”

— Mitali Meelan

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of…

— Horace

“And when it is accomplished—behold!—all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile—and the return to an eternal…

— Joseph Conrad

“And perhaps we have reason to be very grateful that, both as children and long afterwards, we are never allowed to guess how the…

— Kenneth Grahame

“But sometimes, by the deserving and the fortunate, even that task is accomplished. And when it is accomplished— behold!— all the truth of life…

— Joseph Conrad

“Most of anyone's life is a preoccupation with urgent inessentials. If we divide our affairs into what matters for a day or a season…

— Nan Fairbrother

The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading a joyful…

— Martha Beck

“We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, ‘here and…

— Jose Ortegay Y. Gasset

“But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.”

— George Eliot

“In the time of your life, live - so that in this wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of…

— Anonymous

“Whether you feel that your soul is pleased by the conception or contemplation of harmonies, or that your mind is stimulated by the aspect…

— RosettaBooks

“All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined those dead, those living, those generations yet to come that the fate of all is…

— Dean Koontz