Fall Quote by Peace Pilgrim

In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to…

— Dorothea Brande

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

— Victor Hugo

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are…

— Seneca the Younger

“For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us…

— Alain de Botton

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

— Abraham Verghese

Life's too short to waste on pessimism, boredom and disillusionment.

— Anonymous

So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has…

— Jean de la Bruyere

To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly…

— B. C. Forbes

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

— John Webster

“We each make our solo voyages to deep, expansive waters. Alone in our contest with the wider world, we test our mettle and seek…

— Carl Safina

We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others

— William Hazlitt