LIFE 2005 Quotes
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Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Helen Keller
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Oscar Wilde
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
Sir Thomas Browne
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... 'Beware of me,' it says, 'but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy...that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
Martha Graham
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Ramsay Clark
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
William Blake
Life consists of wildness. The most alive is the wildest.
Henry David Thoreau
We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.
Alan Chadwick
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra
If A is success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X. Y is play.
And Z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
William Ellery Channing
Love not what you are, but what you may become.
Miguel de Cervantes
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
Jules Renard
Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning / Born of the one light Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise every morning / God's recreation of this new day
Martin Luther, 1523
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
Many people are never young but only a few people are never old.
George Bernard Shaw
Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again.
Henry Ford
What is this talked-of mystery of birth / But being mounted bareback on the earth?
Robert Frost
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
A flower is a leaf mad with love.
Goethe
There's no blameless life / Save for the passionless.
George Eliot
The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.
George Sand
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Buddha
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Colette
You give your hand to me / And then you say hello / I can hardly speak
My heart is beating so / And anyone can tell / You think you know me well
But you don't know me
Lyrics & music by Cindy Walker & Eddy Arnold, 1955
Recorded by Ray Charles, 1962
I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind.
Ray Charles in The Washington Post, 1983
What we play is life. My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.
Louis Armstrong
We lost a genius and we lost my brother...a cornerstone of good, and that hurts real bad.
James Brown, 6.11.04
Music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself. Infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.
Pearl Buck
Notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.
Anais Nin
Music saves nothing. Merciful, uncaring, it denies and breaks down all the shelters, the houses men build for themselves, that they may see the sky.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi
The greatest glory of a free-born people, is to transmit that freedom to their children.
William Harvard
He works so hard...I wish I could persuade him to take things a little more easily; but it would be like inducing a sledge hammer to loiter on the downward arc.
Margaret Halsey
It is not hard work which is dreary; it is superficial work.
Edith Hamilton
One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.
Vincent T. Foss
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H. L. Mencken
My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.
Abraham Lincoln
Intellectual "work" is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
Mark Twain
We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorous and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent and intimate hours.
Marcel Proust
A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under which they will never sit.
Greek proverb
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
Jacques Deval
Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.
Isaac Asimov
They say when you die and go to heaven that all the cats and dogs you've ever had in your life will come running to meet you.
Kinky Friedman
Heaven, I'm in Heaven / And my heart beats so / That I can hardly speak...
Irving Berlin
I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.
William Wiley
While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci
"Where you headed from here?" "I don't know." "Can't get lost then."
Conversation in Nameless Tennessee
Coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body.
Betsy Sholl
Everything is a miracle. We just have to recognize it.
Federico Fellini
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Albert Einstein
The world will not perish for want of wonders but for want of wonder.
J. B. S. Haldane
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
I. Fitzhenry
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman
I've come to the conclusion that I never did know anything about it.
Thomas Edison on electricity
December: The Time of Your Life
See how he glides / He's having the time of his life / Life filled to the brim
and I've had the time of my life / Living through him
Stephen Sondheim
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
John Andrew Holmes
Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway
Your life lies before you like a path of driven snow, be careful how you tread it cause every step will show.
Lowri Williams
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
