Life Quotes And Sayings

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

"Noting has been more difficult than to be curious about an object or a person, without being obstructed by preconceived ideas.Occasionally the veil is lifted, and the one who lifts it is called a genius."

"The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar."

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders,

"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common,

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t."

"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."

"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it."

"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."

"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So, what the hell, leap."

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

"Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us."

"You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair."

"Peace, It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart."

"When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to one another. This abstract character, universality,

"Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's "Pastoral."

"Don: Why are they closed? They're all closed, every one of them.
Pawnbroker: Sure they are. It's Yom Kippur.
Don: It's what?
Pawnbroker: It's Yom Kippur, a Jewish holiday.

"Augusta: You have an ant strolling up your cheek.
Tom: I wish it were your lips. [She kisses him] Such a little kiss.
Augusta: Such a little ant.
Tom: Wish it had been an elephant."

"Tom, remember your prayer. This time we have to say it to America. Arise my love. Arise, be strong, so you can stand up straight and say to anyone under God's heaven, (Alright, whose way of life shall it be, yours or ours?)"

"An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark—that is critical genius."

"So universal and widely related is any transcendent moral greatness, and so nearly identical with greatness everywhere and in every age,—as a pyramid contracts the nearer you approach its apex,—that,