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The Key to Life
“Make your life a work of art.”
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
#1
In 365 Quotes
“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”
-Abraham Lincoln
#2
The Key to Life
“It's never too late to be what you might have been.”
-Adelaide Anne Procter
#3
In 365 Quotes
“We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.”
-Alan Moore
#4
The Key to Life
“Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.”
-Alan Watts
#5
In 365 Quotes
“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
-Albert Camus
#6
The Key to Life
“I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.”
-Albert Camus
#7
In 365 Quotes
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
-Albert Camus
#8
The Key to Life
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty and truth.”
-Albert Einstein
#9
In 365 Quotes
“There's a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost, that the ship has sailed, and that only a fool would continue. The truth is; I've always been a fool.”
-Albert Finney
#10
The Key to Life
“It is a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to each other.”
-Aldous Huxley
#11
In 365 Quotes
“Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#12
The Key to Life
“One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny.”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#13
In 365 Quotes
“Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#14
The Key to Life
“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#15
In 365 Quotes
“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#16
The Key to Life
“It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
-Alfred Adler
#17
In 365 Quotes
“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
#18
The Key to Life
“A library is a hospital for the mind.”
-Alvin Toffler
#19
In 365 Quotes
“Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.”
-André Gide
#20
The Key to Life
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
-André Gide
#21
In 365 Quotes
“We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches.”
-Anna Akhmatova
#22
The Key to Life
“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”
-Anne Thackeray Ritchie
#23
In 365 Quotes
“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”
-Aristotle
#24
The Key to Life
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
-Arleen Lorrance
#25
In 365 Quotes
“A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
-Arthur C. Clarke
#26
The Key to Life
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer
#27
In 365 Quotes
“The life of an individual is almost always tragic, but gone through in detail it has the characteristics of a comedy.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer
#28
The Key to Life
“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”
-Ayn Rand
#29
In 365 Quotes
“If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.”
-Baruch Spinoza
#30
The Key to Life
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
-Benjamin Franklin
#31
In 365 Quotes
“The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.”
-Bernard Meltzer
#32
The Key to Life
“I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong.”
-Bertrand Russell
#33
In 365 Quotes
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
-Bill Widener
#34
The Key to Life
“The truth is everyone is going to hurt you; you just have to find the ones worth suffering for.”
-Bob Marley
#35
In 365 Quotes
“It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.”
-Brian Tracy
#36
The Key to Life
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
-C. S. Lewis
#37
In 365 Quotes
“My purpose, practically speaking: a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion.”
-C. S. Lewis
#38
The Key to Life
“Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.”
-C. S. Lewis
#39
In 365 Quotes
“The price of happiness is bondage, the price of freedom is loneliness.”
-C. S. Lewis
#40
The Key to Life
“God is man's greatest idea.”
-Camille Paglia
#41
In 365 Quotes
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
-Carl Jung
#42
The Key to Life
“That which you most need will be found where you least want to look.”
-Carl Jung
#43
In 365 Quotes
“The world will ask who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”
-Carl Jung
#44
The Key to Life
“Without mistakes there would be no truth. If a man does not know what a thing is, at least he knows what it is not.”
-Carl Jung
#45
In 365 Quotes
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
-Carl W. Buehner
#46
The Key to Life
“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
-Cesare Pavese
#47
In 365 Quotes
“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.”
-Charles Bukowski
#48
The Key to Life
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
-Charles Caleb Colton
#49
In 365 Quotes
“We must be engaged in the cultural battles – even when we grow weary – for truth is at stake in every arena, and eternal destinies hang in the balance.”
-Charles Colson
#50
The Key to Life
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.”
-Charles Dickens
#51
In 365 Quotes
“In the end, everything is showbiz.”
-Charlie Chaplin
#52
The Key to Life
“Things of quality have no fear of time.”
-Christiana Gaudet
#53
In 365 Quotes
“The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
-Chuck Palahniuk
#54
The Key to Life
“Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.”
-Clive Barker
#55
In 365 Quotes
“The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive.”
-Coco Chanel
#56
The Key to Life
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
-Confucius
#57
In 365 Quotes
“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
-Dalai Lama
#58
The Key to Life
“War creates peace like hate creates love.”
-David L. Wilson
#59
In 365 Quotes
“Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.”
-David Parnas
#60
The Key to Life
“The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures.”
-Democritus
#61
In 365 Quotes
“There are only 3 things in the universe: the known-knowns, the known-unknowns, and the unknown-unknowns. What we know, what we don't know, and what we don't know we don't know.”
-Donald Rumsfeld
#62
The Key to Life
“How did it get so late so soon?”
-Dr. Seuss
#63
In 365 Quotes
“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”
-E. M. Forster
#64
The Key to Life
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
-Earl Nightingale
#65
In 365 Quotes
“Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?”
-Edgar Allan Poe
#66
The Key to Life
“Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.”
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#67
In 365 Quotes
“If true confessions are written with tears, then my tears would drown the world, as the fire in my soul would reduce it to ashes.”
-Emil Cioran
#68
The Key to Life
“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”
-Émile Souvestre
#69
In 365 Quotes
“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
-Emiliano Zapata
#70
The Key to Life
“Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.”
-Epictetus
#71
In 365 Quotes
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.”
-Epicurus
#72
The Key to Life
“For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”
-Eric Roth
#73
In 365 Quotes
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
-Ernest Hemingway
#74
The Key to Life
“I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.”
-Ernest Hemingway
#75
In 365 Quotes
“You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
-Ernest Hemingway
#76
The Key to Life
“I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
-Evelyn Beatrice Hall
#77
In 365 Quotes
“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
#78
The Key to Life
“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
#79
In 365 Quotes
“Knowledge is power.”
-Francis Bacon
#80
The Key to Life
“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.”
-François de La Rochefoucauld
#81
In 365 Quotes
“Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.”
-François de La Rochefoucauld
#82
The Key to Life
“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
-Frank Herbert
#83
In 365 Quotes
“The only thing that prevents success in the future is skepticism in the present.”
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
#84
The Key to Life
“A book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.”
-Franz Kafka
#85
In 365 Quotes
“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”
-Franz Kafka
#86
The Key to Life
“The bigger the better; in everything.”
-Freddie Mercury
#87
In 365 Quotes
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
#88
The Key to Life
“In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke; that fact alone would invalidate any book.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
#89
In 365 Quotes
“It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up til now has consisted of – namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
#90
The Key to Life
“Our thinking should have a vigorous fragrance, like a wheat field on a summer's night.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
#91
In 365 Quotes
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
#92
The Key to Life
“That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
#93
In 365 Quotes
“There is a false saying, 'Whoever cannot save himself, how can he save others?' But if I have the key to your chains, why should your and my lock be the same.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
#94
The Key to Life
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
#95
In 365 Quotes
“Beauty will save the world.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
#96
The Key to Life
“Every man is not only responsible for what he does but what everyone else does.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
#97
In 365 Quotes
“If we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
#98
The Key to Life
“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
#99
In 365 Quotes
“Shower upon him every earthly blessing, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
#100
The Key to Life
“Everyone gets a vote, even the people of the past, we call that tradition.”
-G. K. Chesterton
#101
In 365 Quotes
“Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist, fairy tales tell children the dragons can be defeated.”
-G. K. Chesterton
#102
The Key to Life
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
-G. K. Chesterton
#103
In 365 Quotes
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía remembered that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#104
The Key to Life
“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”
-Galileo Galilei
#105
In 365 Quotes
“Better late than never.”
-Geoffrey Chaucer
#106
The Key to Life
“Time and tide wait for no man.”
-Geoffrey Chaucer
#107
In 365 Quotes
“A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life.”
-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#108
The Key to Life
“It is only through staking one's life that freedom is won.”
-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#109
In 365 Quotes
“Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.”
-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#110
The Key to Life
“The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.”
-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#111
In 365 Quotes
“Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
-George Adair
#112
The Key to Life
“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.”
-George Bernard Shaw
#113
In 365 Quotes
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
-George Bernard Shaw
#114
The Key to Life
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
-George Eliot
#115
In 365 Quotes
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
-George Orwell
#116
The Key to Life
“There is only one happiness in this life: to love and be loved.”
-George Sand
#117
In 365 Quotes
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
-George Santayana
#118
The Key to Life
“To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
-Gordon Allport
#119
In 365 Quotes
“We live in the best of all possible worlds.”
-Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
#120
The Key to Life
“It's not about winning or losing, but how you play the game.”
-Grantland Rice
#121
In 365 Quotes
“I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.”
-Groucho Marx
#122
The Key to Life
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
-H. Jackson Brown
#123
In 365 Quotes
“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”
-Harper Lee
#124
The Key to Life
“In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves; self-discipline with all of them came first.”
-Harry Truman
#125
In 365 Quotes
“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
-Haruki Marukami
#126
The Key to Life
“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”
-Havelock Ellis
#127
In 365 Quotes
“Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.”
-Heinrich Heine
#128
The Key to Life
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
-Helen Keller
#129
In 365 Quotes
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
-Henry David Thoreau
#130
The Key to Life
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
-Henry Thomas Buckle
#131
In 365 Quotes
“Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best.”
-Henry van Dyke
#132
The Key to Life
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
-Heraclitus
#133
In 365 Quotes
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
-Herman Melville
#134
The Key to Life
“It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation.”
-Herman Melville
#135
In 365 Quotes
“What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.”
-Hermann Hesse
#136
The Key to Life
“The measure of a society is how well it takes care of its weakest members.”
-Hubert Humphrey
#137
In 365 Quotes
“Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.”
-Hugo Black
#138
The Key to Life
“Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
#139
In 365 Quotes
“Society grows when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
-Hyacinthe Loyson
#140
The Key to Life
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
-Ian Maclaren
#141
In 365 Quotes
“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.”
-Immanuel Kant
#142
The Key to Life
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore.”
-Isaac Newton
#143
In 365 Quotes
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
-Isaac Newton
#144
The Key to Life
“To every action, there is always an opposite and equal reaction.”
-Isaac Newton
#145
In 365 Quotes
“Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.”
-J. C. Watts
#146
The Key to Life
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.”
-J. J. van der Leeuw
#147
In 365 Quotes
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
-J. K. Rowling
#148
The Key to Life
“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
-J. M. Barrie
#149
In 365 Quotes
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
-J. R. R. Tolkien
#150
The Key to Life
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
-James Branch Cabell
#151
In 365 Quotes
“Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”
-James Dean
#152
The Key to Life
“Left to our own devices, we will remake the entire world in our own image.”
-Jared Brock
#153
In 365 Quotes
“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.”
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#154
The Key to Life
“In choosing for myself I choose for all men.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre
#155
In 365 Quotes
“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre
#156
The Key to Life
“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of legislation.”
-Jeremy Bentham
#157
In 365 Quotes
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”
-Jim Rohn
#158
The Key to Life
“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.”
-Jimmy Wales
#159
In 365 Quotes
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#160
The Key to Life
“When we take people merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we help them become what they can be.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#161
In 365 Quotes
“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
-John F. Kennedy
#162
The Key to Life
“If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
-John F. Kennedy
#163
In 365 Quotes
“All great literature is one of two stories: a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
-John Gardner
#164
The Key to Life
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
-John Green
#165
In 365 Quotes
“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
-John Green
#166
The Key to Life
“A cat may look at a king.”
-John Heywood
#167
In 365 Quotes
“A man may well bring a horse to water, but he cannot make him drink.”
-John Heywood
#168
The Key to Life
“Make hay while the sun shines.”
-John Heywood
#169
In 365 Quotes
“Nothing ventured, nothing gained.”
-John Heywood
#170
The Key to Life
“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
-John Locke
#171
In 365 Quotes
“Liberty consists in doing what one desires.”
-John Stuart Mill
#172
The Key to Life
“The wonderful thing about a book is that once you close it, it's yours forever.”
-John W. Gardner
#173
In 365 Quotes
“I don't want the best for you. I want the best for what wants the best for you, because you don't know what you want. I'm not on the side of you that's aiming towards your defeat. I'm on the side that's struggling towards the light. And that's the definition of love.”
-Jordan Peterson
#174
The Key to Life
“If you don't believe in God then you believe in nothing, and religious people will keep their gods, while you keep your nothing.”
-Jordan Peterson
#175
In 365 Quotes
“If you fulfill your obligations every day, you don't have to worry about the future.”
-Jordan Peterson
#176
The Key to Life
“Nihilism means that there is no meaning to anything, but the opposite is just as true, that there is meaning to everything.”
-Jordan Peterson
#177
In 365 Quotes
“The line between order and chaos is where you will find the most meaning.”
-Jordan Peterson
#178
The Key to Life
“It is a waste to ask, 'What is the meaning of life?' when you are the answer.”
-Joseph Campbell
#179
In 365 Quotes
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
-Joseph Campbell
#180
The Key to Life
“You are the hero of your own story.”
-Joseph Campbell
#181
In 365 Quotes
“No matter how big the lie, repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.”
-Joseph Goebbels
#182
The Key to Life
“From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.”
-Karl Marx
#183
In 365 Quotes
“Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”
-Karl Marx
#184
The Key to Life
“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
-Kinky Friedman
#185
In 365 Quotes
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
#186
The Key to Life
“What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?”
-Kurt Vonnegut
#187
In 365 Quotes
“He holds nothing back from life; therefore he is ready for death, as a man is ready for sleep after a good day's work.”
-Lao Tzu
#188
The Key to Life
“The world belongs to those who let go.”
-Lao Tzu
#189
In 365 Quotes
“There are 3 types of leaders in this world: the leader that's loved; the leader that's hated; and the leader that people barely know he exists. When the work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
-Lao Tzu
#190
The Key to Life
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
#191
In 365 Quotes
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to have it make some difference, that you have lived and lived well.”
-Leo Rosten
#192
The Key to Life
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
-Leo Tolstoy
#193
In 365 Quotes
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
-Leo Tolstoy
#194
The Key to Life
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun. Yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
-Leo Tolstoy
#195
In 365 Quotes
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
-Leo Tolstoy
#196
The Key to Life
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
-Leo Tolstoy
#197
In 365 Quotes
“Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.”
-Leo Tolstoy
#198
The Key to Life
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
-Leo Tolstoy
#199
In 365 Quotes
“The hero of my tale – whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will forever be beautiful – is truth.”
-Leo Tolstoy
#200
The Key to Life
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
-Leo Tolstoy
#201
In 365 Quotes
“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”
-Leo Tolstoy
#202
The Key to Life
“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled.”
-Les Brown
#203
In 365 Quotes
“In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.”
-Lewis Carroll
#204
The Key to Life
“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”
-Louis Fischer
#205
In 365 Quotes
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
-Ludwig Jacobowski
#206
The Key to Life
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
#207
In 365 Quotes
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
#208
The Key to Life
“No man is a hero to his debtors.”
-Madame Cornuel
#209
In 365 Quotes
“All religions are different roads converging to the same point.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
#210
The Key to Life
“Even though our lives wander, our memories remain in one place.”
-Marcel Proust
#211
In 365 Quotes
“Just when everything seems lost; one has knocked on all doors which lead nowhere, and then, unwittingly, one pushes against the only one through which one would have searched in vain for a hundred years – and it opens.”
-Marcel Proust
#212
The Key to Life
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
-Marcel Proust
#213
In 365 Quotes
“The only possible paradises are those we have lost.”
-Marcel Proust
#214
The Key to Life
“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of eternal youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess new eyes; to behold the universe through the eyes of another – of a hundred others – to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.”
-Marcel Proust
#215
In 365 Quotes
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.”
-Marcel Proust
#216
The Key to Life
“Unlike the earth, the sea is not separated from the sky; it radiates under the sun and seems to die with it every evening. And when the sun has vanished, the sea keeps longing for it, keeps preserving a bit of its luminous reminiscence in the face of the uniformly somber earth.”
-Marcel Proust
#217
In 365 Quotes
“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
-Marcel Proust
#218
The Key to Life
“We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.”
-Marcel Proust
#219
In 365 Quotes
“The best revenge is to not be like your enemy.”
-Marcus Aurelius
#220
The Key to Life
“The impediment to action advances action; what stands in the way becomes the way.”
-Marcus Aurelius
#221
In 365 Quotes
“In the spring, at the end of the day, one should smell like dirt.”
-Margaret Atwood
#222
The Key to Life
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
-Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
#223
In 365 Quotes
“Even in the future, the story begins with once upon a time.”
-Marissa Meyer
#224
The Key to Life
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
-Mark Twain
#225
In 365 Quotes
“The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”
-Mark Twain
#226
The Key to Life
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
-Marshall McLuhan
#227
In 365 Quotes
“The way you do anything is the way you do everything.”
-Martha Beck
#228
The Key to Life
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
-Marthe Troly-Curtin
#229
In 365 Quotes
“Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture.”
-Martin Amis
#230
The Key to Life
“Judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.”
-Martin Luther King
#231
In 365 Quotes
“Seek not to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
-Matsuo Basho
#232
The Key to Life
“When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”
-Maya Angelou
#233
In 365 Quotes
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
-Mignon McLaughlin
#234
The Key to Life
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace.”
-Milan Kundera
#235
In 365 Quotes
“If you know the way broadly you will see it in all things.”
-Miyamoto Musashi
#236
The Key to Life
“The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.”
-Mother Teresa
#237
In 365 Quotes
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
-Napoleon Hill
#238
The Key to Life
“If you cannot decide, the answer is no.”
-Naval Ravikant
#239
In 365 Quotes
“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.”
-Niccolo Machiavelli
#240
The Key to Life
“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
-Niels Bohr
#241
In 365 Quotes
“How is it that we have so much information, but know so little?”
-Noam Chomsky
#242
The Key to Life
“Propaganda system works because it recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies.”
-Noam Chomsky
#243
In 365 Quotes
“Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#244
The Key to Life
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
-Omar Bradley
#245
In 365 Quotes
“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”
-Orson Welles
#246
The Key to Life
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
-Oscar Wilde
#247
In 365 Quotes
“Life imitates art.”
-Oscar Wilde
#248
The Key to Life
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
-Oscar Wilde
#249
In 365 Quotes
“To define is to limit.”
-Oscar Wilde
#250
The Key to Life
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
-Oscar Wilde
#251
In 365 Quotes
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
-Pablo Picasso
#252
The Key to Life
“Even though I'm no better than a beast, don't I, too, have a right to live?”
-Park Chan-wook
#253
In 365 Quotes
“It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.”
-Paulo Coelho
#254
The Key to Life
“The world is changed by your example. Not your opinion.”
-Paulo Coelho
#255
In 365 Quotes
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
-Paulo Coelho
#256
The Key to Life
“Everything will leave us only after it has taught us the necessary lessons.”
-Pema Chodron
#257
In 365 Quotes
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
-Percy Colson
#258
The Key to Life
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
-Plato
#259
In 365 Quotes
“Man is the measure of all things.”
-Protagoras
#260
The Key to Life
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
-Proverb
#261
In 365 Quotes
“Don't be sorry, be different.”
-Proverb
#262
The Key to Life
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
-Proverb
#263
In 365 Quotes
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
-Proverb
#264
The Key to Life
“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is now.”
-Proverb
#265
In 365 Quotes
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
-Proverb
#266
The Key to Life
“Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.”
-Proverb
#267
In 365 Quotes
“Truth serves life.”
-Proverb
#268
The Key to Life
“All the world loves a lover.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
#269
In 365 Quotes
“People's opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
#270
The Key to Life
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
#271
In 365 Quotes
“Comparison is the thief of joy.”
-Ray Cummings
#272
The Key to Life
“I think; therefore I am.”
-René Descartes
#273
In 365 Quotes
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
-René Descartes
#274
The Key to Life
“One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.”
-René Descartes
#275
In 365 Quotes
“Science is the poetry of reality.”
-Richard Dawkins
#276
The Key to Life
“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
-Rob Siltanen
#277
In 365 Quotes
“Less is more.”
-Robert Browning
#278
The Key to Life
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
-Robert Frost
#279
In 365 Quotes
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
-Robert Frost
#280
The Key to Life
“Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.”
-Robert Frost
#281
In 365 Quotes
“Always say less than necessary.”
-Robert Greene
#282
The Key to Life
“You have a responsibility to contribute to the culture and times you live in.”
-Robert Greene
#283
In 365 Quotes
“Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip.”
-Robert Hastings
#284
The Key to Life
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
-Robert J. Hanlon
#285
In 365 Quotes
“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
-Saint Augustine
#286
The Key to Life
“Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.”
-Saint Augustine
#287
In 365 Quotes
“If a thing is not diminished by being shared, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.”
-Saint Augustine
#288
The Key to Life
“We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.”
-Saint Augustine
#289
In 365 Quotes
“We manage to never really connect with the present moment and find fulfillment there, because we are continually hoping to become happy in the future. And the future never arrives.”
-Sam Harris
#290
The Key to Life
“Every man's work is always a portrait of himself.”
-Samuel Butler
#291
In 365 Quotes
“Even while they teach, men learn.”
-Seneca
#292
The Key to Life
“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
-Seneca
#293
In 365 Quotes
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
-Sharon Begley
#294
The Key to Life
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
-Sigmund Freud
#295
In 365 Quotes
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
-Sigmund Freud
#296
The Key to Life
“The problem for us is not whether our desires are satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.”
-Slavoj Žižek
#297
In 365 Quotes
“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
-Socrates
#298
The Key to Life
“The only thing I know is that I know nothing.”
-Socrates
#299
In 365 Quotes
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
-Socrates
#300
The Key to Life
“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.”
-Søren Kierkegaard
#301
In 365 Quotes
“And in that moment I swear we were infinite.”
-Stephen Chbosky
#302
The Key to Life
“Books are portable magic.”
-Stephen King
#303
In 365 Quotes
“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.”
-Stephen King
#304
The Key to Life
“Put things back into the stream of history as much as you can.”
-Steve Jobs
#305
In 365 Quotes
“It's not about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.”
-Sylvester Stallone
#306
The Key to Life
“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.”
-T. S. Eliot
#307
In 365 Quotes
“Do I dare disturb the universe?”
-T. S. Eliot
#308
The Key to Life
“Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve. Nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of oneself.”
-T. S. Eliot
#309
In 365 Quotes
“This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.”
-T. S. Eliot
#310
The Key to Life
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive at where we started and know the place for the first time.”
-T. S. Eliot
#311
In 365 Quotes
“What might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. Footsteps echo in the memory. Down the passage which we did not take. Towards the door we never opened. Into the rose-garden.”
-T. S. Eliot
#312
The Key to Life
“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
-Tacitus
#313
In 365 Quotes
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”
-The Bible
#314
The Key to Life
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
-The Bible
#315
In 365 Quotes
“He who has no sin cast the first stone.”
-The Bible
#316
The Key to Life
“Love your enemies.”
-The Bible
#317
In 365 Quotes
“The kingdom of God is within you.”
-The Bible
#318
The Key to Life
“The truth will set you free.”
-The Bible
#319
In 365 Quotes
“Attachment is the root of suffering.”
-The Buddha
#320
The Key to Life
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
-The Buddha
#321
In 365 Quotes
“Remember me. I will remember you.”
-The Quran
#322
The Key to Life
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
-Theodore Parker
#323
In 365 Quotes
“Ignorance is bliss.”
-Thomas Gray
#324
The Key to Life
“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.”
-Thomas Hobbes
#325
In 365 Quotes
“Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”
-Thomas Hobbes
#326
The Key to Life
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
-Thomas Jefferson
#327
In 365 Quotes
“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
-Thomas Paine
#328
The Key to Life
“The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.”
-Thomas Szasz
#329
In 365 Quotes
“A quote a day, keeps all troubles away.”
-Unknown
#330
The Key to Life
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
-Unknown
#331
In 365 Quotes
“Compassion is the idea that hell may need people like you.”
-Unknown
#332
The Key to Life
“Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
-Unknown
#333
In 365 Quotes
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
-Unknown
#334
The Key to Life
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
-Unknown
#335
In 365 Quotes
“Someone once told me the definition of hell: the last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.”
-Unknown
#336
The Key to Life
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
“Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.”
-Unknown
#339
In 365 Quotes
“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.”
-Venturino Venturini
#340
The Key to Life
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.”
-Victor Hugo
#341
In 365 Quotes
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing – the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
-Viktor Frankl
#342
The Key to Life
“Man is that being who invented the gas chambers in Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer on his lips.”
-Viktor Frankl
#343
In 365 Quotes
“Fortune favors the bold.”
-Virgil
#344
The Key to Life
“Love conquers all.”
-Virgil
#345
In 365 Quotes
“The noblest motive is the public good.”
-Virgil
#346
The Key to Life
“Happiness is the simplest and most ordinary thing in life, not the lofty words like in novels, literature or poems.”
-Virginia Woolf
#347
In 365 Quotes
“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.”
-Voltaire
#348
The Key to Life
“We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.”
-W. H. Auden
#349
In 365 Quotes
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man, only in being superior to your former self.”
-W. L. Sheldon
#350
The Key to Life
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
-William Arthur Ward
#351
In 365 Quotes
“What is poetry? To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
-William Blake
#352
The Key to Life
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.”
-William Butler
#353
In 365 Quotes
“Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.”
-William James
#354
The Key to Life
“There is no such thing as absolute truth, only what is true enough, to proceed.”
-William James
#355
In 365 Quotes
“There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.”
-William James
#356
The Key to Life
“Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.”
-William Johnson Neale
#357
In 365 Quotes
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
-William Makepeace Thackeray
#358
The Key to Life
“With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.”
-William of Ockham
#359
In 365 Quotes
“What's new isn't true, what's true isn't new.”
-William Sargant
#360
The Key to Life
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances. And one man in his time plays many parts.”
-William Shakespeare
#361
In 365 Quotes
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
-William Shakespeare
#362
The Key to Life
“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
-William Shakespeare
#363
In 365 Quotes
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
-Winston Churchill
#364
The Key to Life
“Nobody has ever measured, even the poets, how much a heart can hold.”