All Quotes in Life & Meaning
“Forever is composed of nows.”
“Things do not change; we change.”
“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
“The beginning is always today.”
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
“The reward of a thing well done is having done it.”
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”
“One of the big surprises for me about Einstein was... that he wasn't this big introvert; he was more like a novelist or a painter. It's amazing how close society came to not benefiting from Albert Einstein's genius.”
“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
“Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts" ... Albert Einstein”
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
“All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated... As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all... No man is an island, entire of itself... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.”
“"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."”
“Nature's first green is gold, Nothing gold can stay.”
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant. There is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.”
“To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage.”
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
“Study the past if you would define the future.”
“Let him who would move the world first move himself.”
“Love is bigger than anything in its way.”
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
“I wish I was so busy having fun, that I forgot about all the trouble.”
“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
“Children see magic because they look for it.”
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.”
“To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.”
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
“The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.”
“The earth is what we all have in common.”
“If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.”
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