quotes on life

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ~John, Viscount Morley, Address on Aphorisms



Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray. ~Paul Morand



Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. ~Elbert Hubbard



When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment. ~Steven Halpern



Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. ~Rainer Maria Rilke



The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. ~G.K. Chesterton



Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter. ~Lemony Snicket



I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. ~Psalms 119:100



Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. ~Violeta Parra



Is there life before death? ~Author Unknown



At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche. ~Carl Jung



For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. ~John Burroughs



Hockey is murder on ice. ~Jim Murray



Simply because we do not run across goal lines, slam dunk basketballs, or hit home runs, doesn't mean we can't change the score. ~Author Unknown



All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. ~Lord Byron



Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out. ~Princess Anne of Great Britain



Ignorance and prejudice are fuelling the spread of a preventable disease. World AIDS Day, 1 December is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV and AIDS.... It's up to you, me and us to stop the spread of HIV and end prejudice. ~worldaidsday.org, 2006



When hope is hungry, everything feeds it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. ~James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son



You can cage the singer but not the song. ~Harry Belafonte