Life Quotes

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”

“Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it”

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

“Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope,And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breathIn that close kiss and drank her whisper'd tales.They said that Love would die when Hope was gone.And Love mourn'd long, and sorrow'd after Hope;At last she sought out Memory, and they trodThe same old paths where Love had walked with Hope,And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears.”

“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”

“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”

“The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.”

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there's something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”

“I rebel; therefore I exist.”

“The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.”

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”