Category: Life Quotes

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely.” – Buddha

“If you’re going to be alive on this planet, you have to like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.” – Drew Barrymore

“In time we hate that which we often fear.” – William Shakespeare

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – William James

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character: and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thoughts and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.” – John Stuart Mill

“For now, she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of – to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself; a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others…Not as oneself did one find rest ever, in her experience, but as a wedge of darkness. Losing personality, losing the fret, the hurry, the stir; and there rose to her lips always some exclamation of triumph over life when things came together in this peace, this rest, this eternity.” – Virginia Woolf

“At twenty, we worry about what others think of us; at forty, we don’t care what they think of us; at sixty, we discover they haven’t been thinking about us at all.” – Bob Hope, quoted in the London Daily Mail

“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.” – Lin Yutang