Tag: Life Quotes

“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

“The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer.” – Heinz Pagels

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell

“I am not my fault. What it comes down to is that I am foolish because I am human, and the truth is that we are a species of fools…I think the best thing for all humanity would be to celebrate our foolishness. Our most important holiday would then be April Fool’s Day, one of the few festivals that celebrates all humanity, regardless of religion, skin color, nationality or political persuasion.” – Wes Nisker

“Everything we taste is snatched from death: our responsibility is to taste it completely.” – John Tarrant

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller