Meaningful Quotes

Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Mahatma Gandhi

Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something different.

Author Unknown

To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

Socrates

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful that the risk it took to bloom.

Anais Nin

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Larry Bird

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Marcel Marceau

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Alan Cohen

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Euripides

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy

At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

Chinese Proverb

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death.

Robert Fulghum

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

Barbara Bush

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Helen Keller

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.

Ruth Gordon

Birthday Quotes

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
Author Unknown


A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost


A well adjusted woman is one who not only knows what she wants for her birthday, but even knows what she's going to exchange it for.
Author Unknown


All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
George Harrison


And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln


Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson


Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear...But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
Martial
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
Larry Lorenzoni


Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.
Edward Steichen


First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly.
Branch Rickey


Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Chili Davis

I never forget my wife's birthday. It's usually the day after she reminds me about it.
Anonymous


I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.
Anonymous


I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius.
George Carlin


Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing


Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
Jennifer Yane


It takes a long time to grow young.
Pablo Picasso


Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Charles Schulz


Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote


May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
Frank Sinatra


Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.
Dan Bennett


Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis

Purpose Of Life Quotes

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

No eternal reward will forgive us now

For wasting the dawn.

Jim morrison

From The Wasp.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didnt get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

Author Unknown

Sometimes attributed to Buddha, but this is disputed.

I believe that the very purpose of life is to seek happiness.

Dalai Lama

The Art of Happiness.

From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax, to be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, and enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth.

Thich Nhat Hanh

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Robert Byrne

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

Voltaire

You see the Earth as a bright blue and white Christmas tree ornament in the black sky. It's so small and so fragile - you realize that on that small spot is everything that means everything to you; all of history and art and death and birth and love.

Russell Schweikart, astronaut

To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.

Stephen MacKenna

We all possess the thunder of pure fury and the calm breeze of tranquility. If it wasn't for tomorrow, how much would we get done today? Whatever your purpose... embrace it completely. Get lost in the clouds every now and then so you never lose sight of God's wonder.

Paul Vitale

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.

Washington Irving

I would rather be ashes than dust; I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brillant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot; I would rather be in a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow than in a sleepy and permanent planet; the proper function of man is to live, not to exist; I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them; I shall USE my time.

Jack London

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. 

Alan Coren

The Sanity Inspector.

How to gain, how to keep, and how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive for all they do.

William James

In men whom men condemn as ill,

I find so much of goodness still,

In men whom men pronounce divine,

I find so much of sin and blot,

I do not dare to draw a line

Between the two, where God has not.

Joaquin Miller

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced; live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Cherokee Saying

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Sophocles

You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should.

Max Ehrmann

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Joan Borysenko

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

George Elliot

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.

John Ruskin

Life is a promise; fulfill it.

Mother Theresa

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

James Michener

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose

Richard Leider

If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have done my best." That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

Lin Yutang

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

You are what your deep driving desire is; As your deep driving desire is, so is your will; As your will is so is your deed; As your deed is so is your destiny.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Thank You Quotes

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?

William Ward

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.

William Shakespeare

I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.

Author Unknown

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

G.B. Stern

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

Oscar Wilde

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

Thank you for the good times,

The days you filled with pleasure.

Thank you for fond memories,

And for feelings I'll always treasure

Karl Fuchs

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

James Allen

How beautiful a day can be

When kindness touches it!

George Elliston

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

Jean Baptiste Massieu

To say thank you, is in recognition of humanity.

Toni Mont

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

John F. Kennedy

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is "thank you", it will be enough.

Meister Eckhart

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

G.K. Chesterton

The six most important words: I admit I made a mistake. The five most important words: You did a good job. The four most important words: What is YOUR opinion? The three most important words: If you please. The two most important words: Thank You. The one most important word: We. The least important word: I.

Author Unknown

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

Ralph Marston

I find that the more willing I am to be grateful for the small things in life, the bigger stuff just seems to show up from unexpected sources, and I am constantly looking forward to each day with all the surprises that keep coming my way!

Louise L. Hay

I thank everyone that has caused me to suffer, without you I would have no reason to express myself.

Author Unknown

The depth and the willingness with which we serve is a direct reflection of our gratitude.

Gordon T. Watts

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.

Author Unknown

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Albert Pike

Saying thank you creates love.

Daphne Rose Kingma

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

Jean Baptiste Massieu

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

William Feather

I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Benjamin Disraeli

Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.

Author Unknown

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

William Arthur Ward

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

David O. McKay

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

Cicero

Funny Quotes

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Mark Twain

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo Philips

A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said 'no'.
Woody Allen

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to rouse the interest, but long enough to cover the essentials.
Ronald Knox

A hard man is good to find.
Mae West

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
Mae West

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

A man in the house is worth two in the street.
Mae West

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
Groucho Marx

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on.
Sam Goldwyn

A woman drove me to drink, and I never even had the courtesy to thank her.
W.C. Fields

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Rudyard Kipling

Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.
Dilbert

All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.
George Orwell

All the things I really like are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
Alexander Woollcott

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Mark Twain

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Winston Churchill

Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away.
Mae West

Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.
Woody Allen

Another such victory, and we are undone.
Pyrrhus

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Groucho Marx

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
Mae West

As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.
Oliver Goldsmith

Avoid employing unlucky people. Throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.
David Brent

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be in my bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Benjamin Franklin

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West

Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female.
Desmond Morris

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

Friendship Quotes

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

Friends are the sunshine of life.

John Hay

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Leo Buscaglia

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.

Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I get by with a little help from my friends 

John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Make new friends, but keep the old;

Those are silver, these are gold.

Joseph Parry

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Helen Keller

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Winnie the Pooh

Life Quotes

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Hans Christian Andersen

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.

Martin H. Fischer

What is this life if, full of care, 

We have no time to stand and stare?

W. H. Davies

The healthiest response to life is joy.

Deepak Chopra

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.

Chinese Proverb

When you're chewing on life's gristle

Don't grumble, give a whistle

And this'll help things turn out for the best...

And...always look on the bright side of life...

Always look on the light side of life.

Monty Python's Life of Brian

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joseph Addison

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

Lillian Dickson

There is no wealth but life.

John Ruskin

Inspirational Quotes

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you dream it, you can become it.

William Arthur Ward

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Christopher Columbus

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

Henry Ford

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And Today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

Babatunde Olatunji

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.

John Wooden

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

Author Unknown

Chinese Proverbs

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.

Chinese Proverb

A smile will gain you ten more years of life.

Chinese Proverb

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Chinese Proverb

He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself.

Chinese Proverb

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.

Chinese Proverb

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.

Chinese Proverb

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Chinese Proverb

Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.

Chinese Proverb

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

Chinese Proverb

Simpsons Quotes

I like my beer cold, my TV loud and my couch inviting.

Homer Simpson

Eat my shorts.

Bart Simpson

Bart, stop pestering Satan!

Marge Simpson

To alcohol! The cause of - and solution to - to all of life's problems.

Homer Simpson

I’m Normally Not a Praying Man, but If You’re up There, Please save Me Superman.

Homer Simpson

Marge, I'm going to miss you so much. And it's not just the sex. It's also the food preparation.

Homer Simpson

Ah, good ol' trustworthy beer. My love for you will never die.

Homer Simpson

Let us all bask in television's warm glowing warming glow.

Homer Simpson

Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love!

Homer Simpson

Family, religion, friends… these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.

Mr. Burns

Oscar Wilde Quotes

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Oscar Wilde

I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde

There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. 

Oscar Wilde

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated His ability.

Oscar Wilde

Shakespeare Quotes

To be, or not to be: that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them?

William Shakespeare

Hamlet, 3:1

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow.

William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet, 2:2

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, 2:5

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more: it is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare

Macbeth, 5:5

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet, 1:5

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players

They have their exits and their entrances

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages.

William Shakespeare

As You Like It, 2:7

All that glisters is not gold.

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice, 2:7

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar, 2:2

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar, 3:2

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, 

As I foretold you, were all spirits and 

Are melted into air, into thin air: 

And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, 

The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, 

The solemn temples, the great globe itself, 

Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve 

And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, 

Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff 

As dreams are made on, and our little life 

Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

The Tempest 4:1