inspirational quotes about love and life

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. ~Henri Amiel



If a patient cannot clean his teeth, no dentist can clean them for him. ~Martin H. Fischer



With an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use. ~Samuel Johnson



A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. ~Charles Lamb, "Popular Fallacies: That the Worst Puns are the Best," Last Essays of Elia, 1833



To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. ~Eva Young



The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. ~Henry Miller



An exhibitionist is nothing without a voyeur. ~S.A. Sachs



As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. ~Lucinda Franks



Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. ~Haim G. Ginott



She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. ~Mae West



No party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. ~Desiderius Erasmus



If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. ~Hamilton Fish



Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. ~Ayn Rand



Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. ~Lord Acton



Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was. ~Julian Green, Diary, 28 December 1958



Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. ~Dr. Seuss



Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. ~Author Unknown



Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned. ~Tenzin Gyatso Affluence creates poverty. ~Marshall McLuhan