850 Quotations Found

A good character is the best tombstone. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble.

Author: Charles H. Spurgeon | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Consumerism, Life & Society, Material Possessions, Personal Improvement

In a world marked by constant change, the only security is your ability to produce something of value for your fellow man, and your only guarantee of happiness is your joy in producing it.

Author: William J. Reilly | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

The quality of your life is directly related to the quality of your stories. Especially those you tell yourself.

Author: Pamela Slim | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

Author: Daniel Kahneman | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior

Anybody can die nobly for a cause. The sign of maturity is to live day by day for that cause.

Author: Melvin Van Peebles | Subject: Life & Society

If the unexamined life is not worth living, it’s equally true that the unlived life is not worth examining.

Author: Parker J. Palmer | Subject: Life & Society

Violence is what happens when we don’t know what else to do with our suffering. Sometimes we aim that violence at ourselves … sometimes we aim that violence at other people.

Author: Parker J. Palmer | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Pain & Suffering, Psychology | Behavior

To grow in love and service, you — I, all of us — must value ignorance as much as knowledge and failure as much as success… Clinging to what you already know and do well is the path to an unlived life. So, cultivate beginner’s mind, walk straight into your not-knowing, and take the risk of failing and falling again and again, then getting up … [ Read more ]

Author: Parker J. Palmer | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Author: W. M. Lewis | Subject: Life & Society

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society

Even after one has experienced love, one finds difficulty defining it. Likewise, one may define it and then have all kinds of trouble experiencing it, because, once having defined it, one is in too pompous a frame of mind ever again to submit to its sweet illusion. By and large, love is easier to experience before it has been explained — easier and cleaner. The … [ Read more ]

Author: E.B. White | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Love

We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.

Author: Theodore Roosevelt | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Author: Samuel Ullman | Subjects: Concepts, Life & Society, Soul

Solitude is to genius the stern friend. He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from traveling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Subjects: Leadership, Life & Society

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Life & Society, Personal Improvement

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

Author: William Wallace | Subject: Life & Society

I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Author: Martha Washington | Subjects: Happiness, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | Subject: Life & Society