We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible

You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.

Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things

But it isn’t easy,’ said Pooh. ‘Because Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they’re things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

A food critic really only needs two things in order to do his job properly: no eating disorders and the gastric morals of a hooker with a mortgage

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about

It isn’t sufficient just to want—you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want

It is the little things that get me angry. The great traumas are easier: you can always work your way through to reason.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

When I was a little boy in school I had to dress up as a bunny and there’s a picture of me with an annoyed face, and when I saw it, I thought I should name myself ‘Bad Bunny

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

The one thing that I really dislike, is being alone.

The great thing about him, is that he will not quit.

Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.

When the wind blows,the grass bends.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn’t found interesting things to do.

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what’s left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.

I’ve got mad energy for days. That’s what people can’t get their minds around. They say, ‘Oh, he’s going to crash.’ They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don’t fit into their little box.

It’s not about the big deal you struck that day, it’s not about the new car, it’s not about the obvious stuff. It’s about that little introspective moment you had in the middle of all that. Those are moments between the moments, and that’s where life is.

There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.

I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life; what’s wrong with that?

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn’t?

The only thing I’m addicted to right now is winning.

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is not good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first, I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself.

Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh, and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination and a little dough.

To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in this world. And with every soul you bring to Jesus Christ, you seem to get a new heaven here upon earth.

If we would always recollect that we live among men who are imperfect, we should not be in such a fever when we find out our friend’s failings.

You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships of the situation must not be merely transient – at least not in appearance. Otherwise, the enemy would not give in, but would wait for things to improve.

If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition – even when it seems to be doing a little good – we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate.

The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?

We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”

Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance

As a child, I felt myself to be alone and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

I used to worry a lot. I still worry a lot, but not about the things that I used to worry about because my younger self, I didn’t regret anything that I ever did… I was happy, and I was free, and I was living it up.

Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth, they cannot live

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

Life is better lived than conceptualized. This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation.

Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.

Most people live only for their image.

I know I’m not perfect and I don’t live to be

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

Live to fight another day

They say: only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; live for others, and you will live again.

The longer you live, the better you get.

To live outside the law you must be honest.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

If I am going to live, I want to live fully. Very intensely, because I am an intense person

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I’m surrounded by a sea of misery.

I would never want to live partially, suffering from illness or injury

I could die for you. But I couldn’t, and wouldn’t, live for you.

For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart.

The greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings… I’m a long way from the human being I’d like to be. But I’ve decided I’m not so bad after all

I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears

Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability

One should use common words to say uncommon things.

Each day is a little life

The eternal being which, as it lives in us, also lives in every animal… the animal is in essence absolutely the same thing that we are

Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.

Come with me if you want to live.

My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established I am allergic to things like gluten – I can’t eat pizza, pasta and bread. I have lost some weight, but my movement is sharper and I feel great

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms

This is how I meet people — I can’t just, like, meet someone at a bar. I live fast and full-out, and I make mistakes, and I learn from them and I’m grateful no matter what happens

Man is born to live and not to prepare for life.

I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can’t do anything to change events anyway.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects – the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism – are daily devalued by commercial art

Pop art is a way of liking things

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to learn how to be babies longer

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you

I am no longer cursed by poverty because I took possession of my own mind, and that mind has yielded me every material thing I want, and much more than I need. But this power of mind is a universal one, available to the humblest person as it is to the greatest

There is little success where there is little laughter.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live

You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one’s mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are

A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living

Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

This long disease, my life

The spider’s touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail, reason the card, but passion is the gale.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning

To give preference to the life of the intellect is to prefer a pattern of existence which, however imperious it may seem, is felt to be optional. The life of the intellect is a life that one can live or not live. It is, potentially, a life in which one can withdraw from the task of living

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it has to be done, whether you like it or not

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant, and interesting

There was once a Charcoal-burner who lived and worked by himself. A Fuller, however, happened to come and settle in the same neighbourhood; and the Charcoal-burner, having made his acquaintance and finding he was.

AN ASS having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices. They replied, “The dew.” The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger

There can be little liking where there is no likeness.

Precious things are for those that can prize them

Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror

Little by little does the trick.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up

Perhaps Jesus is asking of you a little task, and, if you find it, later He will ask of you something that is greater. Always keep your eyes open for the little task, because it is the little task which is important to Jesus Christ. The future of the Kingdom of God does not depend on the enthusiasm of this or that powerful person; those great ones are necessary too, but it is equally necessary to have a great number of little people who will do a little thing in the service of Christ.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives

The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live. He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.

The only ones among youThe only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve

Do a little more of what you want to do every day, until your idea becomes what’s real.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that’s what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is

When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tear

Live to the point of tears

Appreciate the little things in life, they’re what really matter the most.