Meaning Quotes

“When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.”

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.”

“We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!”

“Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.”

“We get to make a living; we give to make a life.”

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

“The THINGS that COUNT most IN LIFE ARE the THINGS that CAN'T BE COUNTED.”

“A room without books is like a life without meaning.”

“My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.”

“We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.”

“There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.”

“POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.”

“We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.”

“No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.”

“I'm sixty-eight years old. What I do now will be read by unborn generations for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years. For me, it's not about my work - that is, it's not about Wayne Dyer's work, how much money I make, how well I do, or how well my products do.”

“The days of life are consumed, one by one, without an object beyond the present moment; ever flying from the ennui of that, yet carrying it with us; eternally in pursuit of happiness, which keeps eternally before us. If death or bankruptcy happen to trip us out of the circle, it is matter for the buzz of the evening, and is completely forgotten by the next morning.”

“A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.”

“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.”

“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”

“Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.”

“If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.”

“This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.”

“Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.”

“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

“To spend life for something which outlasts it.”