Famous People Quotes

You are not here to make others understand you. You are here to understand yourself.

Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

Love will always come back to you. Just not always from the people you give it to or expect it from. Keep being and giving love.

It's hard when you miss people. But you know if you miss them, that means you're lucky. It means you had someone special in your life, someone worth missing.

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.

Don’t lower your standards to keep anyone, if they’re not making you happy, it’s time to find someone who does.

A lie does not cease to be a lie if millions of people believe in it.

I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious – your heart, your soul. Beauty one could get to know and fall in love with in one hour and cease to love it as speedily; but the soul one must learn to know. Believe me, nothing on earth is given without labour, even love, the most beautiful and natural of feelings. <...> But the more difficult the labour and hardship, the higher the reward.

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

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

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

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.

I don’t want to earn a living; I want to live.

If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

I think that everything in life is art. What you do, how you dress. How do you love someone and how do you say. Your smile and your personality. And all your dreams. How do you drink tea, how to decorate your home or how to have fun. Your shopping list. The food you cook. What your handwriting looks like. How are you feeling. Life is an art.