Quotes of Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“ The more one judges, the less one loves. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ Though lovers be lost love shall not. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ”

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

“ You are successful in my book if you do what you love for a living; you do not owe money to anyone; you have a place what you call home; you have a wife/husband, a girlfriend/boyfriend, or a partner who loves and respects you; and most importantly, you are surrounded by friends and loved ones who stand by you in good and bad days. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Be Brave, Be Bold! Never allow fear to dictate your choices. Use your VOICE & trust in your abilities. ”

- Rosalie Bardo

“ If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Rise as a human being live as a legend work as a Messiah and you shall see the bright glorious change all around you. ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ”

- Susan Ee

“ Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ Don't be pushed by your problems;be led by your dreams. Believe in you. ”

- Vasso Charalambous

“ Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. ”

- James R. Sherman

“ If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ”

- Confucius

“ It's all a conundrum, isn't it— forgetting the mixed tape in the car... feeling forgotten when... so many people are thinking of us? Drinking when we should be eating... sleeping when we should be making love... thanking God above when we don't have enough? Each day is a mad rush to something irrelevant. We measure our pricelessness by our successes, which... still equals money. Life goes by so quick when each day is a mad rush to slow motion. We eat fast food so that we can go to bed on time, but, trust me, everyone wakes up too late. ”

- Heather Angelika Dooley

“ Isn't it strange how we all start as strangers? Fall in love, share infinities, hurt each other, fall out of love to eventually end as the strangers we once were? ”

- Fiphie

“ Hmm…now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don’t pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates