(1879-1955) German-born American Physicist
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
Daily Inspirational Quotes on Life!
- George Bernard Shaw: "This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one."
- Sophocles: "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love."
- Vincent van Gogh: "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
- Sydney J. Harris: When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
- Louise Erdrich: Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after -- lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel: You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.: Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
- Diane Ackerman: I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo: Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.
Daily Inspirational Quotes on Love!
- Benjamin Franklin: "We must indeed, all hang together or,most assuredly, we shall hang separately."
- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamat: The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.
- Rumi: Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek & find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
- Barbara De Angelis: Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
- Kahlil Gibran: Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
- Barbara De Angelis: Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
- Francis of Assisi: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy
- Oscar Wilde: Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
- Susan Faludi: The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him - or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.
Daily Inspirational Quotes on Humor!
- Greenville Kleisser: Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keep friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
- George Bernard Shaw: My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
- G. K. Chesterton: Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity.