459 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'”
Martin Luther King Jr. · "I Have a Dream" speech, Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin · "As Much Truth As One Can Bear," The New York Times Book Review, 1962
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”
Charles R. Swindoll · Strengthening Your Grip, 1982
“The future depends on what you do today.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”
Walt Whitman
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”
Walter Elliot · The Spiritual Life
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”
Steve Jobs · Stanford Commencement Address, 2005
“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”
Jim Rohn
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
Maya Angelou
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
Arthur Ashe
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Confucius
“Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.”
Anthony Bourdain · Medium Raw, 2010
“I'm a big believer in winging it. I'm a big believer that you're never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one.”
Anthony Bourdain
“Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only at Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head?”
Anthony Bourdain · Kitchen Confidential, 2000
“The Way of the Pirate, as far as cooking goes, consists of a willingness to work hard, a willingness to put up with discomfort, and a certain recklessness.”
Anthony Bourdain · Kitchen Confidential, 2000
“Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me.”
Anthony Bourdain
“I should have been dead at 30. I should not, by any rights, be sitting here talking to you.”
Anthony Bourdain
