“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Letter to his daughter, 1865
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459 quotes on life and the lessons it teaches — from the classics to the everyday.
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
John Lubbock · The Use of Life, 1894
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
Henry David Thoreau · Journal, 1856
“Dum differtur vita transcurrit.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, Letter I
“Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.”
African Proverb
“A tree is straightened while it is young.”
African Proverb
“A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.”
African Proverb
“Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.”
Guinean Proverb
“When the music changes, so does the dance.”
Hausa Proverb
“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”
African Proverb
“It takes a village to raise a child.”
West African Proverb
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
Ernest Hemingway · The Wild Years, 1962
“Saturday morning, you knew what you were gonna do. There was no question about it. You wake up, eat your cereal, watch cartoons.”
Joe Mantegna
“Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.”
Richard Nelson Bolles
“I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”
Audrey Hepburn
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life. The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.”
Steve Jobs · Stanford University commencement, 2005
“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”
Sean Patrick Flanery
