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J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes about Life

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Inspirational, Life, Encouraging
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Inspirational, Life, Faith
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Life, False Hope, Dangerous
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Life, Experience, Looks
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Life, Change, Happiness
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Little by little, one travels far

J. R. R. Tolkien
Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Inspirational, Life, Travel
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Life, Nature, World
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Life, Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Inspirational, Life, Hope
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.859, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Inspirational, Life, Wise
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Life, Inspiring, Running
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.690, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Inspirational, Life, Wise

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Life, Wisdom, Anger
The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 1, ch. 3 (1954)

In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Life, Men, Doubt
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.500, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Never laugh at live dragons.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Life, Wisdom, Dragons
The Hobbit ch. 12 (1937)

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Life, Art, Enemy
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Life, Wise, Wisdom
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Life, Wise, Hope
"The Silmarillion". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1977.

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Life, Helping
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.529, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Life, Book, Beer
"The Lost Road and Other Writings". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien. Chapter: "Alboin Errol", 1987.

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