Authors:

Life Quotes - Page 156

Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.

Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.84, Heron Dance Press

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler, Donald Mitchell, Knud Martner (1973). “Gustav Mahler: memories and letters”, John Murray Publishers

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Emanuel Swedenborg (1871). “Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful Pleasures”, p.310

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Quoted in Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972)

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.113, Vintage