The Best
Things
in Life
Are Free
(my favorite quotes)
(sample quotations from the book)
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop
When you pray, move your feet. African proverb
Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a straw. Can you fly in the air? You have done no better than a bluebottle. Conquer your heart; then you may become somebody. Ansari of Herat, hermit
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. Richard Bach, author
The reason birds can fly and we cannot is simply that they have perfect
faith, for to have faith is to have wings. James Matthew Barrie, children's author
Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one
becomes rich. Sarah Bernhardt, actress
When you reach the end of all the light there is and you must step out into
the darkness, remember that two things may happen: You either will find
something to stand on or you will be taught how to fly. Book of Edges
Kindness is a language the dumb can speak, and
the deaf can hear and understand. Christian Bovee
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously
re-examine your life. Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes comic strip
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. Paul Cezanne, painter
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author
You must speak straight so that your words go as sunlight into our hearts. Cochise, Indian leader
And though I have all faith, so that I could move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2
To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best to make you
everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can
fight, and never stop fighting. e. e. cummings, poet
If a man throws himself out of the fourth floor window, and
you cant make a sketch of him before he gets to the ground, you will never do
anything big. Eugθne Delacroix, painter
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to
find it? Dogen
We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone
wrong. Arthur Eddington, physicist
Not everything that can be counted, counts. And not everything
that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein, physicist
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a
miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein,
physicist
All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it
will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, mythologist
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to
improve the world. Anne Frank, author, The Diary of Anne Frank
The secrets of the universe are discovered when you break
things. game players blog
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who
find it. Andre Gidι, novelist and critic
Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is
required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming
heart. Arnold H. Glasow, author
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its
original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. supreme court justice
Dance as if no one were watching. Sing as if no one were
listening. And live every day as if it were your last. Irish proverb
May serenity circle on silent wings and catch the whisper of the wind. Cheewa James, author

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
Do not even listen. Simply wait. Do not even wait; be quiet, still and solitary.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice. It
will roll in ecstasy at your feet. Franz Kafka, novelist
Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt
you. Not being able to express an idea or a word will hurt you much more. As
much as a bullet. Jamaica Kincaid
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely
no good. Ann Landers, advice columnist
I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles
when every year there are miracles like white dogwood. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, author
Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the
universe are imprinted on the cells of your body. Dan Millman, author
The soul can split the sky in two,
and let the face of God shine through.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. Toni
Morrison, novelist
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not
dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. Pablo Picasso, artist
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who
really love; the more they give, the more they possess. Rainer Maria Rilke,
poet
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to
never stop loving them. Buildings burn. People die. But real love lives forever.
Sarah, character in The Crow TV show
All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. Whatever
befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit on the ground, they
spit on themselves. Chief Seattle, Indian leader
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can docan love things
that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or
we can make music. You know what to do. Barbara Sher, author
Making the decision to have a childits momentous. It is to decide forever
to have your heart go walking outside your body. Elizabeth Stone, author
Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of
love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa, religious leader
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green soul.
Dylan Thomas, poet
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows
through. Paul Valery, poet and critic
The day you really want to end all hunger, there will be no
more hunger. Neale Donald Walsch, author, Conversations with God
We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are
like oceans and like fires. Barry White, singer
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the
world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover
from the wonder of it? Jeanette Winterson
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a
perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. Lin Yutang
Here are the other seven books in the Illustrated Quotable Books section. Click on the titles to see sample quotations:
How to Live Your Dreams
If at First You Dont Succeed, Try, Try Again
If God Intended Man to Smoke, Hed Have Set Him on Fire
and Other Conclusions of Gods Work
If I Had My Life to Live Over . . .
The Miracle of Life
Playing the Percentages: Lies, Damned Funny Lies, Statistics, and Everything in Between
When in Doubt, Kiss the Fish And Other Extremely Wise Advice