Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.  Soren Kierkegaard quotes The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and friends. Parents we can have but once; and he promises himself too much, who enters life with the expectation of finding many friends. Samuel Johnson quotes I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt quotes There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. Samuel Johnson quotes Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms. Samuel Johnson quotes Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. Samuel Smiles quotes Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. Samuel Smiles quotes In the life of each of us, I said to myself, 'There is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.' Sarah Orne Jewett quotes If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others. Walter Scott, Sr. quotes Prudence keeps life safe, but it does not often make it happy. Samuel Johnson quotes | 
