Quotes: L

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
- George Washington

Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.
- William Russell

Let me write the songs of a nation and I do not care who writes its laws.
- Plato

Let your heart be awakened to the transforming power of gratefulness.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Life can only be understood backward. It must be lived forward.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Life is a bit like a piece of fruit. When you take a big bite out of it, if you can just spit out the seeds without obsessing about how they’ve ruined the experience for you…you’ll find that there’s a lot of delightful juice left in there for you to suck out and a whole lot left to chew on.
- Chuck Brown

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.
- Harold B. Melchart

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr