William Butler Yeats Quotes, Life Quotes, Ambition Quotes

I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.

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The things that make me different are the things that make me.

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They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

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There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

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The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

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There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

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Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

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When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body.

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God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

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Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

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How much of human life is lost in waiting.

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The moment you venture out, something takes place in you and about you. Life comes to your aid in various ways. You may not like the form in which it comes to you - it may be misery, struggle, starvation - but when you invite life, things begin to happen.

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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

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O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!

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I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.

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