Quotes about life
life dream collective-effort
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams. Terence McKenna
life fall communication
The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.
life animal ridiculous
The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.
life lying self
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
life-is
My life is basically my work. Temple Grandin
life death wisdom
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. Tecumseh
life leadership causes
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson
life god angel
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
life believe men
Every man believes he has a greater possibility.
life greatness danger
As soon as there is life there is danger.
life fitness yoga
The first wealth is health.
life wise wisdom
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
life ideas return
To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.
life people intellectual
Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.
life believe sight
Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.
life wish experience
I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.
life reading book
Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.
life girl sweet
The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.
life hands storm
[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand....
life positive girl
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.
life motivation firsts
The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
life shoes fiber
When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body.
life men literature
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
life sweet men
When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.
life men faces
Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
life intelligent men
A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty.
life weather savages
Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.
life dark mind
Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
life doe chance
He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.
life art hands
In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
life life-is
Life is a search after power.
life men self
The life of man is a self-evolving circle.
life ambition night
We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.