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A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment. George Eliot
Men are living now just the way they were before, as if we didn't have a new all over-shadowing danger to deal with and it’s clear, they have learned nothing from the horrors they've experienced. The little intrigues, with which they complicated their lives before, take up again the greatest part of their thoughts. What a strange species we are. Albert Einstein
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Darwin
The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilized of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought. Alfred North Whitehead
I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition; about what we can endure, dream, fail at, and still survive. Maya Angelou
What is the meaning of life? That was all; a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with the years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark. Virginia Woolf
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. Marjorie Rawlings
The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the proton and electron. The remarkable thing is that the values of these numbers seem to have been finely adjusted to make possible the development of life. Stephen Hawking
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others. Leonardo Da Vinci
Make the best of your circumstances: no one has everything and everyone has something of sorrow intermingled with the gladness of life. The trick is to make the laughter outweigh the tears. Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is the only real counsellor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. Edith Wharton
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you lived; that is to have succeeded. Emerson
There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants. Montaigne
The city is the image of the soul, the surrounding walls being the frontier between the outward and inward life. The gates are the faculties or senses connecting the life of the soul with the outward world. Living springs of water rise within it. And in the center, where beats the heart, stands the holy sanctuary. St. Catherine of Sienna
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. Mark Twain
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die? Charles Lindbergh
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it. Emerson
Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot. George Eliot
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. Dwight Eisenhower
So many people seem unhappy because they’re not doing something important. But what does it matter what a man does, provided he gives, contributes? You must make yourself love what you do, and do it as best you can. What other reason for life can we ever really know for sure? Ed Louette
I treasure this strange combination found in very few persons: a fierce desire for life as well as a lucid perception of the ultimate futility of the quest. Madeleine Gobeil
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life. Rachel Carson
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. Lowell
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken in us the sharp edge of sense and that impression of mystic strangeness which otherwise passes out of life with the coming of years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man’s character from the fountain upwards. Robert Louis Stevenson
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time. Franklin Adams
We must use time wisely, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Nelson Mandela
Live for the moment, you cannot find peace when avoiding life.
Virginia Wood
Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be. Wayne W Dyer
