A Quotes
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“all Lies from your self, makes distroy to your self in a certain ways”
“All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.”
“All life and everything he knew contained within the kaleidoscope of colors and impulse he knew as life would be gone, shriveled, turned to dust if he could not rise and control and express and be free. Finally, be free. Finally.
He couldn’t wait.”
Source: Becoming the Conjurer
“All life battles teach us something, even those we lose”
“All life began underneath the ocean. So I'm giving people a taste of what existence might have been like before civilization.'
'But we were amoebas and tiny shrimplike creatures. We didn't start off in deep-sea-diving outfits.'
'We all come into this world with an oxygen tube in our belly button.'
'True.'
She put her hands up to her own belly. There had so recently been a sea creature evolving in there, trying its best to get its act together. It had perished under the deep, deep, deep sea.”
Source: The Lonely Hearts Hotel
“All life connects ... Nothing happens that is meaningless.”
“All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.”
“All life depends on organic reactions.
A favorite saying.”
“All life depends upon the opportunistic interplay between elemental forces, the mysterious dualities of the numinous universe. Ying and yang forces of the natural world (lightness and darkness, fire and water, expansion and contraction) create tangible dualities that are complementary, interconnected, and independent. Without the firmament in the midst of the waters, without both sunshine and water, no life forms could subsist on this rocky orb. Without the rich soil surrounded by a canopy of an illimitable sky how could we feed ourselves, how could we breathe?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion.”
“All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.”
“All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend the poet Kenneth Koch once said, You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!”
Source: Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
“All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.”
Source: The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition
“All life feels the pain of its existence.”
“All life-forms are innocent, but man is the greatest innocent life-form that the universe has ever produced.
Man is never created bad, as some primitive “revelations” claim.
Man is both all-capable, and innocent;
Man cannot have better attributes than the ones he already has.
Once we defeat scarcity, the factor that has forced all our negative attributes into existence will be no more.
Man’s nature is forged by scarcity.
Man is a child of scarcity.
Some men may currently live in abundance, even obscene abundance, but they still are the children of scarcity.
We all are.”
Source: The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity
“All life forms could have originated from one source.”
“All life forms value their own existence and the reaching of their potential. Instead of constantly seeing our own life and needs as being of primary importance, we can soften that view with an appreciation of the value and needs of everyone and everything.”
Source: Dance: A Spiritual Affair
“All life goes in a circle, around and around, you started at one place, and then came right back to it again.”
“All life has a birthright.”
“All life has emptiness at its core; it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the music that is our life.”
Source: Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives
“All life has suffering. But to live is to suffer. So we bless life, we bless death, we bless sickness and health, we bless happiness and sadness. We say om mani padme hum to bless all suffering borne by all beings, as the suffering is our karma. And our karma is our life.”
Source: A Story of Karma: Finding Love and Truth in the Lost Valley of the Himalaya
“All life has two trajectories: the one linear and irreversible, the trajectory of ageing and dying, the other elliptical and reversible, a cycle of the same forms in a sequence which knows neither childhood, death nor the unconscious, and which leaves nothing behind. This sequence is constantly intersecting with the other, and occasionally erases all traces of it at a stroke.”
Source: Cool memories
“All life includes loss. It's taken me many, many years to learn to deal with that, and I don't expect I'll ever be fully resigned to it. But that doesn't mean we have to turn away from the world, or stop striving for the best that we can do and be. We owe that much to ourselves, at least, and we deserve whatever measure of good may come of it.”
“All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.”
“All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give.”
Source: Going Within: A Guide for Inner Transformation
“All life is a delusion of the senses.”
“All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.”
“All Life Is A Fucking Shit
Where People Whom You Meet Make It
A Bullshit”
“All life is a jest, Imhotep - and it is death who laughs last. Do you not hear it at every feast? Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die.”
Source: Death Comes as the End
“All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.”
Source: The Art of Peace
“All life is a miracle.”
“All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.”
“All life is a nap. The more naps you take the better.”
“All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“All life is a revelation
through images and observation.
Discovery can be
through the eyes of another.”
Source: The Common Ground
“All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?”
“All life is a struggle in the dark.”
“All life is a struggle.... Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.”
Source: Thrift; Or, How to Get on in the World...
“All life is a test one way or the other.”
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make better.”
“All life is an experiment.”
“All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.”
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year
“All life is bound to a simple truth... that time goes on, that in each person's life begins a tale, a tale that will either end in memory or in legend.”
“All life is but a skull-bone and
A rack of ribs through which
we keep passing food & fuel-
just so's we can burn so
furious beautiful.”
“All life is death. You don't fool yourself about this anymore. You slash at the perfect canvas with strokes of paint and replace the perfect picture of your imagination with the reality of what you are capable of. From death, and sorrow, and compromise, you create. This is what it means, you finally realize, to be alive. ("The Chambered Fruit")”
Source: American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
“All life is divine, whether you know it or not. Your inner make-up, essence, bio-chemical substratum, life-giving-god-particle, nano atomic structure etc. - by whatever name you choose to address "it" - is One, with the Cosmic Immanence. Whether you know it or not.”
“All life is dying life – including the life of God.”
Source: Theology's Strange Return
“All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world is responding in kind.”
“All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.”
Source: The Science of the Sacraments