A Quotes
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“A life of working dutifully to secure acquisitions tends to dull the intelligence and creativity of a human being. The ultimate goal of an ingenious person is to expand human consciousness by growing into his or her surroundings and realizing how their spiritual essence does not stand in isolation.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.”
Source: Novels & other narratives, 1986-1991
“A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!”
Source: Songs of the sea, with other poems
“A life out of balance is a person that doesn’t believe happiness can be achieved now, or in the future. It is as fleeting as the wind.”
“A life path may have strange twists and turnings, and we do not always end up where we intend to go....”
Source: The Forest House
“A life postponed too long might never be lived.”
Source: A Door Into Ocean
“A life premised upon honest effort and questing for love is bound to generate regret and remorse.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A life rooted deeply lives and grows in memory.”
“A life rooted in faith is a life anchored in hope, guided by purpose, and destined for eternity.”
“A life's meaning comes not from the manner in which one dies, but in the manner in which one lives.”
Source: The Caldarian Conflict
“A life saved is a family saved.”
Source: Time to Save Medicine
“A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will be punished, but not by emulating the violent. This seems eminently more consistent with American ideals than continuing to share the killing stage with some of the world's worst human rights violators.”
“A life should be lived for the sake of heaven. One man is not better than another because he is a doctor while the other is a shoemaker. One man is not better than another because he is a lawyer while the other is a painter. A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.”
Source: My Name Is Asher Lev
“A life spent at one's desk is a life alone.”
“A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear.”
“A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.”
Source: The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary
“A life spent in nature is a life well lived.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.”
“A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.”
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spend doing nothing.”
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.”
“A life spent working and living in a small town with people I may disagree with has taught me a lot about humility and forgiveness. And when to keep my mouth shut. Some lessons have been more painful than others, but my days and my life are richer because of them.”
Source: If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name
“A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Memoir of His Life
“A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.”
Source: In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
“A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be a success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day.”
Source: Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
“A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day.”
Source: Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
“A life taken is a life undone, forever suspended in a state of unfinished business.”
Source: The Ballad of Frankie Silver
“A life that ends undefined is not well defined”
“A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.”
“A life that ignores the miseries of others is no human life.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“A life that is actually lived is one that is with significance.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.”
Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“A life that is lived without regard to God cannot be called living.”
“A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.”
Source: Answers to Life's Difficult Questions
“A life that is planned is a closed life, my friend. It can be endured but it cannot be lived.”
“A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.”
Source: The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation
“A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.”
“A life that lacks physical exercise and activity leads to lethargy and promotes sickness of both body and mind. Exercise is important because it helps the heart, lungs, muscles and brain to be more efficient in their use of oxygen. Take personal responsibility over what you can control – it’s your life.”
Source: Making Success Deliberate
“A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism.”
“A life that moves to gracious ends
Thro' troops of unrecording friends,
A deedful life, a silent voice.”
“A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'.”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.”
“A life thus names a restless activeness, a destructive-creative force-presence that does not coincide fully with any specific body. A life tear the fabric of the actual without ever coming fully 'out' in a person, place, or thing. A life points to ... 'matter in variation that enters assemblages and leaves them. A life is a vitality proper not to any individual but to 'pure immanence,' or that protean swarm that is not actual though it is real: 'A life contains only virtuals. It is made of virtualities.”
Source: Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
“A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely”
Source: The R. J. Ellory Collection
“A life totally committed to God has nothing to fear, nothing to lose, nothing to regret.”
“A life touched by the Holy Spirit will tolerate sin no longer.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth.”
Source: Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul
“A life void-of-purpose is no life at all”