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“It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.”

Ifs Life Humans May Helping Life Is Space Accepting Our Lives Events Return Dust Human Life Overwhelming End Times Spend Time Unfathomable

Author:Alain de Botton

“Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.”

Humans Events Disappointment Human Life Guardian Deities Unborn Threshold

Book:The Last Man

Source: The Last Man

“Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life.”

Ifs Men Way Humans May Mean Littles Persons Has Beens Causes Chance Wonder Doors Events Degrees Highest Misery Currents Human Life Trifling Vicissitudes

Author:Sir Fulke Greville

“When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous disease attack one of its important products; let an insect, or a parasite, fasten on a single esculent, and mark the effect upon commerce and human life. Upon such an event all business is deranged.”

Humans Important Joy Effects Events Products Industry Disease Draws Mark Train Prosperity Human Life Commerce Agriculture Harvest Insects Parasites Deranged

Author:Elias Hasket Derby

“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.”

Humans Past Principles Events Experience Train Guides Human Life Customs Past Experiences

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

“There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path. You may remember this "something" as a signal moment in childhood when an urge out of nowhere, a fascination, a peculiar turn of events struck like an annunciation: This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.”

Humans May Philosophy Moments Seems Remember Turns Path Childhood Events Particular Theory Who I Am Human Life Urges Peculiar Sooner Or Later Signals Fascination

Author:James Hillman