“Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, history, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, it is to be all but dead.” LifeLife IsStarsPleasureKindnessAliveFlowerPrideGoodnessEternalAnd LoveMaking MoneyPurityLengthAppetiteBreadthGoodness And KindnessPurity And Love Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock
“There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.” MenLifeYoungPassionThreeMiddleAppetiteThree ThingsMiddle AgedCovetousness Author:Confucius
“None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.” MenLifeSelfStrongPleasurePayGreaterHe ManRegretConversationDemandExpectationsAngryEnthusiasmFormerAppetiteImpatientTransientDisagreeableCreditors Author:James Goldsmith
“Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.” PeopleLifeSoulSweetFilledHungerDrivingBitterAppetiteDishesBanquets Author:Matthew Fox