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“Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession and sowed the seeds for its own revision? If Simpson had reached final truth, he either would have been a priest or would have chosen a dull profession. The history of life cannot be a dull profession.”

Ifs Men Life Has Beens States Science Pay Higher Finals Seeds Profession Chosen Dull Priests Tribute Revision History Of Life

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.”

Knows Life Inspirational Use Motivational Success Practice Positive Higher

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.”

Life Looks Mean Seems Certain Secret Higher Claims Cherish Satisfying Nurse Vulgar Commonplace

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.”

Men Life Heart Kind Higher Intellect Intimate Communion Nature Of Man Communion With God God Life

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.”

Life Self Fear Higher Delight This Life Torture Torment Ascent

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.”

Life Higher Yield

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“When there is pain, the animal instinct is 'fight or flight' (i.e., to either strike back or run away) - reflect instead. When you can calm yourself down, thinking about the dilemma that is causing you pain will bring you to a higher level and enlighten you, leading to progress.”

“If you want to really know higher dimensions of life, there needs to be a constant sense of peacefulness and joyfulness within you”

Ifs Knows Want Life Needs Higher Constant Dimensions Within You Peacefulness Joyfulness

Author:Jaggi Vasudev

“Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.”

“Life has a higher end, than to be amused”

Life Ends Inspire Higher Life Changing Live By Amused

Book:An Address on Temperance, etc

Source: An Address on Temperance, etc