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“It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.”

Life Light Individual Darkness Struggle

Author:Dylan Thomas

“Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.”

Life Done Life Is Individual Moving Forward Operations Individual Life

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it ceaselessly gives birth to living individuals.”

Life Giving Character Form Universe Individual Birth Variety Succession

Book:Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

Source: Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

“Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.”

Life Children Seems Individual Effort Education Learning Produce Educational Everlasting Schooling Schooled Antagonism School Education

Book:Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature

Source: Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature

“The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.”

Life Individual Solitude Mass Victim Suggestions

Book:Einstein on Peace

Source: Einstein on Peace

“people who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.”

People Knows Life Wells Reality Seems Individual Levels Known Greatness Well Known Insignificant Individual Life

Book:The Society of the Spectacle

Source: The Society of the Spectacle

“Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.”

Men World Life Ideas Death Dies Individual Nature He Man Friends Climate Soil Vegetation

Book:The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937

Source: The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937

“Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.”

Life Individual Accepting Demand Deception Contemplating Deceiving

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“We've got to be able to distinguish between dangerous individuals who need to be incapacitated and incarcerated versus young people who are in an environment in which they are adapting, but if given different opportunities, a different vision of life, could be thriving the way we are. That's what strikes me. There but for the grace of God. And that, I think, is something that we all have to think about.”

People Ifs Thinking Life Needs Different Able Young Opportunity Individual Given Vision Grace Dangerous Strikes Versus Grace Of God Vision Of Life

Author:Barack Obama

“Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life.”

Life Should Wells Individual Social Calamity Social Life Thorough Cleansing

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.”

Life Individual Liberty Essentials Interdependence Individual Liberty

Book:Co-operation

Source: Co-operation

“The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.”

World Love Life Giving Death Individual Painting Drinking Oneself Improvement Painter Live Life Good Life Individual Life Live Life Happy

Author:Odd Nerdrum