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“I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.”

Mean Stories Life Is Accepting Grateful Be Grateful

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration”

“The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.”

Mean Art Use Life Is Common Worthy Invention Faculty Convenience Despised Gift From God Life Is A Gift Commendation

Book:John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)

Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)

“I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that.”

World Mean Christian Spiritual Life Is Purpose Christ Seeing Relation Believer Invisible Redemption Meaning Of Life Visible Vague Orthodoxy Standpoint Disbelievers

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.”

People Mean Real Sometimes Action Spiritual Life Is Universe Courses Understanding Connected Access Best Things Right Thing Spiritual Life Doing Good Doing The Right Thing

Author:Al Franken

“Reincarnation doesn't simply mean that at the end of this life you will move on to another life in another body, it means that the spirit of life is continually renewing itself and moving to a higher level.”

Mean Ends Body Moving Life Is Spirit Levels Higher This Life Reincarnation Higher Level Another Life Spirit Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.”

“If you have eternal life at all, it simply means that you have the Son, Jesus Christ NOW! Eternal life is not a peculiar feeling inside! It is not your ultimate destination, to which you will go when you are dead. If you are born again, eternal life is that quality of life that you possess right now, at this very moment, in your own physical body, with your own two feet on the ground, and in the world TODAY! And where does this life come from? Of Him! He is that life! So if you have eternal life, it means that you have Somebody, Jesus Christ, and the life that you possess is of Him.”

“I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella. That’s one of my favorite lines of all time. It’s from a movie called Almost Famous. I think what it means is that life is going to throw all kinds of stuff at you, good and bad. But all you can do is get out there and try to stay dry.”

Thinking Men Trying Kind Mean Life Is Stuff Can Do Lines My Favorite All Kinds All Time Dry Good And Bad Rainy Umbrella Rainy Day

Author:Valerie Thomas

“Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When they speak of being "in Christ" or of Christ being "in them", this is not simply a way of saying that they are thinking about Christ or copying Him. They mean that Christ is actually operating through them; that the whole mass of Christians are the physical organism through which Christ acts--that we are His fingers and muscles, the cells of His body.”

Thinking Way Mean Whole Body Christian Life Is Speak Christ Moral Clear Mass Let Me Fingers Cells Muscles Organisms Copying

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The exponential rewards you receive as a reaction to the service that you give is phenomenal. If everybody understood that you get back in spades what you put in in terms of service, not only will everybody’s lives be more fulfilling – I mean can you imagine a society look like that? I’m Bill Courtney and I share hope.”

Ifs Giving Looks Mean Life Is Term Imagine Share Understood Bills Rewards Reactions Get Back Fulfilling Phenomenal Spades Courtney

Author:Bill Courtney

“It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.”

Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays

“Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.”

Mean Doe Ends Life Is Knowing Desperate Midst Unbearable Unrequited

Book:The Dog Stars

Source: The Dog Stars

“Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all costs be overcome. Nihilism in its most palpable sense means that the bourgeois has won, that the future, all foreseeable futures, belong to him, that all heights above him and all depths beneath him are illusory and that life is not worth living on these terms.”

“Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from the soul rather than the ego. The soul is out of space and time and hence always available, an ever-present potential of our being. It is up to each of us to celebrate and to actualize our being and to turn each meal, conversation, outfit, letter, and so on, into art. Every mundane activity is an opportunity for full authentic self-expression. The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater.”

“Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.”

Mean Littles Life Is Pay Demand Disease Army Add Soldier Dear Articles Soap Allowance Continental Dirtiness

Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

“Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?”

May Mean Art Reality Life Is Understood Very Good Journalism Realism Good Journalism

Book:The Sherwood Anderson reader

Source: The Sherwood Anderson reader