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“How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.”

Men Reason Whole Passion Courses Interest Our Lives Particular Weak Vices Wavering

Book:The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes

Source: The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight Volumes

“Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.”

Interest Our Lives Losing Glory Strive Enthusiasm Admiration

Author:Phillips Brooks

“... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not; and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.”

Ifs Soul Faces Interest Our Lives Needed Possession Mortals Immortality Immortal Sentiments Nevertheless

Book:The Works of George Santayana

Source: The Works of George Santayana

“By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.”

Want Interest Our Lives Produce Vanity Remedy Filling Filling Up

Book:Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought

Source: Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought

“The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love God simply because doing so will produce many consolations in our life. We must enter a true relationship, were we fall in love not with His benefits, but with Him.”

Should Self Fall Interest Our Lives Produce Benefits Falling In Love God Love Consolation Self Interest Convenience Relationship With God Mercenary True Relationship

Author:Robert Barron

“What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others. I think that's what we long for as writers.”

Thinking Writing Long Interest Ability Our Lives

Author:Nicole Krauss

“Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.”

Life Is Interest Sleep Our Lives Loan

Book:On the Suffering of the World

Source: On the Suffering of the World

“The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all the proof I need that human beings are not mere animals of self-interest. We carry within us a divine spark, and if we chose to recognize it, our lives have dignity, meaning, hope.”

Ifs Needs Giving Humans Self Interest Human Beings Animal Our Lives Sacrifice Divine Willing Dignity Mere Proof Sparks Selfless Self Interest Selfless Love

Book:Seize the Night: A Novel

Source: Seize the Night: A Novel

“We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.”

Doe Stills Suffering Interest Grief Our Lives Foundation Occasions Uncommon

Book:In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's

Source: In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's