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“The story of your life is really the story of the relations between yourself and God.”

Life Inspirational Stories Life Is Positive Relation

Book:Find and Use Your Inner Power

Source: Find and Use Your Inner Power

“Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.”

Life Kind Art Artist Values Order Materials Source Art Is Relation Endless Mediums Organize Selection Arbitrary Symbolic Coherence Intricacy Inclusiveness

Author:Jane Jacobs

“Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.”

Life Soul Play Use Dream Reality Spiritual Life Is Games Our Lives Duty Relation Noble Selfish Senses Flying Trials Worn Toil Insignificant Worn Out Ascension Weavers

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”

Life Inspirational Persons Doe Care Too Much Relationship Relation Humanitarian Indifference Not Afraid Hairstyles Do Not Fear Caring Too Much Sad Relationship Caring About Someone

Book:Book of common sense etiquette

Source: Book of common sense etiquette

“Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.”

Life Reality Life Is Relation Internals Adjustment

Book:The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays

Source: The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays

“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.”

“Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.”

Men Life Children Desire Men And Women Relation Ruined Greatest Love Legitimacy

Author:Bertrand Russell

“I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation of a man and woman who love each other with passion and imagination and tenderness, there is something of inestimable value, to be ignorant of which is a great misfortune to any human being.”

Source: Marriage and Morals

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?”

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it”

Source: Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays

“Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.”

Ifs Life Humans Spirit Order Language Social Society Communication Relation Endure Immortality Sympathy Social Order

Author:George William Russell

“I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.”

Ifs Thinking Life Ideas Whole Age Emotion Study Relation Filled Enjoyed Rising Fifty Retirement New Life Sap Blooming Borrowed Time

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.”

Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

“The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man. In reality, however, the question is what is his attitude to the world and all life that comes within his reach.”

Men World Life Has Beens Reality Deals Attitude Ethics Relation Faults Belive

Book:Albert Schweitzer: Essential Writings

Source: Albert Schweitzer: Essential Writings

“For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.”

Men Life Ends Time Understanding Nature Memories Secret Existence Seeing Seasons Relation Infinite Cycles Infinity Anticipation Timing Incapable Nothingness Concealed Timeliness

Author:Blaise Pascal

“What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.”

Life Food Relation Hunger Zest Zest For Life

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind of combustion which goes on within us. In every one of us there is a living process of combustion going on very similar to that of a candle, and I must try to make that plain to you. For it is not merely true in a poetical sense-the relation of the life of man to a taper; and if you will follow, I think I can make this clear.”

Ifs Thinking Men Life Trying Kind I Can Science Process Interesting Clear Subjects Goes On Relation Candle Very Interesting Combustion

Book:Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology

Source: Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology

“To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare, and incessant carnage: but the more enlarged view, while it regards individuals in their conjoint relations to the general benefit of their own species, and that of other species with which they are associated in the great family of Nature, resolves each apparent case of individual evil, into an example of subserviency to universal good.”

Source: The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology

“The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.”

Life Art Ideas Philosophy Seems Belief History Events Design Bears Elements Tragedy Relation Simplicity Inherent Bizarre Grandeur Bewildered Preconceived Ideas

Book:The Holy Terrors

Source: The Holy Terrors

“It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three minutes, but that we were somehow built in from the beginning.”

Life Firsts Believe Humans Life Is Universe Three Minutes Special Built Relation Accidents Chains Human Life Outcomes Reaching Reaching Back

Book:The first three minutes: a modern view of the origin of the universe

Source: The first three minutes: a modern view of the origin of the universe

“Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of the Earth as the matrix from which life has emerged and on which life depends. Recovering this sense is essential to establishing the framework for mutually enhancing human-Earth relations for the flourishing of life on the planet.”

Life Humans Earth Universe Planets Depends Essentials Relation Fundamentals Framework Urgency Flourishing Recovering Primacy

Book:Evening Thoughts

Source: Evening Thoughts

“Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.”

Life Important School Life Is Humanity Teach Environment Lessons Relation Live Life Never Ending Important Lessons

Author:Clarence Darrow

“I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.”

“The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.”

Life Beauty Politician Relation

Book:Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry

Source: Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry

“Positive thinking is no longer for drifters, dreamers and the perpetually naive. People who think positively see more opportunities, perform better, take more often correct and sound decisions, have more self-confidence, maintain better relations and have more trust placed in them”