Interest In Life Quotes - Page 2

• Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Birthday, Children, Turning 50

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• Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and to guide his life with understanding. Through Science he will be freed from the fetters of superstition; through faith in Science he will acquire a new and enduring delight in the exercise of his capacities; he will gain a zest and interest in life such as the present phase of culture fails to supply.

  Ray Lankester

  Faith, Believe, Science

  "The Advancement of Science: Occasional Essays & Addresses". Book by Ray Lankester, p. 108-9, "Biology and the State", 1890.

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• All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

  Thomas Mann

  Expression, Disease And Death, Communicable Diseases

  'The Magic Mountain' (1924) ch. 6, sect. 7

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• Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

  Henry Miller

  Music, Beauty, Beautiful

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• I must frankly admit that... I should probably lose all interest in life and would rather not be a German at all. But since, thank the Lord, this cannot be done, we have no need to be surprised that the health, unspoiled people avoid 'bourgeois mass meetings' as the devil holy water.

  Adolf Hitler

  People, Water, Devil

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Develop an Interest in Life as you see it.

  Henry Miller

  Passion, Beautiful Soul, English Literature

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• I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

  Enzo Ferrari

  Car, Racing, Facts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Beatties were always arguing, it gave them an interest in life.

  Elspeth Huxley

  Always Arguing, Beatty, Arguing

  Elspeth Huxley (2011). “The Mottled Lizard”, p.54, Random House

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• Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

  Billy Graham

  Believe, Years, People

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• any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense

  John Wilmot

  Expenses, Libertine, Experiments

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• We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Eye, Looks, Ears

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2006). “Gifts”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Life, Appreciation, Gratitude

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