Human Life Quotes - Page 40

• All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.

  Truman Capote

  Summer, Spring, Dark

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• Seven years ago when I came, I said to you that I'll teach you how to be healthy, happy and holy and we will build a family which shall not have any facet of human life as an orphan; to build an exclusive family in which there is no facet of our life which is an orphan. 'In God we trust,' We are the trust of God and let us live it.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Years

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• Our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technical civilization makes up particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them [scientists] agree, the end of human life on earth is assured.

  Werner Herzog

  Community, Environmental, Climate

  "Encounters at the End of the World". www.imdb.com. July 18, 2008.

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• We will pay for this [climate change] one way or another. We will pay to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions today and we'll have to take an enormous hit of some kind. Or we will pay the price later in military terms. And that will involve human lives. There will be a human toll. There is no way out of this that does not have real costs attached to it.

  Anthony Zinni

  Military, Real, Pay The Price

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• Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.

  Reggie Watts

  Technology, Mergers, Fascination

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• Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to organize and exploit distractions, to make of them, because of their economic importance, the core and vital center of human life, to idealize them as the highest manifestations of mental activity. Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Irrelevance, Origin Of Life

  Aldous Huxley (1992). “Huxley and God: essays”, Harpercollins

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• We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

  Arthur Peacocke

  Origin Of Life, Cosmos, Generations

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• Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Priceless, Life Is, Human Condition

  Night Flight ch. 14 (1931)

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• The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self.

  Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

  Happiness, Self, Life Is

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• The clearest evidence that we are living beyond environmental means is the threat of dangerous climate change. The scale of this threat, to human life and to the natural resources and assets on which it depends, for everything from oxygen and clean water to healthy soils and flood defence, means that this simply must be our top priority

  David Miliband

  Mean, Oxygen, Water

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• We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging untested chemicals into the air, ground, and water to alter and harm, to whatever degree, human life and wildlife? As a conservative, I do abhor it.

  Wendell Berry

  Air, Water, Degrees

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• Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Suffering, Causes, Disillusioned

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.442, Discovery House

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• Only photography has been able to divide human life
  into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.

  Eadweard Muybridge

  Life, Photography, Art

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• Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

  Jim Costa

  Agriculture, Water, Essentials

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• Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.

  Iris Murdoch

  Next, Wonder, Demon

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.412, Penguin

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• All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.

  Dean Koontz

  Heart, Fate, Hands

  Dean Koontz (2007). “From the Corner of His Eye: A Novel”, p.561, Bantam

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• Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Party, Men, Prison

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• Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Gestation Period, Ideas

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.248, Souvenir Press

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• The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.

  Alexander Pope

  Vanity, Rivers, Life Is Like

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.123

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• A human life has seasons much as the earth has seasons, each time with its own particular beauty and power. And gift. By focusing on springtime and summer, we have turned the natural process of life into a process of loss rather than a process of celebration and appreciation. Life is neither linear nor stagnant. It is movement from mystery to mystery. Just as a year includes autumn and winter, life includes death, not as an opposite but as an integral part of the way life is made.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Death, Summer, Appreciation

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.82, Penguin

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• Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

  Nathan Deal

  Philosophy, Aggravation, People

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• The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form- an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

  Carl Jung

  Shoes, Decision, Recipes

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.62, Psychology Press

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• The only way we can guarantee our continued survival on earth is to recognise the importance of other non human life forms and stop pretending we're on top of some pyramid of domination over other beings.

  Rod Coronado

  Pyramids, Survival, Guarantees

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• If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle . . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.

  Oswald Chambers

  Religious, Jesus, Redemption

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• Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

  Nathan Deal

  Advancement, Should, Aim

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