Life Is Quotes - Page 39

• A life is not meant to be half lived. It is meant to be fully, wholly embraced. If you want to make a change in the world you have to be strong. You have to take chances. You have to persevere. Sometimes you must blindly go in a direction that you may be unsure of, but one that you have faith will lead you to the right place.

  Esther Earl

  Strong, Half, World

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• The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.

  Edith Hamilton

  Fullness Of Life, Victory, Hazards

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding.

  Ergun Caner

  Unexamined Life, Life Is Not Worth Living, Worth Living

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• Every decision in your life is controlled by your beliefs and values. You may not realize it, but you have the power to choose what you believe about your life, people, money and health. You can either choose beliefs that limit you, or beliefs that empower you to move toward success. Your beliefs energize you to create the world you want to live in right now. The key is to be aware of them because what you value determines what you focus on.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Moving, Keys

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Nov 17, 2016

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• Mistaken
  regard for what are believed to be divine laws and a sentimental belief in the sanctity of human
  life tend to prevent both the elimination of defective infants and the sterilization of such adults as
  are themselves of no value to the community. The laws of nature require the obliteration of the
  unfit and human life is valuable only when it is of use to the community or race.

  Madison Grant

  Law, Race, Community

  Madison Grant (1922). “The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History”

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• The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.

  Michelle Shocked

  Long, Secret, Long Life

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• Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.

  LZ Granderson

  Reading, Book, Differences

  "Kid, you are not special" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. June 12, 2012.

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• It is imperative that we find that vital element that brings us alive... the true vitality that waits beneath all occupations for us to tap into, if we can discover what we love. If you feel energy and excitement and a sense that life is happening for the first time, you are probably near your God-given nature. Joy in what we do is not an added feature; it is a sign of deep health.

  Mark Nepo

  Joy, Waiting, Energy

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• Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: 'Forgive us our debts,' because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Struggle, Fighting

  "'Contra Julianum' ('Against Julian')". Book by Augustine. Book II, Chapter 8, 22,

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• Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event can we say: this was our own choosing. We happen upon careers, necessity pushing, blind inclination pulling. If we stop to think we are amazed that we should be what we are.

  Walter Lippmann

  Life, Drama, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.147, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Prejudice, Conscious

  Walter Lippmann (2017). “Public Persons”, p.101, Routledge

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• It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it.

  Walter Lippmann

  War, Tests, Value Of Life

  Walter Lippmann “Force and Ideas: The Early Writings”, Transaction Publishers

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• Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.

  George Eliot

  Giving Up, Fate, Thinking

  1860 The Mill on the Floss, bk.5, ch.1.

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• When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

  George Eliot

  Life, Clouds, Imagination

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.259

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• Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?

  George Eliot

  Believe, Men, Fabric

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.451, Penguin

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• We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Dream, Echoes

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.88

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• There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Doe

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Amusing

  Henry Ward Beecher, Eleanor Kirk (1887). “Beecher as a Humorist: Selections from the Published Works of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• Life is a plant that grows out of death.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Plant, Grows

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Taken, Woven

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Way

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.10

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• Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Pain, Men

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.74, Transaction Publishers

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• Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

  Cesare Pavese

  Destiny, Fundamentals, Levels

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950”, New York : Walker

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• A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment of its institutions through interaction of the different forms of associated life is in so far democratic. Such a society must have a type of education which gives individuals a personal interest in social relationships and control, and the habits of mind which secure social changes without introducing disorder.

  John Dewey

  Giving, Mind, Different

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.102, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.

  Allan Bloom

  Important, Way, Recognition

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Western Civ," p. 18, 1990.

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