Long Life Quotes - Page 14

• We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Spiritual, Long

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• Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided self: only as we are in communion with ourselves can we find community with others. Community is an outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace, the flowing of personal identity and integrity into the world of relationships.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Integrity, Self, Roots

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.92, John Wiley & Sons

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• Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.

  Douglas Coupland

  Winter, Ice, Long

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• It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something to somebody, to have a life that matters, and God’s saying ‘You matter! I didn’t make anyone else like you. You’re not a reprint or a lithograph. You’re a one-of-a-kind, original creation of God.

  Louie Giglio

  Struggle, Heart, Matter

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• This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Selfish, Nice, Reading

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• The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an acolyte to his doctor. He learns to depend on the physician in sickness and in health. He turns into a life-long patient.

  Ivan Illich

  Doctors, Long, Physicians

  Medical Nemesis

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• Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!

  Victor Hugo

  Strong, Men, Blood

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.942, Delphi Classics

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• I found that I wanted to be best friends with almost all the women I interviewed because they had been through something. They were closing in on the circle of their journey and they had a kind of wisdom that comes from their long life.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Journey, Circles

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• To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14 'what do you want to do when you grow up?' I said I wanted to be an architect. After 50 years I am still learning all what that means. Working together with so many people has been enormously gratifying. Being an architect means being a member of a fantastic team.

  Richard Meier

  Dream, Growing Up, Team

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• Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.

  Laini Taylor

  Long, Misery, Life Is

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, "Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked.

  Molly Ivins

  Fashion, Reading, Clothes

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• No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Learning

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Nov 14, 2013

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• One doth but break-fast here, another dine; he that lives longest does but suppe; we must all goe to bed in another World.

  Joseph Henshaw

  Life, Bed, Doe

  "Horæ Subcessivæ" by Joseph Henshaw, p. 80, 1631.

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• Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

  Publilius Syrus

  Life, Long, Seems

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 124, 1856.

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• It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

  Cleveland Abbe

  Long, Youth, Should

  Alfred Goldsborough Mayer, Silas Weir Mitchell, Cleveland Abbe, Edward Leamington Nichols, Edwin Herbert Hall (1919). “Biographical Memoir of Theodore Nicholas Gill, 1837-1914: 1913”

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• What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Long, Funeral, Age

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• Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Thinking, Dust

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Prescription for Life-long Happiness: Purpose enough for satisfaction; Work enough for sustenance; Sanity enough to know when to play and rest; Wealth enough for basic needs; Affection enough to like many and love a few; Self-respect enough to love yourself; Charity enough to give to others in need; Courage enough to face difficulties; Creativity enough to solve problems; Humor enough to laugh at will; Hope enough to expect an interesting tomorrow; Gratitude enough to appreciate what you have; Health enough to enjoy life for all its worth.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Love You

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• Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.

  Charles Kingsley

  Self, Long, Miracle

  Charles Kingsley, Frederick Denison Maurice (1848). “The Saint's Tragedy; Or the True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary, Landgravine of Thuringia: Saint of the Romish Calendar. With a Preface by Professor Maurice”, p.126

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• Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She cancelled all her engauzements. She climbed over the bannistars; she gave a childy cloudy cry: Nuee! Nuee! A lightdress fluttered. She was gone. And into the river that had been a stream . . . there fell a tear, a singult tear, the loveliest of all tears . . . for it was a leaptear. But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh! I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!

  James Joyce

  Silly, Heart, Rivers

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• I've fallen in love maybe five times in my life. But it's a long life. I do get crushes. Whether it's men or women or babies.

  Joan Collins

  Crush, Baby, Men

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• a sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Long, News, Pieces

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.43, Macmillan

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• Red hair is my life long sorrow.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Hair, Long, Sorrow

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• I do hope some of my work has a long lifetime. A piece that works out well this year may work out very well in twenty years' time as well, but I'm very much thinking about what's the right piece now, at this moment.

  Judith Weir

  Thinking, Years, Long

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• We hanker to go on, even in the face of plain evidence that long, long lives are not necessarily pleasurable in the kind of society we have arranged thus far. We will be lucky if we can postpone the search for new technologies for a while, until we have discovered some satisfactory things to do with the extra time.

  Lewis Thomas

  Technology, Extra Time, Long

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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