Longer Life Quotes

• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

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• It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Humility, Keys

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.181, New Directions Publishing

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• I've always loved theatre because it's so immediate. The challenge of it is that, career wise, it's easier to get traction in the industry if you do film and TV because the audience is larger, and because the work can be seen for a longer period of time. I did solid work in a series of regional and Off-Broadway shows, but the work I did on TV or film will have a longer life with a larger audience (and with services like Netflix). Ultimately, there's something intimate about TV, because the storytelling and the actors come home with the viewer. It can be powerful because of that.

  Steven C. Harper

  Wise, Powerful, Home

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but — mainly — to ourselves.

  Julian Barnes

  Cutting, Challenges, Stories

  "The Sense of an Ending". Book by Julian Barnes, www.penguin.co.uk. 2001.

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• I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic. There's a point after the industrial period where it seems like humanity's finally going to make it right. There were advances in medicine and technology and education. People are going to be able to live longer lives; literacy is starting to spread. It seemed like finally, after centuries of toiling and misery, that humanity was going to get to a better stage. And then what happens is precisely the contrary. Humanity betrays itself.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  War, Epic, Technology

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• By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Cousin, Animal

  "What the AKC Won’t Tell You About Its Top 10 Breeds" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Words have a longer life than deeds.

  Pindar

  Deeds, English Language

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• When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. Think and talk only about the good things that add to your enjoyment of your work and life. If you don't talk about your grievances, you'll be delighted to find them disappearing quickly.

  Thomas Dreier

  Life, Hurt, Thinking

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• Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  Life, Atheism, Should

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas, John Rothchild (1990). “Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River”, p.258, Pineapple Press Inc

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• Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Class, Community, Black

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• Words have longer lives than people.

  Mary E. Pearson

  People

  Mary E. Pearson (2013). “Fox Forever: The Jenna Fox Chronicles”, p.36, Macmillan

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• Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

  Leon Kass

  Self, Long, Generations

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• If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to have a chicken in the pot every Sunday.

  Henry IV of France

  Mean, Sunday, Kingdoms

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• At every point I wished that I was born English. They need to make it colder in here. You could hang meat in this room. But, yeah...I grew up in a very English household. My folks were from Liverpool. I've said this before, but there is nothing more English than an Englishman that no longer lives in England.

  Mike Myers

  Rooms, England, Meat

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices that let us live out our days as we wish. We've seen people making such choices all over America, and we realize what we might have known from the start: For most of us, there really is no place like home.

  Helen Hayes

  Learning, Home, Taught Us

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• If you look at your life and compare your life to that of an evil person, you will find that in most regards both lives are the same. You don't live a longer life or live forever by being virtuous.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Evil, Forever, Looks

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Prayer, Giving, Office

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• We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.

  S. Jay Olshansky

  Engineering, Water, Age

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• More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Payroll Tax, Benefits, Trends

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• Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character.

  Alec Sulkin

  Children, Character, Sound

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2012

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• Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Two, Knowing

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1959). “Creation and fall: a theological interpretation of Genesis 1-3”

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• Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Diversity, Democracy, Republic

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• With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Baby, Couple, Giving

  "Let's give older mothers a break". www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• For me, I look at the faces of my kids and I think about the future that is going to await them and whether they're going to not just have the financial resources to be prepared for the challenge, but whether they're going to have the strength and the stamina to live healthier, longer lives so that they can see their kids and grandkids. That's the legacy I hope to see, and it can have nothing to do with me and I'd be perfectly happy.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Thinking, Challenges

  "Michelle Obama: Team Effort Needed to Halt Childhood Obesity". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. February 8, 2010.

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• Humility is an attribute of godliness possessed by true Saints. It is easy to understand why a proud man fails. He is content to rely upon himself only. This is evident in those who seek social position or who push others aside to gain position in fields of business, government, education, sports, or other endeavors. Our genuine concern should be for the success of others. The proud man shuts himself off from God, and when he does he no longer lives in the light.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Sports, Humility, Men

  Howard W. Hunter (1994). “That We Might Have Joy”, Shadow Mountain

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