Useful Life Quotes - Page 2

• I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one.

  Ryan Shawcross

  Happy Life, Feels

  Obituary in The Independent, July 11, 2003.

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• Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments and obligations and responsibilities that are given habitually and lovingly are the blessings that win and preserve the heart and bring comfort to one's self as we as to others. This is the ministry of service performed by every useful life.

  John Templeton

  Life, Kindness, Heart

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• I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again.

  George Carlin

  Sorry, Two, Comedian

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• There will be many fine and wonderful men and women of all races and creeds-and of no religious creeds at all-who will lead decent and useful lives.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Religious, Men, Race

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• We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.

  Paul Tillich

  Men, People, Evil

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• A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing, it strikes a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . . educational superiority.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Children, Educational, Responsibility

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• One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that at one time half of all the beds in our hospitals were reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who had collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives — if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: “Have no anxiety about the morrow”; or the words of Sir William Osler: "Live in day-tight compartments."

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Crush, Jesus

  "How to stop worrying & start living".

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• Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

  Tryon Edwards

  Character, Mind, Dry

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.651, Ravenio Books

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• It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.

  Ernest A. Fitzgerald

  Happiness, Happy, Peace

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• I am old, and death inevitably approaches. But both birth and death are beyond the will of a human being. They are not my domain. I do not think about it. Yoga has taught me to think of only working to live a useful life...I will never stop learning, and it have tried to share some lessons with you. I do pray that my ending will be your beginning. The great rewards and the countless blessings of a life spent following the Inward Journey await you.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Thinking, Blessing

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• As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

  Sylvia Earle

  Attitude, Children, Ocean

  "Earth Has a Heart — It’s Blue" by Sylvia Earle, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2010.

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• Draw nigh to God, so that you may dread the grave as little as your bed. Draw nigh to God, that you may live a happy and useful life. Drawing nigh to God is the most concentrated energy of the soul. Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.

  D. A. Carson

  Prayer, Blessing, Drawing

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• To give up faith in Christ is to give up faith in humanity; to believe in Christ is to believe in the redeption and final glorification of men; and this faith is the best inspiration to a holy and useful life for the good of our race of the glory of God.

  Philip Schaff

  Faith, Giving Up, Believe

  Philip Schaff (1882). “The Person of Christ: The Perfection of His Humanity Viewed as a Proof of His Divinity”

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• To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

  John Forbes Nash

  People, Wish, Insane

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