Quotes with life-element

Quotes 3101 till 3120 of 4295.

  • Eliza Farnham The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
    Eliza Farnham
    American novelist, feminist and abolitionist (1815 - 1864)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • John W. Gardner The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Alan Cranston The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.
    Alan Cranston
    American politician and journalist (1914 - 2000)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Anna Howard Shaw The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Albert Einstein The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • John Keats The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Glenda Jackson The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry I think of my sex life. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life.
    Glenda Jackson
    British actress and politician (1936 - 2023)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Charles A. Lindbergh The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
    Charles A. Lindbergh
    American aviator and inventor
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  • Arthur Middleton The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Ben Stein The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • William Butler Yeats The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Virginia Woolf The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Candace Bushnell The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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