Quotes with life-form

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  • Candace Bushnell The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    French Christian mystic, author (1881 - 1955)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Antisthenes The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
    Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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  • Bertrand Russell The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Adrienne Rich The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Woodrow Wilson The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Aldous Huxley The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Hepworth The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.
    Source: A Pictorial Biography
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Eric Hoffer The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Billy Collins The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times' obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • William Shakespeare The object of art is to give life a shape.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Arthur Erickson The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Cyril Connolly The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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