Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Ralph Waldo Emersonġ7 It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. Jean Websterġ6 When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit. Wellsġ5 It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. Walter Savage Landorġ4 I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. Chestertonġ3 Sculpture and painting are moments of life poetry is life itself. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive. August Strindbergġ2 The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me. Benjamin Franklinġ1 People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. Mark Twainġ0 A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family. Anton Chekhovĩ Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. Cass GilbertĨ The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected. Guglielmo Marconiħ To become an Architect in the right sense of the word means that a man shall give his life to it and nothing else, and shall study the work he has to do with enthusiastic interest in every detail pertaining to it, and content himself with nothing less than complete success.
This would be truly frightening were it not for faith. The inability of science to solve it is absolute.
There is no doubt that from the time humanity began to think it has occupied itself with the problem of its origin and its future which undoubtedly is the problem of life. Wilhelm ReichĦ The mystery of life is certainly the most persistent problem ever placed before the thought of man.
Camille Claudelĥ How, then,' I hear you ask, 'shall I attain my end, whether it be Christian love, socialism, or American democracy?' Your Christian love and your socialism and your American democracy are what you do each day, your manner of thinking each hour, of embracing your life companion and loving your child they are your attitude of social responsibility towards your work, and your determination not to become like the crushers of life you so hate. Omar KhayyamĤ I have been back in Paris for two weeks. O love, there is no other life - but here. Men of hereafters talk and future lives,. Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here Herbert Crolyģ Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here Not until his personal action is dictated by disinterested motives can there be any such harmony between private and public interests. In the complete democracy a man must in some way be made to serve the nation in the very act of contributing to his own individual fulfillment. They can be made permanently unselfish only by being helped to become disinterested in their individual purposes. Charles KetteringĢ The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or even by grave and manifest public need. 1 I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it's going to be.
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