The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
– The Divine Pymander
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.
– Felix Adler
The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
The university's characteristic state may be summarized by the words of the lady who said, I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
– Hanna Holborn Gray
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song
– John Burroughs
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
– John Burroughs, Birds and Poets, 1887
The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.
– Plutarch
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
– Horace Walpole
The will to live, gives you the strength to surpass your own to achieve life
– An9e7 X
The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life.
– John Macy
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
– Frances Willard
The world of the commodity is a world updside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
– Raoul Vaneigem
The world's a bubble and the life of man Less than a span.
– Francis Bacon
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak.
– Eric Ambler
There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.
– Carl Van Vechten
There are but two failures in life.1. Not learning from mistakes2. Not making more mistakes
– Brandon A. Trean
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.
– Herman Melville
There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will.
– Grenville Kleiser
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.
– Søren Kierkegaard
There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.
– Joseph Addison
There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he wants to build things, like dams, and maybe chew down some trees. In the third stage, he feels trapped, and then 'skinned.'' I'm not sure what the fourth stage is.
– Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.
– Kathleen Norris
