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Letter "L" » Life
«Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Life,
Mind,
Purpose
| Keywords:
finite, finitude, grasp, infinitude, infinitudes, possibilities, surrounded
«Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.»
«Our lives are repetitious shams-every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things-he's fighting against boredom.»
Author: Matthew Lotti
| About:
Day,
Fighting,
Life,
Mankind
| Keywords:
activities, pepper, peppered, peppers, previous, repetitious, shams, simulacra, simulacrum
«Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.»
Author: Stewart B. Johnson
| About:
Business,
Doing Your Best,
Life
| Keywords:
business life, Business Today, get ahead, outstrip, outstripped, outstripping, outstrips, records
«Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.»
«Our life is made by the death of others.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
(Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor)
| About:
Death and dying,
Life
| Keywords:
Death of
«Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Life,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
constantly, contain, intonation, intonations, Philosophy of, telling
«Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
| About:
Action,
Conscience,
Dreams,
Life
| Keywords:
bring together, brought, composed, composes, connection, greatly, The Connection, unconscious, weaves, weaving, wove, woven
«Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a pretty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.»
«Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.»
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