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Letter "L" » Life
«The less routine the more life.»
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
(Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
less, routine, routines, The Less
«The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.»
«The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.»
«The life of a religious might be compared to the building of a cathedral once a firm foundation has been laid, the building rises slowly.»
Author: Margaret Wyvill Ecclesine
| About:
Life,
Religion
| Keywords:
building, cathedral, compared, firm, foundation, laid, rises, slowly, The Building, The Cathedral
«The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.»
Author: Pierre de Coubertin
(Educator)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
combat, vanquish, vanquished, vanquishes
«The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.»
Author: Ruth Benedict
| About:
Community,
History,
Life
| Keywords:
accommodation, accommodations, first and foremost, foremost, handed-down, handed, History of the, life history, patterns, standards, traditionally
«The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care»
Author: Sir Philip Sidney
(Statesman)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
health care, ingredients, open air, temperance
«The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.»
«The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Charity,
Life,
Social service
| Keywords:
active, dreaming, seeing, visions
«The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Charm,
Life
| Keywords:
actualization, horror, real life, recurrent
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