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Letter "L" » Life
«Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.»
«Thousands stand and chant. Around them in the world, people ride escalators going up and sneak secret glances at the faces coming down. People dangle teabags over hot water in white cups. Cars run silently on the autobahns, streaks of painted light. People sit at desks and stare at office walls. They smell their shirts and drop them in the hamper. People bind themselves into numbered seats and fly across time zones and high cirrus and deep night, knowing there is something they've forgotten to do.»
«Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.»
Author: Henry James
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
human, important, kind, second, seconded, Second Life, the first, The Second, The Third, third, Third Way, three
«Three things are needed for a good life, good friends, good food, and good song.»
«Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts»
«Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Life,
Passion
| Keywords:
governed, longing, overwhelmingly, passions, pity, search, The Search, The Suffering, unbearable
«Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Hope,
Life
| Keywords:
dead
«Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep.»
«Those who have never tried the experiment of a holy life measure the laws of God, not by their intrinsical goodness, but by the reluctancy and opposition which they find in their hearts»
Author: Publilius Syrus
| About:
Experience,
God,
Goodness,
Life
| Keywords:
experiment, intrinsical
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