Life Quotes · Page 24

Reflect on the deeper meaning of existence with profound life quotes from philosophers, poets, and everyday wisdom. These quotes help you navigate the beautiful complexity of living.

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“If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what…”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Does this sound dismal? It isn't. It's the most wonderful life on earth. Or so I feel.”

— E. E. Cummings

“true lovers in each happening of their hearts live longer than all which and every who”

— E. E. Cummings

“This passion for form is a way of trying to find and constitute meaning in life. And this is what genuine creativity is.”

— Rollo May

“In a word, human life is more governed by fortune than by reason; is to be regarded more as a dull pastime than as a serious occupation; and is more influenced by particular…”

— David Hume

“It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving…”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“That great disaster is a symbol to us to remember the big things of life and to forget the small things. We have thought too much of the small things.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“We have achieved political freedom but our revolution is not yet complete and is still in progress, for political freedom without the assurance of the right to live and to pursue…”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husks.”

— George MacDonald

“Life is all a variorum, We regard not how it goes; Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose.”

— Robert Burns

“A good life is a main argument.”

— Ben Jonson

“If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.”

— Ben Jonson

“Angel of life! thy glittering wings explore Earth's loneliest bounds, and Ocean's wildest shore.”

— Thomas Campbell

“The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is…”

— Louis Pasteur

“God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our…”

— Louis Pasteur

“Of course, this entire fabric of Indian life stands solidly on faith, that is to say, on a slender and emotional hypothesis.”

— Romain Rolland

“The matching of opposites produces the true rhythm of life.”

— Romain Rolland

“May life herself speak! However inadequate I may be in listening to her, and in repeating her words, I shall try to record them, even if they contradict my most secret desires.”

— Romain Rolland

“And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it.”

— Italo Calvino

“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together.”

— Italo Calvino

“We must have passed through life very unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.”

— Frederick William Faber

“If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.”

— Frederick William Faber

“I have no cares, O blessed Will! For all my cares are Thine; I live in triumph, Lord! for Thou Hast made Thy triumphs mine.”

— Frederick William Faber

“Ah, with the Grape my fading Life provide, And wash the Body whence the Life has died, And lay me, shrouded in the living Leaf, By some not unfrequented Garden-side.”

— Omar Khayyam

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