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Life is a mission, not a career.
Stephen CoveyRead
The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator.
Pope Paul ViRead
The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in -telephonic, technological and relational -to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.
Jean BaudrillardRead
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.
John LennonRead
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Marie CurieRead
Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail?
Li BaiRead
It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on which man knows himself to be dependent, powers whose favors he needs, powers whose wrath he fears. Myths express the knowledge that man is not master of the world and his life, that the world within which he lives is full of riddles and mysteries and that human life also is full of riddles and mysteries.
Rudolf BultmannRead
When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.
C. S. LewisRead
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
Miguel De UnamunoRead
Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.
Maya AngelouRead
All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.
Mavis GallantRead
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.
George SandRead
The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over the keys of our green our grey or pink blue manual typewriter maybe a darker stone cold thoritative selectric with its orgasmic expectant hum and us popping pills and laughing over what you or I just wrote, wondering if that line means insult or sex. Or both. Usually both.
Eileen MylesRead
Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
Eugene O'NeillRead
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph AddisonRead
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.
Henri NouwenRead
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
Henri NouwenRead
I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that.
Tim CookRead
I personally admire Steve Jobs not most for what he did, or what he said, but for what he stood for. The largest lesson I learned from Steve was that the joy in life is in the journey, and I saw him live this every day.
Tim CookRead
A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
Joyce Carol OatesRead
To be actively pro-life is to contribute to the renewal of society through the promotion of the common good. It is impossible to further the common good without acknowledging and defending the right to life, upon which all the other inalienable rights of individuals are founded and from which they develop.
Pope John Paul IiRead

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