Human Life Quotes - Page 5

• One of the greatest things in human life is the ability to make plans. Even if they never come true-the joy of anticipating is irrevocably yours. That way one can live many more than just one life.

  Maria von Trapp

  Joy, Way, Life Is

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• Only when we accept and forgive all that is or has been the good, the bad, and the ugly of our human lives can we get off the guilt trip and back into the flow. That means we must love our humanness and all of our failings; we must accept, learn from, and yes, even love our mistakes.

  Sonia Choquette

  Mistake, Mean, Forgiving

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• I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God.

  Pope John Paul II

  World, Sacred, Life Is

  Pope John Paul II (1979). “U.S.A.--the Message of Justice, Peace, and Love: Pastoral Visit of Pope John Paul II, October 1-7, 1979”

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• I extend my appreciation to the associations, movements and all those who defend human life.

  Pope Francis

  Appreciation, Movement, Association

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• Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Laughing, Tragedy

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.21, Knopf

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• Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life and action and concerns everybody and everything. It is the pith of civilization and of man's human existence.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Men, Civilization

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Human life, the person is no longer perceived as a primary value to be respected and protected, especially if poor or disabled, if not yet useful - such as the unborn child - or no longer needed - such as the elderly.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Elderly, Unborn Child

  "Pope Francis, one year later -- calling us to a deeper faith" By Maureen M. Ferguson, www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2014.

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• There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Reality, Men

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• We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

  J. I. Packer

  Humans, Commandments

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is. We will set up success in Christian work as the aim; the aim is to manifest the glory of God in human life, to live the life hid with Christ in God in human conditions. Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Live Life, Tests

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.652, Discovery House

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• OCTOBER BABY is a profoundly beautiful story and a powerful testament to the importance of every human life.

  Marjorie Dannenfelser

  Beautiful, Baby, Powerful

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• The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which we were made, is the Spiritual Marriage. This is not socially relative; it is eternal. And in it, the soul is spiritually impregnated by God, not vice versa. That is the ultimate reason why God must always be he to us, never she. Religion is essentially heterosexual and therefore fruitful.

  Peter Kreeft

  God, Spiritual, Soul

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• What makes human life - which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

  Steve Hagen

  Fleeting, Lasts, Return

  Steve Hagen (2009). “Buddhism Is Not What You Think: Finding Freedom Beyond Beliefs”, p.227, Zondervan

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• Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Quality, Method, Dharma

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• True love can alter human lives and change human nature.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Human Nature, Life And Change, Humans

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• Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

  John Stuart Mill

  Destiny, Men, Purpose

  John Stuart Mill (1865). “On Liberty”, p.11

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• The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation's spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Government, Perfect

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• I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

  Vernor Vinge

  Change, Paper, Earth

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• Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Children, Pain

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.3, Routledge

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• Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Economic, Ends

  Ludwig Von Mises (2008). “Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses”

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• Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Body, Thirst, Humans

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.119, Advaita Ashrama

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• Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.

  M. C. Escher

  Education, Art, Jigsaw Puzzles

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• For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean.  As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it.  That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge.  When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water.  We call this the moment of death.  That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.

  Bill Viola

  Ocean, Moving, Water

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• In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment.

  Julia Cameron

  Commitment, Soul, Honor

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.261, Souvenir Press

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• For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Issues, Rights

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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