Human Life Quotes - Page 8

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

  Thomas S. Monson

  Human Nature, Life And Change, Humans

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• Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for the world. The work of the artist is an expression of hope - it is homage to the value of human life, and it is vital to society. Art is a sacred expression of human creativity that shares the same ontological ground as all human work. Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

  Michael Gungor

  Art, Creativity, Leisure Activities

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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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• 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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• 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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• At some point I realized that you don't get a full human life if you try to cut off one end of it, that you need to agree to the entire experience, to the full spectrum of what happens.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Cutting, Trying, Needs

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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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• An evangelizing community gets involved in word and deed in people’s daily lives; it bridges distances, it is willing to abase itself if necessary, and it embraces human life, touching the suffering flesh of Christ in others

  Pope Francis

  Distance, Bridges, People

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.12, BookBaby

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• In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Earth, Born

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.467, Lulu.com

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• Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man and his natural potential are the root of the entire human domain. The great task of all philosophizing is to become competent to interpret and steer the potential developmental forces in human natures and in the human condition, both of which are prodigiously fatalistic.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Men, Civilization

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• We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Golf, Trying, Principles

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p.14), 1991.

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• To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Human Nature, Irrational, Humans

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “The Life Divine: Art of living”, p.774, editionNEXT.com

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• What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Joy, Sorrow

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• In its heart, America knew that racial segregation was wrong. In its heart, America knows that human life begins before birth.

  F. LaGard Smith

  Heart, America, Birth

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• Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.

  Steven Morrissey

  Determination, Animal, Order

  "Autobiography" by Steven Morrissey, London: Penguin Classics, 2013.

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• As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity.

  Robert Montgomery

  Death, Anchors, Sea

  Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.15

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• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay, the idea of cutting grass in the autumn and storing it in large enough quantities to keep horses and cows alive through the winter. All we know is that the technology of hay was unknown to the Roman Empire but was known to every village of medieval Europe. Like many other crucially important technologies, hay emerged anonymously during the so-called Dark Ages.

  Freeman Dyson

  Horse, Dark, Winter

  "Infinite in All Directions" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 8, (p. 135), 1988.

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• When I was shooting the film I did not see the story as an everyday tale or a social one. To a great extent, the film is a mythological look on human life. This is probably what I would like the audience to keep in mind before they enter the screening room.

  Andrey Zvyagintsev

  Everyday, Mind, Looks

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• Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

  Horace

  Sports, Fortune, Humans

  Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Imperfection, Doe, Needs

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• The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Architecture, Melancholy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.382, Harvard University Press

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• If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Retirement, Humble, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  People, Evil, Giving

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• Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at every step. In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust, they keep themselves from the world and are afraid ever to move. Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mother, Children, Moving

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali”

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• But if there has been on this earth no real, perfect human life, no love that never cooled, no faith that never failed, which may shine as a loadstar across the darkness of our experience, a light to light amidst all convictions of our own meanness and all suspicions of other's littleness, why, we may have a religion, but we have not a Christianity. For if we lose Him as a Brother, we cannot feel Him as a Saviour.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Brother, Real, Light

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.318

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