Life Is Quotes - Page 26

• My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.

  Maurice Strong

  People, Needs, Purpose

  "Maurice Strong on climate 'conspiracy', Bilberberg and population control". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Life is wonder, endless, ceaseless wonder. If your energy level is low, then everything is gray, two-dimensional, boring, frustrating, and unhappy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Two

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• Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.

  Billy West

  Causes, Littles, Scared

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you are an incredibly reactive person and you are working on your lowest level, and if you continuously give into your dark side and are angry, and screaming, and breaking things, and you do that for hours and hours on end, you are going to be incredibly exhausted. That's just the way life is.

  Jeremy Piven

  Dark, Giving, Sides

  Source: collider.com

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• People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.

  Tony Benn

  Creativity, Ambition, Order

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• The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.

  John Calvin

  Art, Mean, Use

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)”, p.177, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Spiritual, Mean

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.32, Macmillan

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• Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because we are in the mood. Life is its own raison d'etre.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Needs

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• Pass the popcorn, please. Life is a film, theatre, a theatre of the soul. We play different roles on different stages. At death, we walk offstage. At birth, we walk onstage.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Play

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• The final result of all life is your awareness. Your awareness is existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Finals

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• The trick in life is to find out where you belong. Once you find out where you belong, you will be happy there.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Where You Belong

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• Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Mind

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• There are all these people running all over the planet who don't see what life is for, what their own lives are about, because they don't see psychically. Therefore, they miss most of the beauty of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Running, Buddhism

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• Redefine you. Oh God, life is so beautiful. Don't let it pass you by. Don't miss it. Don't miss it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Buddhism

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• Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Wall, Buddhism

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• Get real. Life is heavy. It's difficult. It's complex...even for the wise.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Wise, Real

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• If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, This Life

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• When your life becomes clear and pure, when your mind is clear and your view of life is unobstructed, then you'll be at peace with yourself. Then you will be happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Views

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• There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Opportunity

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• All life is sacred. Since life is an affirmation of the Creator, I shall live on, even when I am gone. In trailing clouds of glory shall I return to my Creator only to find that I had never really left. I shall walk among the lilies of the field and leave my trail in stardust in the sky.

  John Harricharan

  Grieving, Clouds, Sky

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• Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.

  Jess Lair

  Media, Snow, Life Is Like

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• One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

  Anthony Powell

  Nice, People, Nasty

  1975 Hearing Secret Harmonies, ch.7.

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• Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Life, Adventure, Risk

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• We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if you want to talk about reality, all of that is completely trivial if this life is an island and He's the only pilot with a plane and a flight plan.

  Criss Jami

  Reality, Thinking, Islands

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.33, Criss Jami

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• Spring is on the way; summer is on the way; storms are on the way; wars are on the way; sorrow and happiness are on the way; they are all on the way, they are coming! Everything is on the way! Life is a highway; while we are moving on the way, all else is coming towards us! Devil is on the way; angel is on the way! Stay firm on the way!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Summer, Perseverance, War

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