Signs Of Life Quotes

• There is only one group of people who do not have problems, and they are all dead. Problems are a sign of life, so the more problems you have, the more alive you are.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  People, Groups, Alive

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• Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Growth, Remember, Life Is

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1978, Manonmani Publishers

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• In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Perfect, Branches

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].”, p.14

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• The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Pain, Real, Growth

  Richard Paul Evans (2010). “The Walk: A Novel”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• Motion is the sign of life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Vamanananda (Swami.), Arun Kumar Sinha, Swami Vivekananda (1993). “Eternal Platform”

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• The sign of life is strength and growth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Growth, Life Is

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• I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Art, Powerful, Eye

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.11

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• Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent.

  John Ruskin

  Progress And Change, Perfect, Essentials

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].”, p.14

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• Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Breathing, World

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “A Call to Prayer”, p.6, Editora Dracaena

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• The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

  Jacques Derrida

  Circles, Return, Chance

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.340, Stanford University Press

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• Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles!

  Sarah Harmer

  Thinking, Light, Puddles

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• The marvel is that we did not all die of cold. As a matter of fact, only one of my party actually froze to death before he could be got back, but I am not able to tell how many have ended up in hospital. We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Party, Horizon

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• Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave. Everyone must work out his own salvation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Work Out, Brave

  "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/The Gita III" by Swami Vivekananda, May 29, 1900.

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• When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life. Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life; but it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.

  Ramakrishna

  Struggle, Men, Perfect

  Ramakrishna (1965). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of them, their number being 1120”

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• The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Tombstone, Sky

  Edward Abbey (1954). “Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader”, E P Dutton

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• I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.

  Evel Knievel

  Children, Thinking, Engineering

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• Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.

  Jamake Highwater

  Art, Civilization, Feelings

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• Body concentrates order. It continuously self-repairs. Every five days you get a new stomach lining. You get a new liver every two months. Your skin replaces itself every six weeks. Every year, 98 percent of the atoms of your body are replaced. This non-stop chemical replacement, metabolism, is a sure sign of life.

  Lynn Margulis

  Self, Order, Years

  Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1995). “What is Life?”, p.17, Univ of California Press

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• Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Boredom, Rejection, Moral

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2006.

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• One of the chief duties which [the Christian] will punctually and carefully fulfill is the duty of prayer. You will remember in the Book of Acts, when Saul the persecutor was converted by a special miracle, the sign given of his conversion was this: "Behold he prayeth." Prayer is the breath of the soul. Just as breathing is the sign of life, prayer is the sign of the life of the soul.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Christian, Prayer, Book

  "Sin and Its Consequences".

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• The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and strength] in the hand.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Health, Hands, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2549, Manonmani Publishers

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• I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Wind, Rivers, White

  Bruce Chatwin (2003). “In Patagonia”, p.39, Penguin

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• Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this," said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-flopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking wildly around.

  J. K. Rowling

  Noise, Tongue, Yeah

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• I am standing here in the shed, and I'm waiting to see if my seeds are going to poke out ofthe dirt. I don't know if it's too early to look for signs of life or if, this time, winter has claimed my family for good.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Winter, Waiting, Looks

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.413, Scholastic Inc.

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• Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.

  Walker Percy

  Hatred, Library, World

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.45, Open Road Media

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