Short quotations about, living - Page 2

The Book of Joshua 6:21

They devoted the city to the lord a…

25 Feb , 2014  

They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it – men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys. Great short quote and quotation by: The Book of Joshua 6:21 ,

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Juvenal

Think it the greatest impiety to pr…

17 Dec , 2013  

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living. Great short quote and quotation by: Juvenal , Roman poet & satirist (55 AD – 127 AD)

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This life is worth living, we can s…

14 Jun , 2013  

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. Great short quote and quotation by: William James , US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 – 1910)

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Those who educate children well are…

18 Jan , 2013  

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. Great short quote and quotation by: Aristotle , Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

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To live is to function. That is all…

13 Oct , 2011  

To live is to function. That is all there is in living. Great short quote and quotation by: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. , US jurist (1841 – 1935)

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Pliny The Elder

True glory consists in doing what d…

13 Oct , 2011  

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it. Great short quote and quotation by: Pliny The Elder , Roman scholar & scientist (23 AD – 79 AD)

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Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends his circle of comp…

24 Mar , 2011  

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. Great short quote and quotation by: Albert Schweitzer , French philosopher & physician (1875 – 1965)

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Lawrence K. Frank

We are living the events which for …

15 Feb , 2011  

We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the […]

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Alan Chadwick

We are the living links in a life f…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars. Great short quote and quotation by: Alan Chadwick ,

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We cannot be too earnest, too persi…

15 Feb , 2011  

We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct. Great short quote and quotation by: Author Unknown ,

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John Claypool

We do not first get all the answers…

15 Feb , 2011  

We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but […]

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R. J. Baughan

We find greatest joy, not in gettin…

15 Feb , 2011  

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good […]

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