A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life. — Theodore W. Parker Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Man did not weave the web of life. He is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
“The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“The amount of life we truly live is small. For our existence on Earth is not Life, but merely Time.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Life is merely a series of moments and is in fact an unflinching serial killer, since it kills steadily each moment one… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Mortal lives are not stones. They are not seas. For impermanence to judge itself by the standards of permanence is folly. Or… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live?… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Without making the fundamental choice to be the predominant creative force in your life, no matter what you do to attempt to… — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
“We must go down to the very fundamentals of life. For any merely superficial ordering of life that leaves its deepest needs… — I-Ching Copy Share Image
I am not a speaker nor a preacher. I have no mission to change the world. I have no original words or… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“The passions also, the winds of life, would be useless, if not injurious, did the substance which composes our thinking being, after… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords. — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“His life was merely a slow-moving tragedy, an act of steady dying conducted before everyone's eyes.” — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Have you ever fully realized that life is, after all, merely a series of habits, and that it lies entirely within one's… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“Life is merely one very long day that routinely gets dark to give people a sensible excuse to keep their eyes closed… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
