It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking… — Thomas Dreier Copy Share Image
Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character. — Alec Sulkin Copy Share Image
For me, I look at the faces of my kids and I think about the future that is going to await them… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas Copy Share Image
More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
I've always loved theatre because it's so immediate. The challenge of it is that, career wise, it's easier to get traction in… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Humility is an attribute of godliness possessed by true Saints. It is easy to understand why a proud man fails. He is… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to… — Henry IV of France Copy Share Image
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
At every point I wished that I was born English. They need to make it colder in here. You could hang meat… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If you look at your life and compare your life to that of an evil person, you will find that in most… — Gerry Lindgren Copy Share Image
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next… — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
