What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Our knowledge, experience, and wisdom can assist us in gaining more from this life, which will correctly set up our next life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child,… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Believing, desiring, deciding, and choosing correctly are the simple actions that define an increase in happiness and an increase in the inner… — Benjamin De Hoyos Copy Share Image
What you have known of this life so far is only a dream, a slim dream at that. As one who has… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
We are still tossed about by the disturbances of this life, which is like a stormy sea, where those who are not… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
As far as this life is concerned, [Jesus] was born of Mary and of Elohim; he came here as an offspring of… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I don't tend to work directly from life, except in trying to mimic or match the outlines of its insanity. In other… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I love this life, because I am a human being and it sure would be nice, I think, to preserve it. But… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Is there some meaning to this life? What purpose lies behind the strife? Whence do we come, where are we bound? These… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
But if they are well-founded and just, they can be no less than the high requirements of heaven, addressed by the voice… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
So this estate is given each of us to determine whether or not we will merit glory and honor "for ever and… — ElRay L. Christiansen Copy Share Image
Actually, all gifts have been given for reasons of temporal use and need and they will surely pass away at the end… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life,… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
Before God, I believe the hour has come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings as a writer. So much… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I often saw weary little women coming to the table after most exhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong (sin boldly), but… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me.… — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in… — Julie B. Beck Copy Share Image
They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can… — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
You're my all-in Della. I'll throw it all away for you. I just want you. I'm all in, baby. This life with… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I have become an orchid washed in on the salt white beach. Memory, what can I make of it now that might… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
Imagine that it’s not about the self and its concerns, about ‘what’s in it for me,’ whether that be a blessed afterlife… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
If you wish to achieve any success in this life, do your best to surround yourself with an orgy of good choices. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
God, though this life is but a wraith, Although we know not what we use, Although we grope with little faith, Give… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image