To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Dataism is gaining a better and better understanding of decision-making processes, but it might be adopting an increasingly skewed view of life.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“What was the meaning of this cheap agitation over trifles which I had noticed in myself of late, which hindered me from… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The Labour party is a lost cause for anybody who is moderate and sensible and believes in that left-of-centre view of life. — Anna Soubry Copy Share Image
The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters. — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition. — Howard Thompson Copy Share Image
My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they would… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“She was carrying an armful of Bibles for her class, and such was her view of life that events which produced heartache… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The use or abuse of Christianity in contradiction to the very message of the gospel reveals not the gospel for what it… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
As a young adult, I began to read widely in history, philosophy, and religion - including the Bible. I began to feel… — Mike Berenstain Copy Share Image
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early… — Basil W. Maturin Copy Share Image
When you're young it's football, football, football. Then you get a family, kids come into things and you find you have a… — Michael Ballack Copy Share Image
In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
“But who gets to think that way? Who gets to celebrate this cosmic view of life? Not the migrant farm worker. Not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The ordinary man cannot imagine this Providence in any other form but that of a greatly exalted father, for only such a… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“the world of appearances is valueless, as it is limited, short-lived, imperfect, painful, sinful, hopeless, and miserable; while the realm of reality… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
You do just have to go back to moral philosophy and you've got to say, okay, there is greed, people do want… — Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Copy Share Image
I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“It makes perfect sense that if human beings are raised in warm, loving households; if they are brought up to believe that… — Harold Schechter Copy Share Image
The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“The trouble with today's snarky pipsqueaks who break off a sentence or two, or who write a couple of mean paragraphs, is… — David Denby Copy Share Image
“[Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all “progressive”… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In my Future of an Illusion I was concerned [...] with what the ordinary man understands by his religion, that system of… — Freud Sigmund Copy Share Image
“Love? What is it? The most natural painkiller what there is.” You may become curious, though, about what happened to that painkiller… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
I am puzzled that Conway Morris apparently doesn't grasp the equally strong (and inevitable) personal preferences embedded in his own view of… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
When your life becomes clear and pure, when your mind is clear and your view of life is unobstructed, then you'll be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Its not the presence of someone that gives life a beautiful meaning¦ Its the way someone touches your heart that gives you… — Laine Copy Share Image
When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate I was able to live at least a few years of my life in the tort of opulent… — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
“Your imagination is everything. It is a preview of life’s coming attractions. ALBERT EINSTEIN” — Terri Savelle Foy Copy Share Image
The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact… — David Salle Copy Share Image
Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything… — Sander Levin Copy Share Image
“There is a view of life which conceives that where the crowd is, there is also truth. There is another view of… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Who was she, what was she that she should hold herself superior? What view of life, what design upon fate, what conception… — Henry James Copy Share Image
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