Common Life Quotes
36 quotes by 30 authors
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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
— Jane Addams
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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
— Aphra Behn
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In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what…
— Annie Besant
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Let us learn to accept ourselves-accept the truth that we are capable in some directions and limited in others, that genius is rare, that mediocrity…
— Joshua L. Liebman
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When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.
— Antisthenes
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I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.
— Tryon Edwards
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The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dependence), and…
— William Stringfellow
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When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are…
— Clarence Darrow
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The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life…
— Louis Agassiz
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In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life,…
— David Hume
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Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures, we have to…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in common life, but…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however…
— C.S. Lewis
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The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of…
— Richard Trumka
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Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.
— Charles William Eliot
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Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they heart…
— Edward Bouverie Pusey
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Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.
— Jan Karon
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All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live…
— Peter Ackroyd
Who Wrote These Common Life Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 36 Common Life Quotes, led by these top contributors: