Common Life Quotes

36 quotes by 30 authors

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
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. — Aphra Behn
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
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
When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. — Antisthenes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love. — Jan Karon
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

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