Condition Quotes

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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it. — Elbert Hubbard
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes… — Hannah Arendt
The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in… — Thomas Carlyle
O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent. — Walt Whitman
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music… — Henry David Thoreau
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. — Martin Luther
What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can… — Petra Kelly
Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength, and the perfecting… — Maria Montessori
One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being,… — Norman Mailer
Is listening to Pink Floyd in the dark a medical condition? — Jon Stewart
We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS,… — Bob Geldof
Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or… — Bernard Berenson
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one… — Mark Twain
I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from… — Elaine Stritch
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows… — John Updike
In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in… — Benjamin Disraeli
Every man carries the entire form of human condition. — Michel de Montaigne

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