His Own Life Quotes
125 His Own Life quotes by 101 unique authors
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life…
— Emilie Autumn
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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
— John Barth
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It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself...…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just.…
— Cesar Chavez
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The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.
— Alexander Sutherland Neill
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Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with…
— Eric Berne
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Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived…
— Stephen Greenblatt
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Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible…
— Ludwig von Mises
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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the…
— Jane Austen
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I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with…
— Paul Newman
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A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to…
— Helen Keller
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What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life
— Hermann Hesse
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Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of his own life…
— Gerry Spence
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Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is free to pattern his own life, to develop his…
— Herbert Hoover
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That man loves God who puts his own life in harmony with him, and who serves his fellow men as though his life depends upon…
— Sterling W Sill
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Only when there is a wilderness can man harmonize his inner being with the wavelengths of the earth. When the earth, its products, its creatures,…
— William O. Douglas
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I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP (who would soon…
— Steven Morrissey
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The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life…
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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A man is never too weak or too wounded to fight. If his cause is greater than his own life.
— Unknown Author
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What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it…
— Walker Percy
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Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each…
— Timothy Keller
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The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life.…
— Saint Augustine
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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait,…
— Plato
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