Human Life Quotes
946 quotes by 686 authors
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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
— Karen Armstrong
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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
— Francis Bacon
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former…
— Honore de Balzac
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first…
— Gary Bauer
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
— Joseph Addison
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Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious…
— Felix Adler
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of…
— Andrew Bernstein
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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.
— John Boehner
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Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
— Alvar Aalto
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
— Samuel Butler
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Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
— Julia Cameron
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Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
— Robert Casey
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A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking…
— Robert Casey
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of…
— Deepak Chopra
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In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and…
— Kofi Annan
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The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population,…
— Thomas Malthus
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