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Life Quotes by Annie Besant
- Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.
- What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by…
- My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give…
- 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…
- Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul…
- All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die…
- At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its…
- Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing…
- I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was…
- Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine;…
- Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its…
- Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a…
- The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God…
- What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose life he shares. As an…
- Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which…
- Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.
- There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.
- Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured…
- It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he…
- Belief in karma ought to make the life pure, strong, serene, and glad. Only our own deeds can hinder us; only our own will can…
- When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life of ours with…
- The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on…
- After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle