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Life Quotes by Bernard Berenson
- A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
- Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
- I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
- From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
- The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature…
- In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are…
- Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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