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Life Quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick
- Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are…
- No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
- Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life...
- Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
- Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us
- Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal…
- We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and…
- Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the…
- Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
- It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
- Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
- No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light…
- I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could…
- Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
- Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written…
- Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of…
- Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness…
- The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of…
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