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Life Quotes by Michael Leunig
- If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates…
- Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its…
- For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings…
- Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.
- Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and all…
- The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of…
- A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the tiny…
- The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or…
- As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug…
- Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often very rude and…
- Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with water…
- As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can…
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