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Life Quotes by Phillips Brooks
- Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
- Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
- A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
- Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -…
- It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn…
- Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
- O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal…
- No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has…
- Get the pattern of your life from God, then go about your work and be yourself.
- Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this…
- There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to…
- As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
- Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days,…
- Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that…
- Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.
- It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as…
- Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life…
- Death is strong, but Life is stronger ...
- The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
- We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.
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