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Life Quotes by Wendell Berry
- If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an…
- Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.
- If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health…
- I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children;…
- It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life…
- A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.
- All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold…
- There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the…
- It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is…
- It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.
- To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.
- Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God?…
- We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging…
- A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith,…
- You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
- We clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us; we enter the little circle of…
- We live the given life, and not the planned.
- The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making
- But the sower going forth to sow sets foot into time to come, the seeds falling on his own place. He has prepared a way…
- The world is whole beyond human knowing.
- However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found…
- To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money,…
- The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and…
- The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource…
- When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and…
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- 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