Life Consists Quotes

78 quotes by 68 authors

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. — Josh Billings
Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. — Jean Anouilh
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of… — Thomas Aquinas
The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and… — Seraphim of Sarov
Christian life consists of faith and charity — Martin Luther
Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its own taste. A… — Rajneesh
The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of the glycogenic material… — Claude Bernard
Life consists in the sum of the functions, by which death is resisted. — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of… — Jean Paul
A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts… — William Matthews
I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting. — Nahum Goldmann
The Christian life consists in what God does for us, not what we do for God. — Marva Dawn
From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious… — Polybius
Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we… — Rene Descartes
Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home… — Thomas Merton
The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dependence), and… — William Stringfellow
If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one… — George Soros
Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters — Ellen Langer
Happiness is one pole, sadness is another. Blissfulness is one pole, misery is another. Life consists of both, and life is richer because of both.… — Rajneesh
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us — Harry Emerson Fosdick

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