Life Quote by Jean Toomer Download Open image “Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.” — Jean Toomer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life Men
“Men, discouraged by their failure to accomplish exactly what they desire, often speak of their lives as purposeless, but it is idle talk, for, in fact, no intelligent life which concerns itself vigorously and properly with the things about it can be said to be purposeless. Such a life adheres, automatically, to the law of progression, and therefore moves toward… — John A. Widtsoe Copy Share
Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void. — Johann Gottfried Seume Copy Share Image
“The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
...Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share
in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
When a man has reverence for life, he will never do anything to harm, hinder or destroy life. Instead he bends every effort to… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Happy, Muriel? No, not happy. Your aim is wrong. There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness,… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence. — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
Dripping rain like golden honey- And the sweet earth flying from the thunder — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
“Dusk, suggesting the almost imperceptible posession of giant trees, settled with a purple haze about the cane. I felt strange, as I always do… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
“Her Lips Are Copper Wire” whisper of yellow globes gleaming on lamp posts that sway like bootleg licker drinkers in the fog and let… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist. — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
