Life Quote by John Stuart Mill

“Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want…

— John Stuart Mill

“The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who…

— Ortega y Gasset José

“Noble natures cannot dwell in this world,”

— Honoré de Balzac

“The virtues therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive the,.…

— Aristotle

“The body should be strong enough to obey the mind; a good servant must be strong. I know that intemperance stimulates the passions; in…

— Anonymous

“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstructions in…

— David Hume

“There is no craving or demand of the human mind more constant and insatiable than that for exercise and employment, and this desire seems…

— David Hume

Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

— Honore de Balzac

“Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing—too much undisciplined leisure time in which…

— Stephen Covey

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we…

— Henry David Thoreau

The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative.…

— Robert Briffault