Top 1200 Human Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender.

Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being.

In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.

There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.

What makes us really human is it's in the presence of death that we start valuing life.

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.

There's a spiritual bond that connects all Souls: human, animal, and lower forms of life.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the people. He must beautify life and defend it. He must be a citizen first and foremost, so that his art might consciously extol human life and lead man to a radiant future.

Perhaps it won't matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in the growth of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear. These fruits will be a new breed of the human species, a human with new views, new vigor, new resiliency, and a new view of the human purpose. The plant: the tree of human destiny.

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

You can be in show business and have a happy, productive life. But you have to be a developed human being before you can do that.

To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings - travels in warm climes. To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

Satyagraha is the pursuit of truth. My grandfather believed that truth should be the cornerstone of everybody's life and that we must dedicate our lives to pursuing truth, to finding out the truth in our lives. And so his entire philosophy was the philosophy of life. It was not just a philosophy for conflict resolution, but something that we have to imbibe in our life and live it all the time so that we can improve and become better human beings.

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.

"Hope springs eternal in the human breast," and is as necessary to life as the act of breathing.

On the quality of life: #1. Realize that each human being has a built-in capacity for recuperation and repair. #2. Recognize that the quality of life is all-important. #3. Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life. #4. Nurture the regenerative and restorative forces within you. #5. Utilize laughter to create a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work for yourself and those around you. #6. Develop confidence and ability to feel love, hope and faith, and acquire a strong will to live.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.

Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.

I believe that God has a plan and purpose not only for the human race, but for my individual life.

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents

I have studied many religions, many different persuasions of thought in Christian belief, and I have come, in this experience to this: the most important question in anyone's life is the question asked by poor Pilate in Matthew 27:22: 'What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called Christ?' No Other question in the whole sweep of human experience is as important as this. It is the choice between life and death, between meaningless existence and life abundant. What will you do with Christ? Accept Him and life, or reject Him and die? What else is there?

Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.

Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here the human personality is regarded as continuous and accessible to memory, so that, when one is incarnated or born, one is able, potentially, to remember that one has lived through previous existences, and that these existences were one's own, ie, they had the same ego form as the present life. As a rule, reincarnation means rebirth in a human body.

One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

It makes life so much easier when you can just say 'I'm human' at the end of the day."

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.

...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.

All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.

To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.

The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But a life without heart is a life without life force. The psyche, as well as the body, needs both heart and brain in order to survive. Like Chinese women who bound their feet and the could no longer walk freely, we have bound our hearts, and thus stunted our growth as moral beings.

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

Human life is fragile, and the threat posed to individuals in politics cannot be overlooked.

According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be born, and this is why all the suffering and pain of life on earth is worthwhile--just for the chance to experience this infinite love. And once you have found this divinity within, can you hold it? Because if you can...bliss.

Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.