Human Life Quotes

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha

Life, Good, Wisdom

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Happiness, Good

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Power, Human

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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, True, Human

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Nature, Human

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

Life, Help, Human

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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir

Life, Freedom, Human

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Henry James

Life, Important, Human

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Character, Human

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.
Mitt Romney

Life, Leadership, Human

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George Eliot

Life, Heart, Human

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
Henry Ward Beecher

Life, God, Human

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. Forster

Life, Love, Food

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George Santayana

Life, Happiness, Human

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Ambrose Bierce

Life, Age, Human

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
Lewis Mumford

Life, Beauty, Truth

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

Life, Good, Art

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Samuel Butler

Life, Morning, Human

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
Honore de Balzac

Life, Human, Spring

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison

Life, Friendship, Greatest

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Human, State

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
Desmond Tutu

Life, Love, Hope

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
E. Stanley Jones

Life, Character, Human

The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
Adrienne Rich

Life, Love, War

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton Trueblood

Life, Human, Made

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.
Thomas More

Life, Human, Person

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
Deepak Chopra

Life, Human, Done

Communal well-being is central to human life.
Cat Stevens

Life, Human, Communal

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.
Tobey Maguire

Life, Beauty, Peace

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
David Herbert Lawrence

Life, Human, Self

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