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Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Buddha

Life, Health, Death

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton

Love, Find, Themselves

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Aristotle

Life, Men, After

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everyone, Mirror, Behavior

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
Thomas Merton

Life, Live, Spiritual

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Courage, Yourself, Friend

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn Rand

Power, Choice, Choose

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking

Life, Nature, Human

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott

God, Same, Assume

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
Bill Gates

Afraid, Ideas, Quite

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Voltaire

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Rock, Single, Him

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Death, Sadness, Silence

The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.
Charles Stanley

God, Care, Father

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
Aldous Huxley

Work, Art, System

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
Victor Hugo

Humanity, Hell, Tell

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
Marlene Dietrich

Men, Fashion, Public

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis Bacon

Beauty, Sensible, Infinite

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams

Nothing, Worse, Concept

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
Maxwell Maltz

Change, Human, Self

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Marcel Proust

Time, Changes, Alter

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
Karl Marx

Future, Country, Less

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
Bertrand Russell

Time, View, Outside

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Alan Watts

Try, Sense, Myth

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Benjamin Disraeli

Faith, Great, Art

In every parting there is an image of death.
George Eliot

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
Mason Cooley

Love, Lust, Begins

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

God, True, Else

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock

Life, Fear, Making

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
Marshall McLuhan

Politics, Happy, Powerful

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