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«The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.»
«The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.»
«The quality of life, which in the ardor of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer»
Author: Henry Beston | About: Life | Keywords: ardor, midsummer
«The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs»
Author: James Allen (Statesman) | About: Belief, Life | Keywords: beliefs, conditions, found, inner, outer, reflect
«The purpose of life is a life of purpose.»
Author: Robert Byrne (Author, Writer) | About: Life
«The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.»
«The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.»
«The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next»
«The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke (Proverbs 13:8).»
Author: Bible | About: Life | Keywords: Proverbs, ransom, ransomed, rebuke, rebukes
«The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us.»