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Life
«A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living»
Author: Rudolf Steiner
| About:
Community,
Life
| Keywords:
community, healthy, mirror, only when, reflection, social, The Mirror
«A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied»
Author: Cyril Connolly
| About:
Life,
Reason
| Keywords:
balanced, bout, bouts, drives, irrational, occasional, require, violent
«A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.»
«A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.»
Author: Norman Cousins
(Editor, Essayist)
| About:
History,
Libraries,
Life
| Keywords:
delivery, famous, history of ideas, modify, place of birth, Socrates
«A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.»
Author: Rita Mae Brown
(Writer)
| About:
Action,
Life
| Keywords:
intellectually, reaction, spiritually
«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.»
«A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Adventure,
Life
| Keywords:
adventure, allowed, form, likely, short, unsatisfying
«A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
doing nothing, honorable, making, mistakes, not only, spent, useful