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Lives Quotes (page 291)

John Piper quote: "Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent..."
Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies. John Piper
Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself. Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers. Ernest Hemingway
I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people'sglass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone. Harriet Beecher Stowe
It is necessary to take what is common as our guide; however, though this logic is universal, the many live as if each individual has his own private wisdom. Heraclitus
Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass."Like somehow we're running out of time. Chuck Palahniuk
I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living. Kurt Vonnegut
He had said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. Juana, in her woman's soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself; that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man; she could not live without... John Steinbeck
It has been the will of Heaven," the essay began, "that we should be thrown into existence at a period when the greatest philosophers and lawgivers of antiquity would have wished to live...a period when a coincidence of circumstances without example has afforded to thirteen colonies at once an opportunity of beginning government anew from the foundation and building as they choose. How few of the human race have ever had the opportunity of choosing a system of government for themselves and... David McCullough
Rod Stewart quote: "Someone like you makes it hard to live without somebody else"
Someone like you makes it hard to live without somebody else Rod Stewart
I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience Doug Coupland
Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Rainer Maria Rilke
Ivy Compton-Burnett quote: "People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why..."
People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's. Ivy Compton-Burnett
However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Dennis Potter quote: "that parish which allows the living to grasp the no longer..."
...that parish which allows the living to grasp the no longer cold hand of the beloved dead Dennis Potter

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