There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it
There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.
A mutual friend, Benjamin Rush, brought [Tomas Jefferson and John Adams] together in 1812, and they went on to exchange letters for the rest of their lives. But in their correspondence they tended to avoid the most controversial issues, such as slavery.
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he 'lives' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words
My generation is one of the first generations of "choiceful" women - women who have actually had the choice of how they architect their lives - and I don't think shame should have any place in that. But as that generation, you get cuts and bruises.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.
Money is the currency of life because it is the external measurement system that all of us have as to how we judge where we are in our own lives.
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
When we focus on or disappointments , we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives.
This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are.
Just like ice, lives crack, too. Personalities. Identities.
Nobody kills me and lives to tell about it.
Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.
How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be!
Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.
In the end analysis, all we have is who we are and the way we have lived our lives.
What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.