#life

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment. ↗

— William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

#environment #human #human life #ignorance #life

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly. ↗

— William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

#bad #being #conceive #exercise #freely

You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#integrity #life #living #matches #outside

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#also #could #his #i #life

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#amusement #because #friends #i #know

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#close #closed #down #experiencing #joy

If you can see a thing whole, it seems that it's always beautiful. Planet,lives...But close up, a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#beauty

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#answering #asking #bewilderment #chief #clever

The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#course #less #life #more #others

I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy. ↗

— Paula Cole

#everyday life #find #happy #i #i think