#life

[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama. ↗

— Bart D. Ehrman

#intelligence #life #literature #religion #inspirational

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context. ↗

— Joseph Beuys

#completely #context #enterprise #future #go

Life is lived in common, but not in community. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#community #life #lived

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life. ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#great #life #meals #memory #play

Now it is just this world we like the best, the Germanic world, the world of Nordic life. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#germanic #just #life #like #now

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#kinder #life #narcissist #nobody #own

I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#i #life #live #person #wants

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#connection #consciousness #formation #formed #habit

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. ↗

— George Eliot

#best #failure #knows #life #only

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life. ↗

— Danny Boyle

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