Continuation Of Life Quotes:

The Christian message, like an ecosystem, is about process. In an ecological sense, the cross symbolizes a willingness to die so that the continuation of life might be served. Now we must extend our love to the unborn if we are to serve eternal life.

- Wes Jackson

topic: Christian, Ecosystems, Continuation Of Life

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

topic: Dry Up, Continuation Of Life, Literature, Continuation

If we are unhappy without a relationship, we'll probably be unhappy with one as well. A relationship doesn't begin our life; a relationship doesn't become our life. A relationship is a continuation of life.

- Melody Beattie

source: Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 3 Title Bundle: Author of Codependent No More and Three Other Best Sellers: A collection of three Melody Beattie best sellers”, p.118, Hazelden Publishing

topic: Continuation Of Life, Unhappy, Wells

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Life, Family, Spiritual, Buddhist Monk, Happy Family

Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we need a theory of revolutionary ecology that will encompass social and biological issues, class struggle, and a recognition of the role of global corporate capitalism in the oppression of peoples and the destruction of nature.

- Judi Bari

topic: Struggle, Practice, Class, Continuation Of Life, Destruction Of Nature

Error is not just acceptable, it is necessary for the continuation of life, provided it is not too great. A large error is a catastrophe, a small error is essential for enhancing existence. Without error, there is no movement. Death follows.

- Jacques Lecoq

source: Jacques Lecoq (2013). “The Moving Body (Le Corps Poetique): Teaching Creative Theatre”, p.21, A&C Black

topic: Errors, Essentials, Movement, Continuation Of Life

Are not our desires inseparably intertwined with the continuation of life? Even the idea of eliminating desire is fruitless. The desire to eliminate all desire is still itself a desire. How can we find release and peace by replacing one desire with another? Surely we shall find peace not by eliminating desire, but by finding its fulfillment and satisfaction in the One who created it.

- Sadhu Sundar Singh

topic: Ideas, Desire, Satisfaction, Continuation Of Life

Man feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe in the existence of the soul, yet you must acknowledge that your body will live on as green grass, as a cloud. For you are, after all, water and dust.

- Janusz Korczak

source: Janusz Korczak (2003). “Ghetto Diary”, p.22, Yale University Press

topic: Believe, Men, Clouds, Continuation Of Life, Green Grass