Individual Life Quotes:

I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Happiness, Mean, Men, Individual Life

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

topic: Freedom, Government, World, Individual Life

There's never going to be peace in the world until there's peace in nations. There's never going to be peace in nations till there's peace in communities and families and in individual lives.

- Rick Warren

topic: Community, World, Individual, Individual Life

The British Empire has advanced to a new conception of autonomyand freedom, to the idea of a system of British nations, each freely ordering its own individual life, but bound together in unity byallegiance to one Crown, and co-operating in all that concerns the common weal.

- George VI

source: 1927 Opening, as Duke of York, the first Australian Parliament to assemble in Canberra, 9 May.

topic: Ideas, Unity, Together, British Empire, Individual Life

Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living. This is in essence the great principle on which all productive living must rest, for relationships among all the beings of the universe must be fulfilled; in this way each individual life may also be fulfilled.

- Paula Gunn Allen

source: Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.50, Open Road Media

topic: Essence, Purpose, May, Individual Life

Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude! They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!

- Fred Van Lente

topic: Journey, Solitude, Different, Individual Life, Previous Generations

World peace comes about when each individual lives in a peaceful setting. Likewise, when each individual lives in a peaceful setting, it means that world peace has been realized.

- Masahisa Goi

topic: Mean, Peaceful, World, Individual Life

Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the same token we rarely think of them.... One may symbolize the individual life as a bank of issue. The bank lives on the credit of a gold reserve which is rarely seen, which lies at the bottom of metal coffers hidden in the vaults of the building. The most elementary caution will suggest that from time to time the effective condition of these guaranties--of these credences, one might say, that are the basis of credit--be passed in review.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

topic: Lying, Thinking, Issues, Individual Life, Credence

Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body or moral nature, there the State enters "woman's peculiar sphere," her sphere of motherly succor and training, her sphere of sympathetic and self-sacrificing ministration to individual lives.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

topic: Children, Sacrifice, Motherhood, Individual Life, Motherly

people who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.

- Guy Debord

topic: Life, Reality, Greatness, Individual Life

The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear - is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Responsibility, Opportunity, Giving, Individual Life

The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.

- Tad Williams

topic: Wisdom, Grandparent, Appreciate, Individual Life

The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

- Alan Lightman

topic: Book, Creative, Different, Individual Life

These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.

- Bill McKibben

topic: Fighting, Technology, Being Free, Individual Life

We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This is a quite extraordinary legacy that we all have inherited from the people who lived before us.Our genes did not just appear when we were born.They have been carried to us by millions of individual lives over thousands of generations.

- Bryan Sykes

topic: Journey, People, Mixtures, Individual Life

I realized after being married for some time that it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough to lead an individual life where I loved on person and we created a world together.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Together, World, Rama, Individual Life

The way of Zen is to become independent and strong. Don't rely on others for perceptions of life and truth. Do it individually. Go to a teacher of Zen to learn how to do that, not to get answers for individual life situations.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Teacher, Strong, Independent, Individual Life, Perception Of Life

In the USA, where so many people compete for one and the same thing, where job opportunities, residential facilities, and food resources have to be spread over so many people, the question of justice becomes more imperative than ever before if communal and individual life is to be made possible and enjoyable.

- Ndabaningi Sithole

topic: Jobs, Opportunity, Usa, Individual Life, Job Opportunities

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

- George MacDonald

source: George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.560, Delphi Classics

topic: Real, May, Impossible, Individual Life

My wife and I have purchased two hybrids. We bought a 3 kw photovoltaic unit. We recycle and offset our carbon emissions on the Internet. We turn things off. But we also spend two nice salaries every year, and here's the dirty little secret - our environmental footprint is HUGE, I'm sure. We've all got to do what we can in our individual lives, but we've also got to drive the systemic changes that will make the big differences.

- James Gustave Speth

source: "Book World: 'The Bridge at the Edge of the World'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 29, 2008.

topic: Nice, Dirty, Years, Individual Life, Hybrid

I think that most of the action in religion is around the home, is in families, and is in individual lives, and they can go on their own searches, watch their own TV shows, read their own books, form their own groups and discuss it, but that's where the action is - on the home front.

- Bruce Feiler

source: "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 20, 2013.

topic: Book, Home, Thinking, Individual Life

I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

source: "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

topic: Life, Men, World, Individual Life, Phenomenology

Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; no fire, no heroism, no intensity of though and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

topic: Men, Fire, Feelings, Individual Life, Unyielding

If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong to society and that he, as a member of society, has the right to dispose of them...that psychological confession reveals the enormity of the extent to which altruism erodes men's capacity to grasp the concept of rights or the value of an individual life.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Men, Rights, Erode, Individual Life

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

- Margaret Walker

topic: Racism, Atmosphere, Black, Individual Life, American Society

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

- Peace Pilgrim

topic: Peace, Simplicity, Care, Individual Life, Nuclear Energy

Life, in both its knowing and its doing, has become today a "free fall," so to say, into the next minute, into the future. So that, whereas, formerly, those not wishing to hazard the adventure of an individual life could rest within the pale of a comfortably guaranteed social order, today all the walls have burst. It is not left to us to chooseto hazard the adventure of an unprecedented life: adventure is upon us, like a tidal wave.

- Joseph Campbell

source: Joseph Campbell (1988). “Myths, dreams, and religion”, Spring Pubns

topic: Wall, Fall, Adventure, Individual Life, Tidal Waves

Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible, individual lives may be gloriously diversified, uniquely individualized, and yet socially useful; or, these are mere phrases, snares to catch gulls, soothing syrup for our troubled souls.

- George Amos Dorsey

topic: Men, Justice, Goal, Individual Life, Syrup

Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.

- Rabindranath Tagore

source: Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.82, Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Country, Men, Ideas, Individual Life

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

- Mary Catherine Bateson

topic: Christian, Imagination, Religion, Individual Life, Human Imagination

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

- Maya Lin

topic: War, Definitions, Modern, Individual Life, Acknowledgement

If world peace is to be established, peace in the individual must be established first. Transcendental Meditation directly brings peace in the individual life.

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

topic: Meditation, World, Firsts, Individual Life, Transcendental Meditation

Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that sense, you could just as easily tell the same story from another character's perspective. Maybe that's a good idea for a TV series.

- Anton Corbijn

topic: Character, Ideas, People, Individual Life, Story People

I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

topic: Believe, Thinking, Would Be, Individual Life

For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Men, Past, Links, Individual Life

The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.

- Lewis Mumford

topic: Progress, Cacophony, Wonder, Individual Life

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

- Auguste Comte

source: Auguste Comte, John Henry Bridges (1865). “A General View of Positivism”, p.387, London, Trübner and Company

topic: Real, Race, Life Is, Individual Life

There is a close connection between art and religion in the sense that both are concerned about questions of meaning - if not about the meaning of existence generally, then certainly about the meaning of one's individual life and how a person relates to his or her total community/environment.

- Freeman Patterson

topic: Art, Community, Connections, Individual Life

With only one life to live we can't afford to live it only for itself. Somehow we must each for himself, find the way in which we can make our individual lives fit into the pattern of all the lives which surround it. We must establish our own relationships to the whole. And each must do it in his own way, using his own talents, relying on his own integrity and strength, climbing his own road to his own summit.

- Hortense Odlum

topic: Integrity, Climbing, Patterns, Individual Life, One Life To Live

Progress is not automatic, it depends on what we do every day. So any statement of ownership of our own bodies, however that occurs in our individual lives or our community or our collective lives, is crucial.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Community, Progress, Body, Individual Life

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.

- Rachel Holmes

topic: Bangs, Biographies, Individual, Individual Life, Protagonists

We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in personal introspection. We have enough common psychology under our belts to know that psychology doesn't explain or heal everything and that it isn't the fulfillment of awareness, but its beginning. We are undergoing a shift in paradigms in which we are trying to develop new models for humanness and human responsibility. This is no small task. Our individual lives are placed under increasing pressure to respond adequately to both inner and outer change.

- Christina Baldwin

topic: Responsibility, Writing, People, Individual Life, Journaling

The baggage in your individual life will weigh down your married life. Do something about it.

- Ted Lowe

topic: Baggage, Married, Individual, Individual Life, Married Life

For the protection of the community, of individual life and health, there are some necessities that should be provided for all at the expense of all, such as roads, pure water, and sanitary systems for concentrated population, and reasonably comprehensive mail service. The determination between services that should be operated by the government and those which should be left to private enterprise under proper control should be governed by the degree of necessity to the community as a whole.

- Theodore Newton Vail

topic: Determination, Government, Water, Individual Life, Pure Water

People have to take seriously the threat coming from asteroids and what it represents. As Chelyabinsk reminded us, we have to take asteroids as a serious scientific concern, as well as a concern for protection of mankind and survival of the planet. This is not some kook policy. It's the protection of the interests of every single individual life on this planet.

- Kesha Rogers

topic: People, Survival, Asteroids, Individual Life

The First Insight Theory: Mysterious coincidences cause the reconsideration of the inherent mystery that surrounds our individual lives on this planet.

- James Redfield

topic: Firsts, Causes, Mysterious, Individual Life, Reconsideration

The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.

- Odd Nerdrum

source: Source: sturm-lie.be

topic: Love, Life, Death, Individual Life, Live Life Happy

No experience in this world has ever been cathartic without the willing participation of the individual. Life does not automatically bestow wisdom or growth upon anyone just for showing up.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

source: BookBrowse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com.

topic: Growth, Doe, World, Individual Life, Cathartic

No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death as well as in life. Some would say (and I am one of them) that we can live fully only by making ourselves answerable to the claims of eternity as to those of time.

- Wendell Berry

source: Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press

topic: Environmental, Generations, Life Is, Individual Life

The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation.

- Rabindranath Tagore

source: Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.3, Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Heart, Gains, Mystery, Individual Life, Commentary