Life Quotes
We stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
You know, a lot of people don't love themselves. And they go through life with deep and haunting emotional conflicts. So the length of life means that you must love yourself. And you know what loving yourself also means? It means that you've got to accept yourself.
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
I came to the conclusion that there is an existential moment in your life when you must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.
Go out this morning. Love yourself, and that means rational and healthy self-interest. You are commanded to do that. That's the length of life. Then follow that: Love your neighbor as you love yourself. You are commanded to do that. That's the breadth of life.
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
They say to us that we must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderer.
Whatever career you may choose for yourself-doctor, lawyer, teacher-let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher.
Just as a doctor will occasionally reopen a wound, because a dangerous infection hovers beneath the half-healed surface, the revolution for human rights is opening up unhealthy areas in American life and permitting a new and wholesome healing to take place.
For too long the depth of racism in American life has been underestimated. The surgery to extract it is necessarily complex and detailed.
When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth, which flow through his instrument.
God has wrought many things out of oppression. He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different situations. Jazz speaks for life.
The daily life of the Negro is still lived in the basement of the Great Society. He is still at the bottom despite the few who have penetrated to slightly higher levels. Even where the door has been forced partially open, mobility for the Negro is still sharply restricted. There is often no bottom at which to start, and when there is, there is almost always no room at the top.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, and I was sure I should not fail.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.
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