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73 Copy quote. Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground. Henry David Thoreau. Couple, Nuts, Tree. 76 Copy quote. The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau. Inspirational, Life, Motivational. Henry David Thoreau (2015).
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Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil...
- Work
Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau:...
- Self Reliance
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil...
- Mountain
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest –...
- Vegetarian
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil...
- Time
“Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without...
- Slavery
“Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without...
- Values
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest –...
- Truth
Oct 22, 2015 · Kurt Vonnegut. “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”. “Become what you are.”. “What labels me, negates me.”. Quotes About Art. “What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.”.
- Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Albert Camus. Funny, Positivity, Bad Ass.
- We have no choice, we must all die. How we live, however, is entirely of our choosing. Simon Sinek. Choices, Dies.
- I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another. John Lennon. Inspirational, Sad, Death.
- I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen. Inspirational, Funny, Life.
- “How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?” – Carson McCullers. Those we love are always alive if we keep them alive in our hearts.
- “Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation.” – Albert Einstein. Even though we die, we will live on in those we leave behind.
- “Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.” – Unknown. We might die, but our legacy may go on forever.
- “Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality…” – Emily Dickinson. In other words, love is forever.
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- Humanism
- Why Are We Here?
- Happiness
- Problems
- Doing The Right Thing
- Friends and Other People
- Other Animals
- Freedom
- Knowledge and Doubt
Humanism Why are we here? Happiness Problems Doing the right thing Friends and other people Other animals Freedom Knowledge and doubt Religion and faith Death
“Humanism is about the world, not about humanism.” – Harold Blackham “A humanist is someone who does the right thing even though she knows that no one is watching.” – Dick McMahan, New York humanist, 2004 “Humanism is the belief that we can live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs.” – British Humanist Association, 2003
“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?” – Attributed to George Eliot “The value of life lies not in its length, but in the use we make of it.” – Michel de Montaigne (1533-92), Essays “Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time i...
“Reason, Observation and Experience – the Holy Trinity of Science – have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so.” – Robert Green Ingersoll, The Gods, 1876 “The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.” – Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Ha...
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” – Attributed to Marie Curie (1867-1934) “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.” – Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) “It is only those who do nothing that make no mistakes.” – Attributed to Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) “Whenever you have a mishap, remember to ask you...
“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture – and very much to our credit.” – T H Huxley “The crucial test of ethical values is whether they apply to strangers, and those afar, not just in our midst.” – Bernard Crick, Essays on Citizenship, 2000 “Do not do to others what you would not like for you...
“Of all the means by which wisdom ensures happiness throughout life, by far the most important is the possession of friendship.” – Epicurus, Principle Doctrines, C300 BCE
“We should be bound by the laws of humanity to give gentle usage to these creatures.” – David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, 1752 “The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but Can they suffer?” – Jeremy Bentham, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789
“As it is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions; so it is that there should be different experiments in living.” – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859 “I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possibl...
“No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.” – Marcus Aurelius (121 – 80 CE), Meditations “The wisest is he who realises, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he knows nothing.” – Plato, Apology (C 375 BCE) “A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.” – David Hume, An Enquiry Co...
Life & Death. Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present.—"Walking". Always there is life which, rightly lived, implies a divine satisfaction.—. Journal, 14 November 1839. Any prospect of awakening or coming to life to a dead man makes indifferent all times and places. The place where that may occur is always the same, and ...
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May 8, 2024 · Most times they’re just beginnings in disguise.”. – Kim Harrison 4. “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called life.”. – Terry Pratchett 5. “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”. – J.K. Rowling 6.
