Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
One watches people starting out in life quite adequately, handling life with active vigor, as they run, one after another, into experiences where something deeper than vigor is needed. Serious failure, for example. Some night in his lifetime everyone come.
The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. If is unafraid of what other people think ... It does not adapt either its pace or its objectives to the pace and objectives of its neighbors. It thinks its own thoughts, it reads its own books, it developed its own hobbies, and it is governed by its own conscience. The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are unalterable disinterested love of truth, fidelity to facts, accuracy in measurement, exactness of verificationso, in life as a whole, the towering ethical criteria remain unshaken. Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
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