Work and love -- these are the basics waking life is a dream controlled.
Work and love -- these are the basics waking life is a dream controlled.
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses waking life is a dream controlled.
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of the content.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience the union of life and peace.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best-chosen word
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories