Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
Quotes to Explore
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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The life of an actor can be very enviable.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.
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I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.
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The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, and because of that, often times, we don't grow or change because we're not pushing ourselves.
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Our Yes towards life from the very beginning carries within it the Divine No which breaks forth from the antithesis and points away from what now was the thesis to the original and final synthesis. The No is not the last and highest truth, but the call from home which comes in answer to our asking for God in the world.
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Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.
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You need a balance in life. You just cannot be all the time on an adrenalin peak. You need to recharge.
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I grew up loving women and without misogyny, rancour or prejudice, totally loved and loving. And no matter what has happened since, I don't think I have treated women in my life very badly.
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I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.
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I've saved every dime I've made in my life.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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If your meals consistently revolve around corpse multiple times daily, you might become one sooner than you planned.
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I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.
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Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
