Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

Thomas Carlyle

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• You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Help

• My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Society
  • Doubt

• Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Life
  • Morning
  • My Life

• Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Change
  • Responsibility

• The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Government
  • United

• My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Life
  • Goal
  • Model

• Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Life
  • Human

• One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Sometimes
  • Bored

• 'Nothin' on You' changed my life: I finally feel that I reached the point where I wanna be at. At times I questioned whether it was worth the sacrifice, but now I see it was.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Sacrifice

• 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.

  

  Hanns Eisler
  • Life
  • Music
  • Human

• To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Profound
  • Danger

• Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Drunk

• A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Look

• Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Life
  • Real
  • Experience

• It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth!

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Dark

• Reason tells us that creation never can be perfectly happy. So long as it is incomplete it must put up with imperfection and sorrow. It can only be perfect when it ceases to be creation, and is God. Do our prayers dare go so far?

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Up
  • God
  • Long

• As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Death

• The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

  

  Mary Astell
  • God
  • Father
  • Eyes

• I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

  

  Taki Theodoracopulos
  • Democracy
  • Better
  • Rules

• I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.

  

  Anthony Storr
  • Experience
  • Morning
  • Monday

• On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women paid more and got less of a benefit, and also the whole issue of prevention.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Women
  • Health
  • Insurance

• Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

  

  Anthony Horowitz
  • Writing
  • Magic

• Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Life
  • God
  • Force