“Next to God, we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth having”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.”
Charles Baudelaire
“They that mistake life's accessories for life itself are like them that go too fast in a maze: their very haste confuses them”
Seneca
“The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle.”
Dan Wakefield