Inspirational Quotes on Living

“Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that, citizens; on this side, orphans, on that, children; on this side, captives; on that, freemen; on this side, disguised, unknown; on that, disclosed and proclaimed as the sons of God.”

“Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.”

“On this side of the grave we are exiles; on that, citizens.”

“When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which comes before and after-- --the small space I occupy and which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which know nothing of me, I take fright and am amazed to see myself here rather than there, now rather than then.”

“I still accept an imperative of knowledge, through which men may be influenced, but then it must come alive in me, and this is what I now recognize as the most important of all. This is what my soul thirsts for as the African deserts thirst for water. This is what I need to live, a completely human life and not merely one of knowledge”

“Did you ever stop to think that you can’t leave for your job in the morning without being dependent upon most of the world?… Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe is structured. It is its interrelated quality. We aren’t going to have peace on earth until we recognize this basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality. —Christmas Sermon on Peace, 1967”

“God give peace to the dead, the living have still to live. That is right, isn’t it?”

“There are no conditions of life to which a man cannot accustom himself, especially if he sees that every one around him lives in the same way.”