Win The Life

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.- Albert Schweitzer

 

 

 

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.- Albert Schweitzer

 

 

 

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.- Albert Schweitzer

 

 

 

Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations, governments, schools, public institutions, and social practices are judged as efficient, rational and productive not only to the extent they maximize money and power, but to the extent they maximize love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and our capacities to respond with awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation.-- Michael Lerner

 

 

 

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth. This requires building economies with heart.-- David Korten

 

 

 

Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.-- Joseph Campbell

 

 

 

I'm interested in learning that's motivated by reverence for life, that's motivated by a desire to learn skills, to learn new things that help us to better contribute to our own well-being and the well-being of others. And what fills me with great sadness is any learning that I see motivated by coercion.-- Marshall Rosenberg

 

 

 

The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls is one of those everyday prayers.-- Brenda Peterson

 

 

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God. - Sir Francis Bacon

 

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good ; consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. - Albert Schweitzer

 

All that I have to say to the world and to mankind is contained in the notion, reverence for life. - Albert Schweitzer

 

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. - John Milton

 

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. - Eric Hoffer

 

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. - Sir Francis Bacon

 

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton

 

Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneration, but no rest. - Sir Francis Bacon

 

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us. - Mark Twain

 

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?-William O. Douglas

 

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.Dale Dauten

 

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.-Paul Tsongas

 

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.-Aristotle

 

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.-Calvin Coolidge

 

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.-Swami Vivekananda

 

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.-Stewart Udall

 

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.-Thomas Hobbes

 

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.-Colin Greenwood

 

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.-William Godwin

 

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.-Estelle Parsons

 

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.-Eric Hoffer

 

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.-Albert Camus

 

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.-Socrates

 

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.-Margaret Sanger

 

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.-Bodhidharma

 

LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others.-Charles Inglis

 

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.-Samuel Butler

 

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.-John Ruskin

 

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.-Aristotle

 

My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting... but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me.-Henry Ossawa Tanner

 

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.-David Seabury

 

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.-Roger Tory Peterson

 

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.-Pauline Kael

 

Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.-Max von Sydow

 

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.-Henry Bolingbroke

 

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.-Henry David Thoreau

 

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.-Frank Lloyd Wright

 

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.-Sophocles

 

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.-Albert Schweitzer

 

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.-Albert Schweitzer

 

Reverence is fatal to literature.-E. M. Forster

 

Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.-Jonny Greenwood

 

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.-Richard Powers

 

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.-Henry Ellis

 

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.-Norman Douglas

 

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.-Bessie Head

 

Above all things, reverence yourself.-Pythagoras

 

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.-Pythagoras

 

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.-Thomas Merton

 

At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.-David Herbert Donald

 

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.-Albert Schweitzer

 

Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.-Owen Glendower

 

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.-Albert Schweitzer

 

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.-Sextus Propertius

 

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.-Robert Millikan

 

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.-John Milton

 

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.-John Adams

 

I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.-Ben Lindsey

 

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.-Thomas Mann

 

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.-Albert Schweitzer

 

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.-Franz Schubert

 

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.-Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

 

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.-Desiderius Erasmus

 

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.-Henry Beston

 

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.-Plato