Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
Quote by D. H. Lawrence
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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D. H. Lawrence Quotes
- How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
- But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
- Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
- Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
- I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.
- The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
- But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.
- The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
- The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
- Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
Best Quotes
- I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.
- The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
- The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
- If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.
- Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
- We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.
- All great peoples are conservative.
- Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
- Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.