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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. -- Samuel Butler
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. -- Albert Schweitzer
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion. -- Kofi Annan
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. -- George Santayana
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude -- William Wordsworth
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. -- Joseph Addison
All human life can be found in an airport. -- David Walliams
Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life. -- Nathan Deal
Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants. -- Lauren Conrad
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. -- Orrin Hatch
What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it. -- Mark Twain
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. -- Francis Bacon
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. -- Thomas Jefferson
Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value. -- Desmond Tutu
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. -- Gautama Buddha
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. -- Kurt Vonnegut
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. -- Aristotle
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. -- Joseph Addison
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. -- Henry James
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. -- John F. Kennedy
Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives. -- Albert Schweitzer
The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self. -- Anatole Broyard
For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable. -- Edgar Ramirez
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. -- D. Elton Trueblood
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. -- Mortimer Adler
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. -- Ambrose Bierce
It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature. -- Ivan Pavlov
When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character. -- E. Stanley Jones
It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life. -- Saxby Chambliss
Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of the soul is peripheral, mere appendix to the material phenomena of nature. -- Rudolf Christoph Eucken
While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish. -- Nathan Deal
If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be. -- William Allen White
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment. -- Felix Adler
We give antibiotics to people when they're dying or when they're not well; that's acting God. I mean, acting God is using the tools of creation to try and improve human life, human existence. I don't think that that's a huge problem. -- Robert Winston
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. -- Buddha
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. -- Buddha
The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible. -- Christopher Monckton
Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can't get it back. -- Rush Limbaugh
In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices. -- Teju Cole
Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing our lives of meaning, it instills an appreciation for the beautiful, enduring, and ultimately triumphant fabric of life that covers our planet. Understanding that doesn't demean human life - it enhances it. -- Kenneth R. Miller
I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life. -- Pope Francis
Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it be. The existence of movement unavoidably implies a body which is being moved and a force which is moving it. Hence, wherever there is life, there is a mass moved by a force. All mass possesses inertia; all force tends to persist. -- Nikola Tesla
Human life is beyond comprehension. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
All human life is precious. -- George W. Bush
Human life is fiction's only theme. -- Eudora Welty
Sports is human life in microcosm. -- Howard Cosell
A kiss may ruin a human life -- Oscar Wilde
We must make working life more human. -- Goran Persson
Nothing in human life is inherently private. -- Terry Eagleton
Human life is too difficult for people. -- Paul Engle
Miracles do happen in every human life. -- Sri Chinmoy
Sympathy is the charm of human life ... -- Grace Aguilar
We're all human and life is complicated. -- Mark Kozelek
Communal well-being is central to human life. -- Cat Stevens
Only through communication can human life hold meaning. -- Paulo Freire
In human life, economics precedes politics or culture. -- Park Geun-hye
Justice is inseparable from truth in human life. -- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Human life commences at the time of conception. -- Landrum Shettles
The basic condition of human life is happiness. -- Dalai Lama
Hope is an essential constituent of human life. -- Benjamin Franklin
Sports is the toy department of human life. -- Howard Cosell
The true object of human life is play. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Custom is the great guide to human life. -- David Hume
Love is the true condition of human life. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
A human life is a schooling for eternity. -- Gottfried Keller
Human life must be some form of mistake. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
A human life is a schooling for eternity -- Gottfried Keller
Nerds are far more interesting human in later life. -- Alyson Hannigan
Individuality is very important for a full human life... -- Dalai Lama
A human life is a story told by God. -- Hans Christian Andersen
Only photography has been able to divide human life -- Eadweard Muybridge
A human life is just a heartbeat in heaven. -- Robin Williams
The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation. -- John Ortberg
The cow is the purest type of sub-human life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm a human being, god-dammit. My life has value! -- Paddy Chayefsky
How much of human life is lost in waiting. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. -- Robert J. Havighurst
Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. -- Julia Cameron
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What would human life be without forests, those natural cities? -- Henry David Thoreau
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life. -- Woodrow Wilson
Thirst after body is the great bane of human life. -- Swami Vivekananda
The right to life is the first among human rights. -- Pope Francis
We do have the precious opportunity of this human life. -- Tenzin Palmo
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She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life. -- Rudyard Kipling
A human being is a life branching out from God -- Masahisa Goi
Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life. -- Coretta Scott King
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness -- Julia Cameron
Life is a spiritual entitlement, not a human mundated privilege. -- Wayne Chirisa
Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder. -- Iris Murdoch
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. -- Joseph Campbell
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human. -- Luis Barragan
If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning. -- Immanuel Kant
Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect. -- Tony Abbott
Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life. -- Marcus Garvey
I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again. -- Aileen Wuornos
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. -- Henry James
The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies. -- Aldous Huxley
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. -- Orson Scott Card
Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait -- Blaise Cendrars
The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human. -- Henry Miller
I have no wish to take life, not even human life -- George Orwell
The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being. -- Plato
A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life. -- Pliny the Elder
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. -- Alexander Smith
Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Human life is limited but I would like to live forever. -- Yukio Mishima
Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? -- Thornton Wilder
Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. -- Michael Ende
On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing. -- Dalai Lama
Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment. -- Naoto Fukasawa
Celebrations infuse life with passion and purpose. They summon the human spirit. -- Terrence E. Deal
The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love. -- Ramakrishna
Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible. -- W. H. Auden
In its present terms, the global system values property over human life. -- William Greider

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