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  • Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • Swallow the stars until you are one with the universe, with all-pervading universal life. -- Soen Nakagawa
  • History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, Prana to every body cell.The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the body a greater supply of the Universal life energy. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are ever filled by another and another generation; renewing the face of the earth, and the bosom of the deep, with endless successions of life and happiness. -- William Buckland
  • This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of, the shift of our emphasis to, the universal life that throbs and celebrates its victory in the very kiss of our own annihilation, this amor fati, 'love of fate,' love of the fate that is inevitably death, constitutes the experience of the tragic art... -- Joseph Campbell
  • Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. -- Immanuel Kant
  • Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it. -- Mary Ritter Beard
  • May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. -- Immanuel Kant
  • If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do. -- Nas
  • Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars. -- Wentworth Miller
  • Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. -- Martin Amis
  • The truths that are found in the Bible are universal truths. And it shapes who you are and guides you throughout your life. -- Ernie Hudson
  • I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin. -- Alexander Mackenzie
  • The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application. -- Arthur Middleton
  • Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to run at different speeds in different species. -- Cynthia Kenyon
  • Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by enabling individuals to design and manufacture things. -- Hod Lipson
  • I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times. -- Brie Larson
  • There's something about approaching universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere, and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life. -- Jim Croce
  • Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. -- Dalai Lama
  • I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful. -- George Hickenlooper
  • If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. -- Piet Mondrian
  • It is often said that having gone through any kind of suffering tends to makes you appreciate life more and live more in the present. I'm not sure how universal or long-lasting these effects really are. -- Julian Baggini
  • Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles. -- Juan Antonio Samaranch
  • I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life. -- Josh Gad
  • Laughter is the joyous universal evergreen of life! -- Abraham Lincoln
  • In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life -- Philip Johnson
  • A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism. -- Machado de Assis
  • Keep searchin' for your mystery note on the universal piano of life. -- Rahsaan Roland Kirk
  • Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. -- Andrew Sachs
  • Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life. -- Paulo Coelho
  • Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life. -- Paracelsus
  • Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection! -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life. -- Emile M. Cioran
  • We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • When you make the U-turn to the Universal Presence and apply the Universal practices and principles, your life is changed. -- Michael Beckwith
  • This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. -- Marilyn Monroe
  • There's a couple of universal principles in life. One is, don't ever open a restaurant. One out of every two fails. -- Susan Powter
  • Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling. -- Lawren Harris
  • Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction. -- Melody Beattie
  • The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person's life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws. -- Norman Vincent Peale
  • The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring. -- Doreen Valiente
  • I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting. -- Beth Orton
  • Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination. -- Robert Genn
  • A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed. -- Steve McCurry
  • Prayer is a universal phenomenon in the soul-life of man. It is the soul's reaction to the terrors and joys, the uncertainties and dreams of life. -- Joseph Hertz
  • One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
  • The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent. -- Jane Addams
  • If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility -- Dalai Lama
  • High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional. -- Kami Garcia
  • When we are conscious of our personal uniqueness and our universal nature we express ourselves creatively. In this way we fulfill our dreams and our life purpose. -- Andrew Schneider
  • The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion. -- Scott Kahn
  • Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation. -- Edwin S. Shneidman
  • Life is a continual flow of events, streaming in from the universal stream of consciousness in such a way that it exactly matches our own stream of consciousness. -- Neale Donald Walsch
  • Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding. -- Milan Kundera
  • Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting. -- Tristan Tzara
  • I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade. -- Bret Easton Ellis
  • Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles. -- Pierre de Coubertin
  • There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge. -- Swami Paramananda
  • Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation. -- Adam Smith
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