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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. -- Booker T. Washington
I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one. -- Ryan Shawcross
I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again. -- George Carlin
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
There will be many fine and wonderful men and women of all races and creeds-and of no religious creeds at all-who will lead decent and useful lives. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life. -- Tryon Edwards
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other. -- Helen Keller
To give up faith in Christ is to give up faith in humanity; to believe in Christ is to believe in the redeption and final glorification of men; and this faith is the best inspiration to a holy and useful life for the good of our race of the glory of God. -- Philip Schaff
A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and thus be equally prepared at maturity to enter upon active, responsible and useful lives. . . . In so doing, it strikes a fatal blow at . . . the most demoralizing of all monopolies. . . educational superiority. -- Victoria Woodhull
Draw nigh to God, so that you may dread the grave as little as your bed. Draw nigh to God, that you may live a happy and useful life. Drawing nigh to God is the most concentrated energy of the soul. Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings. -- D. A. Carson
As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life. -- Sylvia Earle
Life is made up not necessarily of great sacrifices or high-level duties but of little things. The smiles, the kindnesses, the commitments and obligations and responsibilities that are given habitually and lovingly are the blessings that win and preserve the heart and bring comfort to one's self as we as to others. This is the ministry of service performed by every useful life. -- John Templeton
It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world. -- Ernest A. Fitzgerald
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon
Seeing the funny side of life is useful, and I've always had a sense of humour. -- Henry Allingham
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. -- Antisthenes
The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good. -- Dalai Lama
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Bernard Shaw
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life. -- Mary Oliver
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. -- Anatole France
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other. -- Freya Stark
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. -- David Viscott
The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002. -- Jenny Shipley
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up. -- Jill Lepore
Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own. -- Anthony Daniels
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The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs. -- Alfred P. Sloan
A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life. -- Saint Ambrose
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. -- Dalai Lama
Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life. -- Julia Cameron
Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble. -- Patanjali
True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. -- Oscar Wilde
The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men. -- Anthony Trollope
Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared. -- Dan Millman
A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless. -- Walter Lippmann
On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted. -- Dag Hammarskjold
It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research. -- Isaac Asimov
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life. -- Jane Austen
There is a lot of information out there. To the degree that your life changes, it is made useful or useless. -- Laurence Gartel
I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority. -- Tony Blankley
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. -- T. S. Eliot
There are many roads that lead to a happy joyful life but two of the most useful are called kindness and compassion". -- Tom Hackett
Continual improvisation on a theme is a more useful way to think of how to bring the various parts of life together. -- Stewart D. Friedman
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other -- Freya Stark
I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society. -- Samuel Johnson
Be as useful as a tree! Give life to others; be shelter to everyone; grant fruits to all! Be good like a tree! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday life ... -- Sam Maloof
The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial. -- Edward Tufte
I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world. -- Armand Hammer
It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life. -- B. F. Skinner
In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness. -- Henri Nouwen
Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ. -- Robert Baden-Powell
Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. -- David Viscott
A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations. -- Michel de Montaigne
Do not weep, for I shall be more useful to you after my death and I shall help you then more effectively than during my life. -- Saint Dominic
Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action. -- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life. -- Milton S. Hershey
To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for. -- Angelina Jolie
The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Good men are a bit like border collies: we're happiest when we're useful. That's why the life of a good man involves constant striving for direction and meaning. -- Shawn T. Smith
There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky

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