quotes tagged with 'life', page 7 
Each of us has a natural right--from God--to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but the extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties?
If every person has the right to defend -- even by force -- his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right -- its reason for existing, its lawfulness -- is based on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute.
Author: Frederic Bastiat, Source: The Law, p. 6If every person has the right to defend -- even by force -- his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right -- its reason for existing, its lawfulness -- is based on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute.
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
Author: Frederic Bastiat, Source: The Law, p. 6Our life is frittered away by detail...simplify, simplify.
Author: Henry David Thoreau, Source: unknownIf we say that early death is a calamity, disaster, or tragedy, would it not be saying that mortality is preferable to earlier entrance into the spirit world and to eventual salvation and exaltation? If mortality be the perfect state, then death would be a frustration, but the gospel teaches us there is no tragedy in death, but only in sin.
We know so little. Our judgment is so limited. We judge the Lord often with less wisdom than does our youngest child weigh our decisions.
Author: Elder Spencer W. Kimball, Source: “Tragedy or Destiny”, 1955 at a devotional assembly at Brigham...We know so little. Our judgment is so limited. We judge the Lord often with less wisdom than does our youngest child weigh our decisions.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952),, Source: Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines" Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Author: Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956),, Source: The Mother, 1932 The meaning of life lies in two major areas: your personal perfection and service to other people. You can serve while you are moving toward perfection, and you can move toward perfection by serving people.
Author: Leo Tolstoy, Source: Meaning of LifeA baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Author: Carl Sandburg, Source: unknownThe relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationships we have with ourselves.
Author: Greg Anderson, Source: Greg Anderson"Self–esteem means that no opinion and no judgment are so vitally critical to your own growth and development as that which you hold of yourself."
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