human life quotes

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

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.