#usefulness

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#life #purpose-of-life #time #usefulness #waste

A life placed in the hands of God will be used by Him. ↗

— Matilda Wrede

#life #usefulness #life

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed. ↗

— Criss Jami

#business #businesses #careers #college #decisions

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

#person #quite #society #their #usefulness

The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important. ↗

— David F. Houston

#barley #directly #ease #feed #food

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. ↗

— John Cheever

#discover #life #make #need #sense

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#depended #human #human lives #judged #lives

My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#another #anxious #become #discipline #important

The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country. ↗

— David F. Houston

#country #food #human #only #recently

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#dream #either #excellence #happiness #into