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Life is far more interesting than it needs to be, because the forces that guide it are not merely practical. — David Rothenberg

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude. — C.S. Lewis

For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation. — Vita Sackville-West

No one can be free unless he is independent. — Maria Montessori

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life. — Henry Moore

If the time to begin something new always came with a sign, our life would be like a non stop advertising campaign! — Trishna Damodar

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life. — Henry Ward Beecher

Yoga is your direct intimacy with the nurturing power of Life. It is the practical means adapted to personal needs, age, health and all cultures. — Mark Whitwell

To live the practical aspect of life as part of our schooling is formidable, but to adopt living it as our ultimate goal is absurd. — Samael Aun Weor

I have a wife, a son, and I've had some practical life experience. — Alex Meraz

My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life. — Diane Keaton

I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life. — Richelle Mead

We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules. — Paulo Coelho

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons. — James MacGregor Burns

Philip had a practical outlook and he grew impatient with the theories which resulted in no action. — W. Somerset Maugham

Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction. — Laozi

And she realized, standing there, that in all her practical plans for marriage, she'd never thought about the simple pleasure of being loved. — Jude Watson

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use. — E. M. Forster

The Bible has the answers to our everyday life. Many times people don't realize how practical it is. — Joyce Meyer

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal. — Henry Rollins

TO be practical not merely means to steal when everybody steals but to act with wits and wisdom ... — Ranu Das

Shyness, inexhaustible source of misfortunes in practical life, is the direct cause, indeed unique, each inner wealth. — Emil Cioran

Our prayers can and should be focused on the practical, everyday struggles of life. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny. — William James

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that. — Marcy Kaptur

Bring real and practical life experience to the people — Sunday Adelaja

Be Practical. That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life. — Julien Benda

I'm interested in using science to solve practical problems of our daily life. — Anonymous

Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results. — Franz Kafka

Live your life as a practical example to others — Sunday Adelaja

I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living. — Kim Krizan

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice. — Samuel Alexander

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life. — Julian Barnes

I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want. — Jude Deveraux

For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life. — Jenny Diski

In order to be successful, Teenagers need to be practical as challenges they are faceing in modern life are numerous and complex. — Kishore Bansal

Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet. — Jeannette Walls

Sometimes, the most practical thing to do is to think. — Raheel Farooq

Only use the mind for practical ways in life. Use your deep inner body energy, observation and breath to glide through life. — Matthew Donnelly

I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations. — Daniil Kharms

Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life. — James C. Collins

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead. — Arnold J. Toynbee

Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough. — Stephanie Perkins

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation. — George Earle Buckle

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself. — D.T. Suzuki

One should be selfish bt only getting things which he deserves not what he likes or suits him,,, — Kish

Filled with great advice, practical support, and steamy, imaginative suggestions for how to have an exciting, challenging, satisfying sex life. — Karen X. Tulchinsky

The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners. — James Cook

Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis. — Oli Anderson

To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life. — William Osler

Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith. — Jonathan Edwards

Learning to "find my place in the world" translates in the practical language of life as "finding my little slot in the big State machine. — Anna Sofia Botkin

The lessons of the Bible have a moral and religious influence on the character, as they are brought into the practical life. Timothy — Ellen G. White

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life — William James

All my devotion is an insult to God unless every bit of my practical life squares with Jesus Christ's demands. — Eric Ludy

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. — Frank Herbert

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life. — Thomas Huxley

Life is too short not to do a little practical joking. — Krista Allen

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one. — Rick Riordan

I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry. — Robert A. Heinlein

The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds. — Hakeem Olajuwon

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. — Thomas Henry Huxley

Consists of knowledge, judgment, creativity, and practical skills as enacted in real life — Anonymous

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ. — William Bernbach

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth. — Baruch Spinoza

The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer. — Boyd K. Packer

Take practical and rational steps in maximizing your time — Sunday Adelaja

I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes. — Danielle Steel

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically. — Arthur Schnitzler

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life. — Tryon Edwards

Be practical,
be skillful,
be teachable,
and you will be successful. — Matshona Dhliwayo