Our Lives Quotes - Page 11

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  Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nurse, Finished

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• Clearly, the Scripture tells us that we lack the capacity to grasp God's infinite mind or the way He intervenes in our lives. How arrogant of us to think otherwise! Trying to analyze His omnipotence is like an amoeba attempting to comprehend the behavior of man.

  James Dobson

  Men, Thinking, Omnipotence

  James Dobson (1996). “When God Doesn't Make Sense”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

  Tobias Wolff

  Live Life, Expression, Fragmented

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• The spiritual quest is not some added benefit to our life, something you embark on if you have the time and inclination. We are spiritual beings on an earthly journey. Our spirituality makes up our beingness.

  John Bradshaw

  Spiritual, Journey, Benefits

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem”, p.247, Health Communications, Inc.

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• We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

  Brené Brown

  Ideas, People, Culture

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.116, Penguin

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• I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.

  Tim Walberg

  Believe, Government, Cost

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• Why pray for the Kingdom of God to come unless you have in your heart a desire and a willingness to aid in its establishment? Praying for His will to be done and then not trying to live it, gives you a negative answer at once. You would not grant something to a child who showed that attitude towards a request he is making of you. If we pray for the success of some cause or enterprise, manifestly we are in sympathy with it. It is the height of disloyalty to pray for God's will to be done, and then fail to conform our lives to that will.

  David O. McKay

  Children, Attitude, Heart

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• We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.

  R. A. Salvatore

  People, Expectations, Burden

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Exile: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.176, Wizards of the Coast

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• Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Forever, Mind, Rising

  Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose (2003). “Divine Providence”, p.72, The Swedenborg Foundation

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• My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

  Robert Crais

  Struggle, Character, Adversity

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• There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.

  Charlie Pierce

  Hands, Law, Roots

  "The Violence We Live With" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2013.

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• Our lives are a mosaic of little things, like putting a rose in a vase on the table.

  Ingrid Trobisch

  Rose, Mosaics, Tables

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• When one considers the body in relation to dance, it is then that one truly realizes what suffering is: it is a part of our lives. No matter how much we search for it from the outside there is no way we can find it without delving into ourselves.

  Tatsumi Hijikata

  Suffering, Body, Matter

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• Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Artist, Giving, Titles

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• There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.

  Tim Scott

  Party, Recovery, Race

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• Steve Jobs was a visionary in the technology and telecom community. His contributions to innovating communications have forever changed our industry and our lives. He will be greatly missed.

  Steve Largent

  Jobs, Communication, Technology

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• When we are at the worst times of our lives, when we are battling with something, or struggles, whatever it may be, when we are at our highest point as well, when things are going really well, we want somebody to comfort us and be there for us and to say, 'Well done.' That's Jesus!

  Russell Wilson

  Jesus, Struggle, Want

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• 'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.

  Brené Brown

  Crazy, Feelings, Needs

  "Exhaustion is not a status symbol" by Lillian Cunningham, www.washingtonpost.com. October 3, 2012.

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• For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

  Steven Erikson

  Years, Stories, Stones

  Steven Erikson (2011). “The Crippled God: The Malazan Book of the Fallen 10”, p.225, Random House

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• Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked back to the origins of life, to the foundations of culture, and to the deepest levels of the human mind. Myth was not concerned with practical matters, but with meaning. Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair. The mythos of a society provided people with a context that made sense of their day-to-day lives; it directed their attention to the eternal and the universal.

  Karen Armstrong

  Fall, Men, Origin Of Life

  Karen Armstrong (2011). “The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism”, p.14, Ballantine Books

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• I believe [in God], and then there are times when I don't, because the nature of the universe tells me that I'm a fool to believe in something greater than myself. And then there are times when I'm absolutely in awe of the greatness of God, or whatever name you want to attach to whatever it is that's controlling our lives.

  Tom Fontana

  Believe, Greatness, Names

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Work Out, Trying, Life Is

  "Elizabeth Gilbert Serves Up a New Classic". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 24, 2012.

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• Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dream, Couple, Reality

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• We need to believe I think in justice. We need to run our lives as if justice existed... If we abandon a belief that justice will eventually be done, we make this world much more difficult for ourselves.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Running, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• That was exactly why people didn't want to give us any kind of life, because we were threatening their status quo, and they just didn't want to have room for girls playing rock 'n' roll. It bothered them. First, people just tried to get around it by saying, "Oh, wow, isn't that cute? Girls playing rock 'n' roll!," and when we said, "Yeah, right, this isn't a phase; it's what we want to do with our lives," it became, "Oh! You must be a bunch of sluts. You dykes, you whores." That's what it became. Then it became a name-calling contest.

  Joan Jett

  Cute, Girl, Names

  The Onion Interview, www.avclub.com. February 25, 1998.

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