Our Lives Quotes - Page 12

• Often poetry, especially the sort of poetry I write, is concerned with looking at the borders between the sensual and the spiritual and seeing them as divided, equivocal, that mystery somehow can break in to the ordinary. And we read poetry I think in part, to gain a sense of that intimacy with things that we can't understand that are unable to be understood but that buoy up our lives.

  Kevin Hart

  Spiritual, Writing, Thinking

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

  John Legend

  Thinking, Decision, Important

  "John Legend gets down and dirty". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. October 30, 2008.

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• Together with the rise of the internet, September 11 and its aftermath has changed most of our lives.

  Hedi Slimane

  September 11, Together, Aftermath

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Every single day, we could be in a motorcar accident, so, we have to carry on with our lives, and not imagine terror around every corner.

  Jane Goodall

  Imagine, Car Accident, Terror

  "Dr. Jane Goodall: Healing and possibility of peace". Live chat, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2001.

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• It's so easy to demagogue the issue and make someone who speaks out against the internal-combustion engine sound like an insane communist, when the truth is that the internal-combustion engine is the biggest threat to my life in the next 25 years, in terms of what it's doing to our environment and how it's depleting the ozone layer and so forth.

  Bill Maher

  Speaks Out, Issues, Ozone

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In the South, our lives kind of revolve around food and taking care of people with food. If someone was sick, or if they had had a baby, or if they had lost a loved one, or even if they lost a job, my momma was at their door with pie or a cake or something to help them feel better.

  Kimberly Schlapman

  Baby, Jobs, Feel Better

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.

  Bell Hooks

  Stress, Thinking, Capacity

  "The BK Nation INTERVIEW with bell hooks". Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. February 28, 2014.

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• The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.

  Bell Hooks

  Self Esteem, Reality, Healthy

  "The BK Nation INTERVIEW with bell hooks". Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. February 28, 2014.

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• Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Single Mom, Looks, Moments

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from May 06, 2013

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• We forget that we create the situations, then we give our power away by blaming the other person for our frustration. No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for “we” are the only thinkers in our mind. We create our experiences, our reality, and everyone in it. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our mind, we will find it in our lives.

  Louise Hay

  Frustration, Reality, Giving

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• We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Years, Childhood, Fabulous

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• Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.

  Teresa Mummert

  Forgotten, Forgiven, Written Word

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• But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is unbearable. Adults order children to smile in the photos, involve them in the lie, so we smile, we feign happiness.

  Jo Nesbo

  Children, Lying, Order

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• As those who are chosen, blessed, broken, and given, we are called to live our lives with a deep inner joy and peace. It is the life of the Beloved, lived in a world constantly trying to convince us that the burden is on us to prove that we are worthy of being loved.

  Henri Nouwen

  Blessed, Convince Us, Broken

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• What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.

  Ken Robinson

  Quality, Here And Now, Evolve

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.51, John Wiley & Sons

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• Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers.

  Reid Hoffman

  Opportunity, Careers, Progress

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• What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

  Richard Bach

  Adventure, Odds, Risk

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• But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Idols, Function, Ifs

  Nancy Pearcey (2015). “Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes”, p.37, David C Cook

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• Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reintegrate into our lives and serve us again as productive members of our civilian community.

  Charles Rangel

  Mean, Our Veterans, Community

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• Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.

  Michael Chabon

  Fire, Weather, Rust

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• The best work we can all do is create the highest vision possible for our lives and be led by that vision to the greatest good.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Eye, Vision, Blindness

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• We can bring brilliant flowers of victory to bloom in our lives when we weather the hardships of winter and emerge triumphant based on our practice of the Mystic Law. The key to victories lies in how hard we struggle when we are in winter, how wisely we use this time and how meaningful we live each day confident that spring will definitely come.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Meaningful, Lying, Spring

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• Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Worst Situation, Goal, Challenges

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• I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.

  Simon Schama

  Thinking, Space, People

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• The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on

  Tucker Max

  Running, Easter, Children

  Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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