Our Lives Quotes - Page 13

• We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.

  Bill W.

  Believe, Alcohol, Sanity

  Alcoholics Anonymous (1939). The first two of the "Twelve Steps" that form the program of Alcoholics Anonymous to combat alcoholism.

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• Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no longer fed by anything but sudden changes and constantly renewed stimuli. We can no longer bear anything that lasts. We no longer know how to make boredom bear fruit. So the whole question comes down to this: can the human mind master what the human mind has made?

  Paul Valery

  Real, Boredom, People

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• If were honest, we all have some measure of wrong believing in our lives. If you dont believe this, all you need to do is ask yourself, Have I often felt anxious, worried, or fearful that the worst would happen to me and my loved ones?

  Joseph Prince

  Believe, Needs, Honest

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• Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?

  Philip K. Dick

  Order, Gaining Power, Life Is

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

  Guy Finley

  Eye, Promise, Tasks

  "Step Into True Wholeness" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

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• I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

  Nate Silver

  Thinking, People, Feels

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• Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

  Clay Shirky

  Causes, Social, Cause And Effect

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

  Jason Silva

  Moving, Fate, Thinking

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• If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Zoos, Zebras, Disappointment

  "Joy in the Merely Real". Summary of the Joy In The Merely Real sequence, wiki.lesswrong.com. October 2009.

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• What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Giving, Serenity, Contentment

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• Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God is the only game in town. All other roads are dead ends. Since we must give our all to the one true God, we must not give any part to idols, to the many false gods that now bite away at our lives.

  Peter Kreeft

  Prayer, Idols, Practice

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.93, Ignatius Press

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• I think we all want something to knock us on the head and change our lives.

  Neil Burger

  Thinking, Want Something, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Many times we say Jesus is first in our life, and i get that, but Jesus should not be first, He should be center of everything.

  Israel Houghton

  Jesus, Firsts, Should

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• I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many ways. I would say that certainly the stories of the day appear in the work - I just have never gone so far as to say, well, this particular event could influence a plot of an entire book.

  Michael Koryta

  Book, Inspiration, Ideas

  "Michael Connelly on the Book He Had To Stop Writing". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.bookish.com. February 4, 2013.

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• Our lives feel like these epochs, but really we are dust in the wind.

  Justin Vernon

  Dust, Wind, Feels

  "Bon Iver's Justin Vernon Talks About His Band's New Album". Interview with Jess Gitner, www.npr.org. June 22, 2011.

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• In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

  Anthony Doerr

  Memories, Past, Stories

  Anthony Doerr (2010). “About Grace: A Novel”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum of horticultural wisdom and practical advice, Our Life in Gardens is at once literate, learned, sensible, and, often, sheer luscious poetry. There are delights to be sampled on every page. From a cultivated life, they have brought forth, once again, a cultivated book.

  Philip Gambone

  Book, Garden, Years

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• Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.

  Simon Van Booy

  Reading, Way, Rooms

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• The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

  Conor McPherson

  Real, Men, Leaving

  "So there's these three Irishmen". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.

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• One of our jobs is to keep women working, which we do by keeping women coming to the movies. And doing that means making good, smart, often funny movies that women can identify with-with terrific dialogue we all remember and cherish, and stories that illuminate our lives and decisions and turning points.

  Lynda Obst

  Jobs, Smart, Mean

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• We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams.

  Christine Caine

  Dream, Needs, Rooms

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• Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Running, Country, People

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• I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.

  Paul Engle

  Horse, Survival, Age

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• The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of shape about it.

  Paul Henderson

  Shapes, Lord, Bent

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• It is so important that our lives are built not on our feelings or circumstances, but on the word of God, and songs can really help us to meditate on and retain truth. I know from the correspondence I regularly receive that if you can express in songs the profound truth of the gospel in a poetic yet accessible way, they really can have an impact in people's lives.

  Stuart Townend

  Song, Impact, People

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