Our Lives Quotes - Page 18

• We're fascinated by things that scare us, and one of the things that scares us is violence. Violence exists. It's a real part of our lives. We are obsessed with what we're scared of, but it certainly doesn't define us.

  Ethan Hawke

  Real, Scare, Violence

  "Ethan Hawke Talks THE PURGE, Making Genre Movies, What the Film Says about Society, Violence in the Media, the Rating System, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• The happiest moments in our life aren't "Oh I got a new hat or a wonderful silvery object, some glistening bauble." But it's when you connect with another human being. If you can find the $18 in your pocket, you are purchasing dreams with that money.

  Russell Brand

  Dream, Hats, Pockets

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2011.

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• We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.

  William H. Macy

  Adversity, People, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.

  Matthew Lillard

  Drama, Thinking, People

  "Matthew Lillard Talks FAT KID RULES THE WORLD, Becoming a Director, the Film’s Road to Development and Plans for Future Directorial Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.

  Julie Delpy

  Differences, Confusion, Add

  "Julie Delpy Talks 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK, Casting Chris Rock, Her Writing Process, Her Comedic Influences and Future Projects". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 10, 2012.

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• You know, there's a certain irony in the fact that our lives and perhaps the lives of everyone on Earth may depend on Captain Patterson's sex appeal.

  Charles Beaumont

  Sex, Men, Earth

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• Sometimes love is a wound that opens and closes, opens and closes, all our lives.

  Claire Vaye Watkins

  Love Is, Sometimes, Time Love

  Claire Vaye Watkins (2012). “Battleborn”, p.28, Granta Books

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• When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.

  George Eliot

  Drama, Thinking, Foam

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6533, Delphi Classics

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• When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, 'Here, I guess, since this is where I am.'

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Feet, Looks, Want

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.56, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Ninety percent of what most yoga teachers do is teach asana practice. While asana discharges stress and so forth, it was never intended to be a standalone practice. The true intent of yoga is personal transformation. What we get out of the privilege of teaching prisoners is the opportunity to focus on our own personal development. You can be of service, and, while helping others transform their lives, you have the deeper opportunity to transform your own. What we teach in prison is how we live our lives.

  James Fox

  Teacher, Stress, Teaching

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• Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.

  Bob Goff

  Beautiful, Titles, Embrace

  Twitter post from Oct 28, 2014

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• At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.

  Gary David Goldberg

  Cutting, Blessing, Air

  "March Madness and the Successful Sitcom" by Gary David Goldberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2008.

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• The righteousness of God's Kingdom is the product of God's reign in the human heart. God must reign in our lives now if we are to enter the Kingdom tomorrow.

  George Eldon Ladd

  Heart, Kingdoms, Reign

  George Eldon Ladd (1959). “The Gospel of the Kingdom: Scriptural Studies in the Kingdom of God”, p.83, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• If relationships matter most then [at the end of our lives], shouldn't they matter most now?

  Max Lucado

  Matter, Ends, Ifs

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• Most of us live our lives desperately trying to conceal the anguishing gap between our polished, aspirational, representational selves and our real, human, deeply flawed selves. Dunham lives hers in that gap, welcomes the rest of the world into it with boundless openheartedness, and writes about it with the kind of profound self-awareness and self-compassion that invite us to inhabit our own gaps and maybe even embrace them a little bit more, anguish over them a little bit less.

  Maria Popova

  Real, Writing, Compassion

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• the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.

  Genesis P-Orridge

  Responsibility, Enemy, Our Actions

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• Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

  William Moulton Marston

  Enough, Currents, Stifling

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• God Is Great. If these three words together enshrine in our mind, heart and soul, then there is never worry, anxiety nor a fear of failure in our life.

  Anuj

  Heart, Worry, Anxiety

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• We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

  Beau Willimon

  Struggle, Love Life, Our Love

  "Watch My Show: House of Cards' Beau Willimon Answers Our Showrunner Survey". Interview with Michael Schneider, www.tvguide.com. March 13, 2013.

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• The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.

  Richard Rohr

  Gratitude, Movement, Half

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• It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nerves, Degenerates, Language

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Broken, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.17, Yale University Press

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• What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Stars, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.286, Delphi Classics

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• It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking forward to the strenuous sortie of the morrow.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Struggle, Soldier

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.163, David M Gross

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• Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Fighting, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.59, Cosimo, Inc.

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