Our Lives Quotes - Page 19

• Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Thinking, Want

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• I have found that, rather than dwelling on the negative, if we will take a step back and consider the blessings in our lives, including seemingly small, sometimes overlooked blessings, we can find greater happiness.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Blessing, Dwelling, Negative

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• We've been gifted with the power of choice...in our actions, our thoughts, and our words. The quality of our lives gets better or worse depending on which direction we go with our choices.

  Shawn Anderson

  Choices, Get Better, Quality

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• Every day, each of us makes a multitude of choices that will impact our lives...the quality of our choices will dictate whether we will struggle in frustration or live an extraordinary life--the life of our dreams.

  Debbie Ford

  Dream, Struggle, Frustration

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• Strangely enough we strengthen love in ourselves when we raise into consciousness the shadow side of our lives. Conversely, when we keep negative feelings out of sight, they smother the love that seems to lie deeper and closer to the real self. This is probably why there is so much pain in not loving. The life that is not able to express the love which is so integral to it grows deformed.

  Elizabeth O'Connor

  Pain, Real, Lying

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• Our heads have a nasty habit of ruining what can make us happiest. And there are times in our lives when you have to put aside what we think is best and do with what you feel is best.

  A. Meredith Walters

  Thinking, Nasty, Habit

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• The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Artist, Imagination, Track

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.153

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• If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lasts, Should, Ennui

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.177

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• We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Imagination, Reform, Should

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.49

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• Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but findher our constant nurse and friend, as do plants and quadrupeds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Nurse, Needs

  Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays”, p.45, University of Georgia Press

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• We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.

  Mary Catherwood

  Expression, May, Dear

  Mary Hartwell Catherwood (2012). “Lazarre”, p.286, tredition

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• For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Humor, Evil, Political

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• We're constantly waking up to what we're about, what we're really doing in our lives. And the fact is, that's painful. But there's no possibility of freedom without this pain.

  Joko Beck

  Pain, Freedom, Wake Up

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• Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Prayer, Spring, Soil

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• I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother. In fact, many times during the day you have to make those decisions...We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom.

  Indra Nooyi

  Family, Leadership, Mom

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• Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.

  William P. Young

  Goodness, I Can, Saved

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• We shall therefore take an appropriately correct view of the origin of our life, if we consider our own embryos to have sprung immediately from those embryos whence our parents were developed, and these from the embryos of their parents, and so on for ever. We should in this way look on the nature of mankind, and perhaps on that of the whole animated creation, as one Continuous System, ever pushing out new branches in all directions, that variously interlace, and that bud into separate lives at every point of interlacement.

  Francis Galton

  Views, Parent, Bud

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• Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.

  R. K. Milholland

  Old Things, Going Away, Needs

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• A meal, however simple, is a moment of intersection. It is at once the most basic, the most fundamental, of our life's activities, maintaining the life of our bodies; shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion, uniting people deeply.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Simple, People, Joy

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• He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

  Seneca the Younger

  Passion, Humanity, Generations

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• Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

  Seneca the Younger

  Squares, Coal, Affection

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• A great many people (not you) do now seem to think that the mere state of being worried is in itself meritorious. I don’t think it is. We must, if it so happens, give our lives for others: but even while we’re doing it, I think we’re meant to enjoy Our Lord and, in Him, our friends, our food, our sleep, our jokes, and the birds’ song and the frosty sunrise.

  C. S. Lewis

  Song, Sleep, Thinking

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• We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Wise, Perseverance, Purpose

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• What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.

  Walter Raleigh

  Life, Mother, Passion

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1965). “Sir Walter Raleigh: Selected Prose and Poetry”

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• The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.

  Ronald Reagan

  Real, Names, Tolerance

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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