Our Lives Quotes - Page 20

• Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Demand, Littles, Sometimes

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• A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Reading, Delight, Dull

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• Good is that darkening of our lives,
  Which only God can brighten;
  But better still that hopeless load,
  Which none but God can lighten.

  Frederick William Faber

  Grief, Hopeless, Darkening

  Frederick William Faber (1875). “Hymns”, p.231

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• Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Divine, Eternal

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• The very act of thinking about power in our lives and experiences creates a process of revelation and self-analysis that may even make us look at ourselves in a new light... thinking about power and its complex manifestations may not simply lead to a better understanding of the abstract complexities of society, but may have an effect on one?s own image and identity. Perhaps a warning label should be placed on the cover.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Thinking, Self, Light

  Kenneth E. Boulding (1990). “Three Faces of Power”, p.259, SAGE

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• Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite luxury of Socialism--that true Socialism which is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners. In the democracy of the caffè or the street the great question of our life has been solved, and the brotherhood of man is a reality. But it is accomplished at the expense of the sisterhood of women.

  E. M. Forster

  Character, Reality, Sisterhood

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Where Angels Fear to Tread: England Literature”, p.31, 谷月社

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• I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with my family in the back of a limousine and someone cracking a joke and us just hysterically belly laughing. It's how we always dealt with tragedy in our lives and I think it's such a healthy way to deal with sadness.

  Zach Braff

  Memories, Home, Sadness

  "'Scrubs' star writes what he knows" by Stephanie Snipes, www.cnn.com. August 16, 2004.

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• For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sympathy, Lying, Ebb And Flow

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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• However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology, fate . . . until we can actually live in a society where mothers and children genuinely matter, ours is an essentially powerless responsibility. Mothers carry out most of the work orders, but most of the rules governing our lives are shaped by outside influences.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Children, Responsibility

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• The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Lying, Quality, Consciousness

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Understanding Our Mind”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Happy, Mean

  "Uncle Vanya". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

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• Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Dream, Spiritual

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• ... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Investment Success, Names

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• There is no secret to how to attain prosperity. The Universe supports and rewards us for taking risks on things that matter to the Universe. When we remember this, the mysteries about prosperity disappear, and prosperity stands explained. Prosperity will then manifest itself easily provided the Universe agrees that we are doing the right things in our lives to deserve this prosperity.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Support, Risk, Secret

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• If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their souls until the contours of our own are familiar to us.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Dark, Artist, Light

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• Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Life, Giving, Trying

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• The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Care, Safe, Divine

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1623, Barbour Publishing

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• Astrology ... makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we'll see. Astrologers don't seek causes at all, for a good reason: There isn't any cause to astrology. If you look for some underlying reason, some connection between the stars and planets and our lives, you won't find any. For astrology to sell, buyers must not seek out the fundamental principles behind it, because if they do they'll see that there is none.

  Phil Plait

  Stars, Astrology, Connections

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• Autumn is the Sabbath of the year; the time to think of all the past: nature's calm twilight before the darkness. It does make all men think at times; even the lightest and the worst. The distant days of our springtime, our faded summer, comes over us like a dream. We sit in the evening of our life in tender musings, and all that has been takes shadowy form again, and passes through the thoughts.

  Cunningham Geikie

  Summer, Dream, Twilight

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• Ours is the one ever-present voice in our lives. Therefore, it is crucial that our self-talk instill confidence within us and is supportive, not submerging, and that our attitudes toward ourselves help keep our spirits afloat through acceptance and trust. We are our own most important and influential buoy.

  Sue Thoele

  Confidence, Attitude, Acceptance

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• A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it....In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Love, Life, Weed

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• We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it--to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, War, Adversity

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• But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Destiny, Challenges, Society

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Taste, Irregularity, Occasions

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.158

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• Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Energy, Action, Features

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