Our Lives Quotes - Page 30

• I think that everything in the world around us is a reflection of what is going on inside of us. So each of us as an individual creates a life - we draw to us certain people and events and circumstances that reflect what's going on inside of us, so we can literally look at our life and see a mirror of our own consciousness. And if that's true on an individual level, it's also true that what's going on in the world in a bigger way is a reflection of the collective consciousness.

  Shakti Gawain

  Reflection, Thinking, Mirrors

  "An Interview with Shakti Gawain about Transformation, Locally and Globally". Lotus Guide Interview, www.lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being, without a focus or a goal. At least a certain amount in our lives - we don't need to do half and half; it's okay if we're doing a lot of doing, we just need some being mixed in.

  Shakti Gawain

  Goal, Focus, Needs

  "An Interview with Shakti Gawain about Transformation, Locally and Globally". Lotus Guide Interview, www.lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.

  Bernie Siegel

  Meaningful, Meaning Of Life, Alive

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• My husband and I have always incorporated things into our life that reduce stress. We're very careful with our health. We go to bed early. In this job, fatigue would be very detrimental! We've always eaten very healthily; now it's really particularly easy because we have a chef.

  Laura Bush

  Jobs, Husband, Stress

  "Laura Bush Wants to Save Your Life". Interview, www.glamour.com. January 3, 2008.

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• I think that one of the many advantages of death accruing over a long period of time is that you do have time to meet a lot of other people who are going through similar situations and one of the great delights of our life actually was sitting around in labs waiting for the results of tests and talking to other people who were waiting to find out whether their cancer numbers were going in the right direction or not.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Cancer, Thinking, Numbers

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.

  William James

  Philosophy, Reflection, Perception

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.149, Xist Publishing

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• Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.

  George A. Sheehan

  Writing, Roots, Knows

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• The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love God simply because doing so will produce many consolations in our life. We must enter a true relationship, were we fall in love not with His benefits, but with Him.

  Robert Barron

  Falling In Love, Self, Benefits

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• I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe, Stories, Moments

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2014.

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• Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a whirlpool blending of the objective and the personal. The result is a set of beliefs - both conscious and unconscious - that guide us in interpreting all the events of our lives.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Events, Belief, Conscious

  Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow (2011). “War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not”, p.270, Harmony

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• Without death, our lives would have no meaning. Death frames our end for us and also puts a value on things.

  Richard Leider

  Ends, Values

  Richard Leider, David A. Shapiro (2004). “Claiming Your Place at the Fire: Living the Second Half of Your Life on Purpose”, p.131, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• At the end of our life, we ought to be able to look back over it from our deathbed and know somehow the world is a better place because we lived, we loved, we were other-centered, other-focused.

  Joe Ehrmann

  Looks, World, Able

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• Our task is to relate our lives to God, and let Him work through us.

  Henry Blackaby

  Tasks, Relate

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• Our lives are also fed by kind words and gracious behaviour. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies. Our spirits are richly fed on compliments just as our bodies are on whole wheat bread.

  Edward M Hays

  Simple, Expression, Behaviour

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• Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Missing

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness”, p.74, Bantam

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• We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.

  Holland Cotter

  Beautiful, Past, Promise

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• The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.

  Stephen Fry

  Blessing, Iron, Church

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• If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Enemy, Plot, Violence

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• Our life must have an aim, but we must also ensure that the direction we take is a good one.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Aim

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• Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Expectations

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• Life does not wait: Whether we spend our lives meaningfully or not, the time will be used up moment by moment.

  Dalai Lama

  Waiting, Meaning Of Life, Doe

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• It turns out inconvenience was a really important part of our lives, and we didn't realize it.

  Siva Vaidhyanathan

  Important, Realizing, Inconvenience

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• If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any nation but to truth and goodness. The idea of patriotism would have no place either in our dictionaries or our lives.

  Max Eastman

  Ideas, Loyal, Goodness

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• The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.

  Terry Taylor

  Gratitude, Angel, Giving

  Terry Lynn Taylor (1996). “Angel Days”, Ballantine Books

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• Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Dream, Treasure, Life Is

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