Our Lives Quotes - Page 34

• Our life has become so economic and practical in its orientation that, as you get older, the claims of the moment upon you are so great, you hardly know where the hell you are, or what it is you intended. You are always doing something that is required of you. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Trying, Bliss, Hell

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.115, Anchor

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• We can't tell our life from our wish

  Randall Jarrell

  Wish

  Randall Jarrell, “A Man Meets A Woman In The Street”

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• The problem of money dogs our steps throughout the whole of our lives, exerting a pressure that, in its way, is as powerful and insistent as any other problem of human existence. And it haunts the spiritual search as well.

  Jacob Needleman

  Spiritual, Dog, Powerful

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• If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Progress, Culture

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies gray and threatening; when our lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of all who journey with us on the road of life, to your honor and glory.

  Saint Augustine

  Running, Lonely, Hero

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• But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.

  Charles Clarke

  Book, School, Enjoy

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• Purpose is the quality we choose to shape our lives around.

  Richard Leider

  Quality, Purpose, Shapes

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• Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Art Is

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• Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience of the cross applies: the wider we open our hearts to others, the more audibly we intervene against the injustice that rules over us, the more difficult our lives in the rich unjust society will become.

  Dorothee Solle

  Heart, Mean, Unjust Society

  Dorothee Sölle (1990). “Thinking about God: an introduction to theology”, Trinity Pr Intl

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• The real dividing line between things we call work and the things we call leisure is that in leisure, however active we may be, we make our own choices and our own decisions. We feel for the time being that our life is our own.

  Raymond Williams

  Real, Choices, Decision

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• The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more than fidelity, consolation, and companionship. They offer comedy, irony, wit, and a wealth of anecdotes, the "shaggy dog stories" and "stupid pet tricks" that are commonplace pleasures of life.

  Marjorie Garber

  Dog, Stupid, Believe

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• The arts have long been an integral and vibrant part of our nation's cultural heritage. In its many forms, art enables us to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and of our society. Providing us with a unique way to learn about people of other cultures, it allows us to discover all that we have in common. At its best, art can beautify our cities, encourage economic development and social change, and profoundly affect the ways we live our lives.

  William J. Clinton

  Art, Unique, Other Cultures

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• The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

  Hillary Clinton

  Art, Luxury, Individual

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• We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.

  Brené Brown

  Busy

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• For who will testify, who will accurately describe our lives if we do not do it ourselves?

  Faye Moskowitz

  Ifs

  Faye Moskowitz (2011). “And the Bridge Is Love”, p.32, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Bitterness grows in us when we fail to see the trouble and pain in our lives from God's point of view, and when our expectations of what life should be diverge from the reality of what life really is.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Pain, Reality, Views

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• Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Nothing else but seeing God in everything can make us loving and patient with those who annoy us. When we realize that they are only the instruments for accomplishing His purpose in our lives, we will actually be able to thank them [inwardly] for the blessings they bring us.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Blessing, Purpose, Able

  Catherine Jackson, Hannah Whitall Smith (1979). “The Christian's secret of a happy life for today: a paraphrase of Hannah Whitall Smith's classic”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• From our limited vantage point, our lives are marked by an endless series of contingencies. We frequently find ourselves, instead of acting as we planned, reacting to an unexpected turn of events. We make plans but are often forced to change those plans. But there are no contingencies with God. Our unexpected, forced change of plans is a part of His plan. God is never surprised; never caught off guard; never frustrated by unexpected developments. God does as He pleases and that which pleases Him is always for His glory and our good.

  Jerry Bridges

  Frustrated, Acting, Events

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.47, NavPress

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• As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mother, Soul, Looks

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• What we can do is to live out our lives as best we can with purpose, and love, and joy. We can use each day to show those who are closest to us how much we care about them, and treat others with the kindness and respect that we wish for ourselves. We can learn from our mistakes and grow from our failures. And we can strive at all costs to make a better world.

  Barack Obama

  Kindness, Mistake, Joy

  Eulogy for Ted Kennedy, delivered 29 August 2009

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• Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. In effect, the people who change our lives the most begin to sing to us while we are still in darkness. If we listen to their song, we will see the dawning of a new part of ourselves.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Dark, Light

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• Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in our ability to reestablish the spiritual needs of our lives in personal character and social justice. Without this spiritual and moral reawakening we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own instruments.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Lying, Character

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• If we want sincere harmony, peace and joy in our lives, we can have them, but we must be willing to do the work. We must make maintaining an awareness of our spiritual natures first in our lives. Our inner world is the architect of our external world. We don't lose faith in the goodness of life because we become angry and depressed. We become angry and depressed because we lose faith in the goodness of life.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Spiritual, Joy, World

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• When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Firsts, World, First Time

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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