Our Lives Quotes - Page 36

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

Thomas Merton

Perfection, Substance, Moral

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We must be able to appreciate and enjoy the places where we tarry and yet pass on without anguish when we are called elsewhere. In our spiritual development we are often required to pull up roots many times and to close many chapters in our lives until we are no longer attached to any material thing and can love all people without any attachment to them.

Peace Pilgrim

Spiritual, Attachment, Roots

Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.19, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into new heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?

Milan Kundera

Real, Men, Air

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In order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment.

Michael Crichton

Believe, Order, People

Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

Michael Crichton

Giving Up, Responsibility, Healthy

Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.95, Vintage

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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

Salman Rushdie

Way, Agree, Deserve

Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.19, Macmillan

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Each morning is a new beginning of our life. Each day is a finished whole. The present day marks the boundary of our cares and concerns. It is long enough to find God or lose Him, to keep faith or fall into disgrace.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Morning, Fall, New Beginnings

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, David McI. Gracie (2000). “Meditating on the Word”, p.28, Rowman & Littlefield

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Throughout much of our lives, our association with the temporary has risen. This transitory body, a sack of bones and flesh, is considered erroneously as our true body and we have accepted this temporary condition as conclusive.

George Harrison

Body, Flesh, Association

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We must know who we are, so we can know what we want, so we don't end up wanting the wrong thing and get it and realize we don't want it, because by then it's too late. We are powerful enough that we can manifest anything into our lives. To use this power with great care and love is the secret to living a happy life.

Margaret Cho

Powerful, Happy Life, Love Is

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How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together.

Rohinton Mistry

Long, Together, Length

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If Hollywood and Bollywood were how we all lived our lives, that would surprise me. And yet it's often the way our cultures are conveyed, isn't it?

Hillary Clinton

Beautiful, Fighting, Thinking

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That's the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.

Adyashanti

Real, Heart, Opportunity

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There is always something sad about the trams, may be because they are like our lives: They appear from nothingness and disappear in the horizon of the crowds.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Horizon, Crowds, May

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To be an aritst is not to wait for others to define us, but to define ourselves, claim our lives.

Jan Phillips

Waiting, Claims

Jan Phillips (2012). “Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity”, p.8, Quest Books

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...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the fate of human beings," and allowing technology to permeate every aspect of our lives. In the United States, both of these developments have converged, creating a huge chasm between rich and poor and pushing us over the edge into a kind of antisociety... While these developments have been widely hailed as the dawn of a golden age, the likelihood is that they actually amount to a death knell, the beginning of the end of the American empire.

Morris Berman

Fate, Technology, Two

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It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire's tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.

Thubten Yeshe

Wish, Desire, Energy

Thubten Yeshe (2005). “Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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We hadn't sung together in six years. We realized that we'd missed each other personally and musically, so we decided to try a limited reunion tour. We wanted to work together enough to have it be a meaningful part of our lives, but not so much that it wouldn't be fun.

Mary Travers

Meaningful, Fun, Years

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Our life is a gift from God. What we do with that life is our gift to God.

Samuel S. Sumner

Life Is, Life Is A Gift, Gift From God

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Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.

Alan Moore

Children, Dark, Sky

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All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.

Mother Teresa

Jesus, Prayer, Motivation

Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

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Our life is our own creation.

Eileen Caddy

Life Is, Creation

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The George Washington Masonic National Memorial is a fitting tribute to so great a man and Mason. Its message should be as prominent in our lives as the Memorial itself in the skyline of the Federal City. Wherever we are, in Alexandria, Virginia, the District of Columbia of should be in our moral horizon, beckoning us to greater achievements as citizens and Masons.

Henry Clausen

Men, Virginia, Cities

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To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate

William Wilberforce

Ignorance, Bored, Missing

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Marriage is designed to pull dysfunction to the surface of our lives, set it on fire and help us grow.

Tyler Ward

Fire, Dysfunction, Helping

"3 Reasons to Stay Married" by Tyler Ward, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 30, 2014.

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When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.

Brian Tracy

Fall, Thinking, Quality

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