Our Lives Quotes

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

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.

We don’t have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change. We can initiate change right now. There are endless starting points.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

Worship is a meeting at the centre so that our lives are centred in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this centre, the living God.

By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.

What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution.

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.

If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn't want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.

It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.

The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.

May God give you - and me- the courage, the wisdom, the strength always to hold the kingdom of God as the number one priority of our lives. To do so is to live in simplicity.

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

There is no certainty of what will or won't be in our lives. All we have is this moment. The last is gone, the next isn't here yet.

I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.

We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.

Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives.

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they produce a settled assurance about God.

So many people have that relationship. The companionship. The connection. To our - to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.

I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.

We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.

Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living.

I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’

Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.

When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.

Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.

I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.

All that will matter forever and ever in our heavenly state is the glory that came to God through our lives.

It's not that we're trying to avoid death; we're trying to enjoy our lives fully, to wring every wonderful drop out of life that we possibly can.

Asexuality does not make our lives any worse or any better, we just face a different set of challenges than most sexual people.

The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.

Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.

Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.

I really do believe that there's no such thing as coincidence. People come into our lives for a reason.