Our Lives Quotes

Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us

Humans are such creatures of habit that once they get us in all this debt that we accumulate from going college that we have to work it off for the rest of our lives.

We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives

Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.

There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. This is one of those moments. This is one of those times.

May all that is not love within us and without be healed. May all that is love within us and without us be revealed. May every day of our lives be lived in love.

We cannot live without our lives

while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

But sometimes, it’s harder to admit to ourselves we want love in our lives than it is to keep living without it.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.

We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.

Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.

Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important!

When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.

True 'magic' is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one's experience. Maybe we could all use a little 'Harry Potter' in our lives.

The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life's transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.

There are two ways to make someone important in our lives ... we can either love them or hate them.

Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can't do anything.

We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency and in our lives.

We're playing for our lives now.

What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.

Our lives are interesting.

Nature is a really big part of our lives.

Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

At the end of our lives we all ask, did i live? Did i love? Did i matter?

Drama in our lives is the greatest indicator that we're not focused on meaningful goals. On the path to purpose you don't have time for drama.

But I don't think it's as dangerous, scary, or terrifying as getting to the end of our lives and wondering, what if I would have shown up?

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

We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

Everybody feels protective and possessive about Kurt [Cobain] , and I think that can be attributed to his unique gift, an ability to touch our lives, and make us feel like he's our friend.

One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.

Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.

When we invest in the things that matter most to us, that are within God's unique design for each of us, I believe we will achieve a sense of balance in our lives.

The spiritual test inherent in all our lives is the challenge to discover what motivates us to make the choices we do, and whether we have faith in our fears or the Divine.

I think every part of our lives begins at an energetic level. Like creativity. You can't separate anything from that archetypal process.

It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.

We all make deals with ourselves when it comes to the difficult people in our lives.

There was a man once who said that mothers carry the key of our souls with them all our lives. But you threw mine away

There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony.

Why do we stop believing in ourselves? Why do we let facts and figures and anything but dreams rule our lives?

Sometimes a b.f.f makes you go W.T.F but without them we'd all be a little less richer in our lives .

As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.