Our Lives Quotes

The earth is, of course, not the geometric center of the universe. But it is certainly the center of our lives.

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

It isn't what happens to us in life that creates our joy, but rather how we respond to what happens in our lives.

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

When our attention is on the present, our life is constantly renewed.

Seriousness is equated with responsibility, when, in fact, I think we would be much more responsible if we had more joy and laughter in our lives.

One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.

The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.

[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.

A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.

My sisters and I were encouraged to choose the direction of our lives.

Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Even if God never did another good thing in our lives, we could spend the rest of this life praising Him for what He has already done.

More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

Every bit of our lives revolves around how we get from one place to another and how long it's going to take to get there and what time of day you have to leave to do it.

Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?

That is the nature of hope. We do all we can, and then the Lord stretches forth his hand and touches our lives with light and courage and, most of all, hope.

We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.

The Third Way is simply a different route to the same destination. Ultimately, the choice is always between individual human liberty and the power of government to control our lives.

I think our lives are surely but the dreams Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres, Who as we die, do one by one awake.

Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.

As the pressure of population increasingly regiments us and crowds us closer together, an association with the wild, winged freedom of the birds will fill an ever growing need in our lives.

In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.

Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best.

Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad, As we choose to fashion the measure.

I once heard an exec say, "If you don't ask for it, we can't give it to you." We can't go through our lives just being grateful for everything.

I think that we have to consciously be aware that every moment we're in, every different stage in our lives, we can control.

The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.

We all have the ability to produce greatness in our lives.

In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.

we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.

Each of us is affected by what happens to the other. Just as our movement interact on the field, so our lives interact to a certain degree. This is what is so great about being a member of a team.

We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance

We must remain in love and develop in love; that must be the compelling force in our lives. It is possible to love everyone. When you sense you lack love, you must quite simply pray.

Love is an act of imagination. For some of us, it will be the greatest creative triumph of our lives.

Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.

I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.

We're in a crisis. We're in a crisis like I don't think America has ever known in my lifetime. But we have to keep joy in our lives, love in our lives, poetry in our lives, dancing in our lives.

If we have any criticism of our leaders, we invite Satan into our lives and beliefs.

Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.

In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .

The way we live out our days is the way we will live our lives.

The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.

We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest.

We are inspired by the God that we see in others and suddenly we find ourselves changing. We find ourselves giving more. We find that our lives become rather amazingly beautiful.

Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.