Our Lives Quotes

Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.

It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.

God brings people into our lives precisely when we need them.

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.

The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.

If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you.

The medication, the hormones and the relentless frustrations of our lives make us bitchy and you're not allowed to be bitchy in public or people won't like you.

Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no less important in our lives than meaningful ones.

When I left 'Days of Our Lives,' I was like, 'I don't know if I'm ever working again. I'm going to do the best I can. If it happens, great. If not, well... it sucks for me.

We can't live our lives obsessing about the past or mourning the future. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to live every moment of our lives the best we can.

When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.

Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.

The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.

Just because the years are passing doesn't mean that the quality of our lives must automatically go downhill.

If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power.

There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we normally live our lives and we'd sort of like to find out what it is.

Our decisions aren’t just isolated choices. Our decisions point our lives in the directions we’re about to head. Show me a decision and I’ll show you a direction.

Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once.

Let’s forget about time And dance our lives away

We've all, at some point in our lives, been in a position where we have felt powerless.

Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause.

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.

As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine, and even completely rewrite them.

If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.

What would our lives be like if we could all be happy no matter what?

Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament

We'll have a 'rest of our lives' now.

We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.

Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.

We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.

The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives.

We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

Doing what we were meant to do creates fun, excitement and contentment in our lives, and invariably, in the lives of the people around us. When you're excited about something it's contagious.

The ability to share whole scenes form our lives will be a valuable thing over time.

However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed.

In every area of our lives we get back what we send out

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.

Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.

[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.

Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.

We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.

Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?

Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.

I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.