Our Quotes
I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment.
The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.
Humour is a big part of our lives as well as our music. Making it fun is the most important thing.
As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.
Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
I think it's really important to teach our children about their lineage and it especially makes a difference if you share that information while they're young.
How many times have you prayed or asked or said you needed help, when suddenly somebody showed up in your life? We are all connected through our thoughts.
Unbinding the Heart means to really look at the areas in our lives where we withhold our own love from our self and others.
There is a spirit, an energy, that works with us. We've all felt it at some point in our lives.
Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.
God loves us for ourselves. He values our love more than he values galaxies of new created worlds.
What do we value most? What would we most hate to lose? What do our thoughts turn to most frequently when we are free to think of what we will? And finally, what affords us the greatest pleasure?
We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity.
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes.
Our planet has a rising fever. If the crib catches fire you don't say: 'Hmmm, how fast is that crib going to burn? Has it ever burned before? Is my baby flame retardant?'
Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in all its ardour and paradoxes - than our travels.
It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.
It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free.
If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.
I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.
When we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between.
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.
Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.
We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of. We start blaming them.
There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters.
Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.
We are the sum total of our memories. Memories are the most precious things we have. Good or bad. That's what make us who we are. What would we be without them?
For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.
Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.
The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.
The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.