Our Quotes
I have a new dream I must be a politician to save this country. There are so many crises in our country. I want to remove these crises.
Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.
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.
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
I thought I started acting at 5 or 6, it was really when they were interviewing real families for a toothpaste commercial. They interviewed our family.
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.
We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow.
typically, our love for our leaders is one-sided: their successes become our own, while their failures are theirs alone.
Certainly being governor is an important job, and there are quality governors that could serve our country as president and have done so in the past.
The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common.
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
I think that one of the tasks of feminist women - mainly women of culture - in our time is to seek out those women who were only forgotten because they were women.
Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.
We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.
We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe.
Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.
Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)
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.
Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.
The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives.
The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life.
We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I think we can heal people before they become chronically sick. I believe our thoughts make us sick.
Before we choose our tools and technology, we must choose our dreams and values, for some technologies serve them, while others make them more unobtainable.
When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.
The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.
Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.
GOALS are dreams with deadlines, and without those deadlines, our dreams are dead in the water.
To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.
My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.
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.
We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.
Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet.
However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed.
Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.
As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.
There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.
Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.