Our Quotes
What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?
Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.
To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.
We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.
Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.
A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.
It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
Like all of you I'm angry. I'm angry at what's happening to our nation. Citizens, it's time to take our country back.
Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.
The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.
Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system.
Suffering may be someones fault or it may not be anyones fault. But if given to God, our suffering becomes an opportunity to experience the power of God at work in our lives and to give glory to Him.
Jesus won't try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won't be confused about who's doing the talking.
Wishing will not make it so. The Lord expects our thinking. He expects our action. He expects our labors. He expects our testimonies. He expects our devotion.
I love kids and I maintain that they are our future, that we adults owe them the ability to achieve their potential and that we don't own this planet. We hold it in trust for them.
Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words and practicing strategies that make a difference in our writing.
The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children
My parents got carried away with the letter P when they were naming the kids in our family. There's me, Paula, my sisters Peggy and Patty, and my brother Pjimmy, spelled with a silent P.
I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.
Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.
Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.
Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another from within ourselves.
we’re allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.
We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.
The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?
We've been given this gift, our planet, and we've found no other place in the universe that we can inhabit. I want to do something to create radical change to help save it. It's our responsibility.
Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.
Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.
Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.
Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.
When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree.