Our Quotes
We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.
Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.
The circumstances of our lives actually matter less to our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives.
I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the attention of this body, if only for a few minutes today.
Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives.
Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.
The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.
Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.
Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
... it is clear that our survival and the salvaging of our environment are dependent on more technology, not less.
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?
We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.
Discerning our personal gifts is essential if we are to experience harmony in our lives.
Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We’ve got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we’ve chosen.
When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.
I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and f - king whoever we wanna f - k.
The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.
Our primary relationship is really with ourselves. Our relationships with other people constantly reflect exactly where we are in the process.
I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community.
Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.
We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.
The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives.
If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.
In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.
Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.
I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.
While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans.
love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.
Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it.
If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love.
If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.
Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents house as much as I can.
Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.