Our Lives Quotes - Page 10

• I think people come into our lives for a reason, and we can learn from them, and they have lessons to teach us.

  Danielle Panabaker

  Thinking, People, Lessons

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• Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Class, Parent, Our Society

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• Begin at once to live and count each day a separate life time.”
  - Seneca
  “Our lives are the sum total of the choices we have made.

  Wayne Dyer

  Choices, Each Day, Made

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• Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.

  Teju Cole

  Sight, Sky, Indulge In

  Teju Cole (2011). “Open City”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes were not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Fashion, Memories, Past

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• It's mighty hard right now to think of anything that's precious that isn't endangered. There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Sacred, World

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• In Australia, average temperatures have risen almost one degree since 1910, and each decade since the 1940s has been warmer than the one before. That warming is real. Its consequences are real. And it will change our lives in real and practical ways.

  Julia Gillard

  Real, Australia, Average

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• We should - we will - welcome people of faith into the political process... It is essential that believers enter the arena. Your involvement in politics helps determine how well our democracy works. We have finally learned that government programs cannot solve our problems. Government can hand out money, but government cannot put hope in our hearts or a sense of purpose in our lives.

  George W. Bush

  Heart, Humor, Government

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• We never really know what we want until after we get it. If after we get it, it makes life more miserable, we know that isn't what we wanted. If it makes our life wonderful, we know this is a strategy which will meet out need. That's why Paul Tillich, the theologian says we need to sin courageously. You ask for what you want, hoping to meet your needs. If you get it and it makes life worse, you learn that this isn't what I want.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Want, Needs

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• Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Difficult Situations, Overcoming

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• All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

  John Lennon

  Kids, Writing, Artist

  "The Beatles Anthology" by The Beatles, (p. 9), 2000.

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• War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all.

  Faramir

  War, Towers, Swiftness

  "Fictional character: Faramir". 'The Two Towers' ('The Lord of the Rings'), Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1954.

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• Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Strange, Moments, Looking Back

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• Its no secret that the Democrats and liberal media would love to take away our guns and mandate every aspect of our lives, but I refuse to let them get away with that.

  Paul Broun

  Gun, Media, Secret

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

  Manny Pacquiao

  Ifs

  "Manny Pacquiao is a new man". Interview with Jeremy Schaap, www.espn.com. December 3, 2012.

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• No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Mother, Aunt, Past

  Rita Mae Brown (2014). “Rubyfruit Jungle”, p.3, Bantam

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• All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because were liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

  Deb Caletti

  Liars, Events, Viewpoints

  Deb Caletti (2013). “He's Gone: A Novel”, p.332, Bantam

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• So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.

  W. H. Auden

  Fate, Thinking, Long

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• An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people like the Chekhov story The Lady With the Little Dog.

  Claire Messud

  Dog, People, Abiding

  "Midlife and Fantasy at 42 — Claire Messud’s New Novel Resonates". Interview with Heidi Legg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2013.

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• Abortion is a states' rights issue. Education is a states' right issue. Medicinal marijuana is a states' rights issue. Gay marraige is a states' rights issue. Assisted suicide- like Terri Schiavo- is a states' rights issue. Come to think of it, almost every issue is a states' rights issue. Let's get the federal government out of our lives.

  Wayne Allyn Root

  Suicide, Gay, Marijuana

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• I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.

  Adam Rapp

  Thinking, Compassion, Years

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• Im 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some point will realize: We are all always 17 years old, waiting for our lives to begin.

  Harlan Coben

  Kids, Years, Waiting

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• We need strength beyond ourselves to keep the commandments in whatever circumstance life brings to us. The combination of trials and their duration are as varied as are the children of our Heavenly Father. No two are alike. But what is being tested is the same, at all times in our lives and for every person: will we do whatsoever the Lord our God will command us?

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Father, Adversity

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• The course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Running, Track, Choices

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• Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.

  Toni Morrison

  Country, Juice, Littles

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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