Our Lives Quotes - Page 14

• No one is perfect. Even the most confident people have insecurities. At some point in of our lives, we may feel we lack something. That is reality. We must try to live as per our capability.

  Anil Sinha

  Reality, People, Perfect

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• Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  World, Immortal Life, Action

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• The first undeniable reality is that every living thing dies, and the second undeniable reality is that we suffer throughout our lives because we don't understand death. The truth derived from these two points is the importance of clarifying the matter of birth and death. The third undeniable reality is that all of the thoughts and feelings that arise in my head simply arise haphazardly, by chance. And the conclusion we can derive from that is not to hold on to all that comes up in our head. That is what we are doing when we sit zazen.

  Kosho Uchiyama

  Death, Truth, Reality

  Kosho Uchiyama, Tom Wright, Jisho Warner (2004). “Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Our life is whatever we are encountering right now, and our practice is shikantaza, which is literally 'just sitting.' More broadly it means to put our energy into settling everything in our world here and now, where we really live.

  Kosho Uchiyama

  Mean, Our World, Practice

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• The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a basis of historical continuity for black people. It is a ritualized way of talking about ourselves and passing it on.

  Sherley Anne Williams

  Music, Philosophical, Talking

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• Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our lives differently so that we are able to become vehicles to transcend, to encompass and articulate not only our own experience but the experiences of others.

  Alexis De Veaux

  Responsibility, Thinking, Sight

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• Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.

  Laura Huxley

  Vocabulary, Life Is Like, Quality

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• This Western culture of ours tends to sacrifice the full range of experience to a lower common denominator that's acceptable to more people; we end up with McDonald's instead of real food, Holiday Inns instead of homes, and USA Today instead of news and cultural analysis. And we do that with the rest of our lives.

  Kate Bornstein

  Real, Home, Holiday

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• Much of our understanding of God's action in our lives in achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed we cry out in astonishment like Jacob, 'The Lord is in this place and I never knew it.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Understanding, Events, Astonishment

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• It is precisely because we cannot see God that we can only know that our prayer is valid by the effect it has upon our lives, by the way we treat our neighbor.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Prayer, Way, Neighbor

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• Our joys will be doubled and our sorrows will be reduced and we will walk our life in community with the body of Christ. When you are with someone else, you are not nearly as willing to give up. So find a friend, be honest and walk together.

  Jennifer Rothschild

  Giving Up, Community, Joy

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• Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.

  Phil Robertson

  Jesus, Mind, Important

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• Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Drama, Conflict

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• In the existence of our lives, there are many coincidences that bring people together, but there's only one person that will own your heart forever.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Heart, People, Forever

  Jessica Sorensen (2014). “The Resolution of Callie and Kayden”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• We all make terrible mistakes in our lives.

  Scott Bradfield

  Mistake, Terrible

  "Go Forth (Vol. 15)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Real, Decision, Voting

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• If you're in a subordinate position of some sort and pretty much all of us are at some point in our lives, your general tendency is to try and impress the people above you or person above you so well that they will like you, keep you or maybe promote you. In the process of doing that you are not aware that that person above has insecurities and if you try so hard they may see that you are after their job or that you are better than they are or they might envy the fact you are younger.

  Robert Greene

  Jobs, People, Envy

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds and when we call forth those memories, we are essentially filling in the blanks. We're basically telling ourselves a story, but that story changes based on how old we are, and what mood we're in, and if we've seen photographs recently. We trust other people to tell us the story of our lives before we can remember it, and usually that's our parents and usually it works, but obviously not always. And everybody's interpretation is going to be different.

  Steven Tyler

  Couple, Memories, Ideas

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• our lives are stories we tell ourselves.

  Nancy Mairs

  Life, Stories

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• We go into a relationship looking for love, not realizing that we must bring love with us. We must bring a strong sense of self and purpose into a relationship. We must bring a sense of value, of who we are. We must bring an excitement about ourselves, our lives, and the vision we have for these two essential elements. We must bring a respect for wealth and abundance. Having achieved it to some satisfactory degree on our own, we must move into relationships willing to share what we have, rather than being afraid of someone taking it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Strong, Moving, Self

  "In the Meantime". Book by Iyanla Vanzant, www.cnn.com. 1998.

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• General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.

  Suetonius

  Night, Add, Evening

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• The whole of Christianity is comprised in three things--to believe, to love, and to obey Jesus. These are things, however, which we must be learning all our life.

  Christian Scriver

  Jesus, Believe, Three

  Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.46

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• We can win the struggle to avoid responsibility for our personal lives, but if we do, what we lose is our lives.

  Jo Coudert

  Struggle, Responsibility, Winning

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.118, iUniverse

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• We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.

  Karan Casey

  Jobs, Loneliness, Difficult Situations

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• According to a recent study, depression is described as being the disease most destructive to humankind, largely because of the devastation it wreaks on our lives.... Yes, we could set up our minds to ignore our feelings and barricade ourselves from the winds and dust of the brain pattern. And we could become like robots, refusing to consider the passion and joys that could be ours. But then, we also might as well be dead.

  G. Frank Lawlis

  Passion, Dust, Wind

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