Our Lives Quotes - Page 15

• The car has made our lives more difficult. If not for it, we would have everything we needed within walking distance.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Distance, Car, Made

  "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

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• Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Love, Nature, Attachment

  Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.

  M. Carey Thomas

  Book, Passion, Air

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• The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be 'solved,' then no change will occur.

  James Hollis

  Responsibility, Forever, Growth

  James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.7, Inner City Books

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• To learn to live from the heart it doesn't just change our feeling about life, it actually changes our life.

  Mary Morrissey

  Heart, Feelings

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• If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in the English language Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road.

  Susan Forward

  Self, Understanding, Nagging

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• Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Fuel Prices, Ability, Warm

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• Fashion is not trivial. It's a huge industry and a big part of our lives. Fashion is about us - how we look and present ourselves, how we can change ourselves, and our perceptions. You can dress up to be quite glorious creatures - it's all a very important part of life.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Fashion, Perception, Important

  Harper's BAZAAR Interview, www.harpersbazaar.co.uk. December 5, 2012.

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• Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.

  Bill Vaughan

  Simple, Expression, Kind

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• The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Color, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1867). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.23

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• Rebuilding us. Isn't that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to make our lives our own affirmation? We are perfect expressions of perfect Love, here and now. There is no permanent injury.

  Richard Bach

  Expression, Perfect, Rebuilding

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• There will always be crazy things that happen in our lives, but love is the central connector. If we commit to love and partnership, the other stuff doesnt matter.

  Hill Harper

  Crazy, Love Is, Matter

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• The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone

  Javan

  Pain, Joy, Life Is

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• It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished.

  Mary Borden

  Death, Pity, Dies

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• our domestic lives reflect the major trend that dominates the consumer marketplace today: an ever-increasing emphasis on variety and choice. ... we find ourselves inventing our lives as we go along, improvising in an effort to take advantage of the bewildering range of choices that we face.

  Sally Helgesen

  Choices, Effort, Trends

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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