Our Lives Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• 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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  Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses....we must be learning all of our lives.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nurse, Finished

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• The spiritual quest is not some added benefit to our life, something you embark on if you have the time and inclination. We are spiritual beings on an earthly journey. Our spirituality makes up our beingness.

  John Bradshaw

  Spiritual, Journey, Benefits

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem”, p.247, Health Communications, Inc.

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• We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

  Brené Brown

  Ideas, People, Culture

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.116, Penguin

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• I think that as Christians we want to think Christianly, and that means that we want what the Bible says as a rule for life and living to impact every aspect of our life. The Bible informs us of such issues and we need to as Christians do what a first century church did and that is realize that we are not living to be politically correct, popular, or prosperous, but we 're living with eternity in mind.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Christian, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.

  R. A. Salvatore

  People, Expectations, Burden

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Exile: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.176, Wizards of the Coast

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• Steve Jobs was a visionary in the technology and telecom community. His contributions to innovating communications have forever changed our industry and our lives. He will be greatly missed.

  Steve Largent

  Jobs, Communication, Technology

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• When we are at the worst times of our lives, when we are battling with something, or struggles, whatever it may be, when we are at our highest point as well, when things are going really well, we want somebody to comfort us and be there for us and to say, 'Well done.' That's Jesus!

  Russell Wilson

  Jesus, Struggle, Want

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• For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

  Steven Erikson

  Years, Stories, Stones

  Steven Erikson (2011). “The Crippled God: The Malazan Book of the Fallen 10”, p.225, Random House

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• Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked back to the origins of life, to the foundations of culture, and to the deepest levels of the human mind. Myth was not concerned with practical matters, but with meaning. Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair. The mythos of a society provided people with a context that made sense of their day-to-day lives; it directed their attention to the eternal and the universal.

  Karen Armstrong

  Fall, Men, Origin Of Life

  Karen Armstrong (2011). “The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism”, p.14, Ballantine Books

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• Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dream, Couple, Reality

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• We need to believe I think in justice. We need to run our lives as if justice existed... If we abandon a belief that justice will eventually be done, we make this world much more difficult for ourselves.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Running, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Often poetry, especially the sort of poetry I write, is concerned with looking at the borders between the sensual and the spiritual and seeing them as divided, equivocal, that mystery somehow can break in to the ordinary. And we read poetry I think in part, to gain a sense of that intimacy with things that we can't understand that are unable to be understood but that buoy up our lives.

  Kevin Hart

  Spiritual, Writing, Thinking

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

  John Legend

  Thinking, Decision, Important

  "John Legend gets down and dirty". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. October 30, 2008.

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• In the South, our lives kind of revolve around food and taking care of people with food. If someone was sick, or if they had had a baby, or if they had lost a loved one, or even if they lost a job, my momma was at their door with pie or a cake or something to help them feel better.

  Kimberly Schlapman

  Baby, Jobs, Feel Better

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.

  Bell Hooks

  Stress, Thinking, Capacity

  "The BK Nation INTERVIEW with bell hooks". Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. February 28, 2014.

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• Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Single Mom, Looks, Moments

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from May 06, 2013

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• We forget that we create the situations, then we give our power away by blaming the other person for our frustration. No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for “we” are the only thinkers in our mind. We create our experiences, our reality, and everyone in it. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our mind, we will find it in our lives.

  Louise Hay

  Frustration, Reality, Giving

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• But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is unbearable. Adults order children to smile in the photos, involve them in the lie, so we smile, we feign happiness.

  Jo Nesbo

  Children, Lying, Order

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• As those who are chosen, blessed, broken, and given, we are called to live our lives with a deep inner joy and peace. It is the life of the Beloved, lived in a world constantly trying to convince us that the burden is on us to prove that we are worthy of being loved.

  Henri Nouwen

  Blessed, Convince Us, Broken

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• Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers.

  Reid Hoffman

  Opportunity, Careers, Progress

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• What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

  Richard Bach

  Adventure, Odds, Risk

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• We can bring brilliant flowers of victory to bloom in our lives when we weather the hardships of winter and emerge triumphant based on our practice of the Mystic Law. The key to victories lies in how hard we struggle when we are in winter, how wisely we use this time and how meaningful we live each day confident that spring will definitely come.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Meaningful, Lying, Spring

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