Our Lives Quotes - Page 21

• The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Care, Safe, Divine

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1623, Barbour Publishing

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Astrology ... makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we'll see. Astrologers don't seek causes at all, for a good reason: There isn't any cause to astrology. If you look for some underlying reason, some connection between the stars and planets and our lives, you won't find any. For astrology to sell, buyers must not seek out the fundamental principles behind it, because if they do they'll see that there is none.

  Phil Plait

  Stars, Astrology, Connections

  7 Copy quote

• Ours is the one ever-present voice in our lives. Therefore, it is crucial that our self-talk instill confidence within us and is supportive, not submerging, and that our attitudes toward ourselves help keep our spirits afloat through acceptance and trust. We are our own most important and influential buoy.

  Sue Thoele

  Confidence, Attitude, Acceptance

  5 Copy quote

• A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it....In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Love, Life, Weed

  72 Copy quote

• ... Providence conducts us with so much kindness through the different periods of our life, that we scarcely feel the change; our days glide gently and imperceptibly along, like the motion of the hour-hand, which we cannot discover. ... we advance gradually; we are the same to-day as yesterday, and to-morrow as to-day: thus we go on, without perceiving it, which is a miracle of the Providence I adore.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Kindness, Hands, Yesterday

  4 Copy quote

• White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value;they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Character, Lakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.124, 谷月社

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Giving, Fool, Failing

  Sheldon B. Kopp (1985). “Even a Stone Can be a Teacher: Learning and Growing from the Experiences of Everyday Life”, Tarcher

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• [About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.

  I. L. Peretz

  Teacher, People, Different

  15 Copy quote

• When we succeed in truly thanking God, we feel good at heart. The reason is that we have been created to give glory to God, now and for-evermore. And every time we do so, we feel that we are in harmony with His plans and purposes for our lives. Then we are truly in our element. That is why it is so blessed.

  Ole Hallesby

  Blessed, Heart, Giving

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hints, Affair, Seems

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.212, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And as we live our lives we discover - drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each - what has been lost. I closed my eyes and tried to bring to mind as many beautiful lost things as I could. Drawing them closer, holding on to them.

  Haruki Murakami

  Beautiful, Eye, Drawing

  4 Copy quote

• If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.

  Haruki Murakami

  Essence, Shells, Might

  4 Copy quote

• Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched by pain tend to be shallow in their perspectives on life. Suffering, on the other hand, tends to plow up the surface of our lives to uncover the depths that provide greater strength of purpose and accomplishment. Only deeply plowed earth can yield bountiful harvests.

  Billy Graham

  Pain, Character, Yield

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jul 24, 2015

  68 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.

  Haile Selassie

  Teaching, Action, Divine

  101 Copy quote

• Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them.

  Winston Churchill

  Hands, Our Future

  16 Copy quote

• God formed us for His pleasure, and so formed us that we as well as He can in divine communion enjoy the sweet and mysterious mingling of kindred personalities. He meant us to see Him and live with Him and draw our life from His smile.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sweet, Personality, Mysterious

  6 Copy quote

• Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal ... The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life ... You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing 'no thing,' and simply notice what you are experiencing.

  Tara Brach

  Moving, Reading, Acceptance

  7 Copy quote

• The purpose of our lives is to be happy. We live in hope, which means looking forward to something good. And there are increasing scientific findings that both our physical and mental well-being depend on our peace of mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Mind, Purpose

  4 Copy quote

• Prayer itself, born in Catholic families, nurtured by programs of Christian formation, strengthened by the grace of the sacraments, is the first means by which we come to know the Lord’s will for our lives. To the extent that we teach young people to pray, and to pray well, we will be cooperating with God’s call. Programs, plans and projects have their place; but the discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God’s call.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

  Pope Benedict XVI (2008). “Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States”, p.58, Ignatius Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

  Honore de Balzac

  Summer, Spring, Flower

  8 Copy quote

• There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Pyramids, Moments, Crisis

  18 Copy quote

• We must make our lives as we sew, stitch by stitch.

  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

  Stitches

  8 Copy quote

• The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Block, School, Secret

  5 Copy quote

• Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.

  Gloria Steinem

  Grateful, Long, Too Much

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.265, Open Road Media

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Night, Names

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.146

  7 Copy quote

  Show source