Our Lives Quotes - Page 22

• 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

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• Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new level . . . requires us to do something uncomfortable. It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it. As former Congressman Ed Forman says, 'Winners are those people who make a habit of doing things losers are uncomfortable doing.' Make today your day to start that uncomfortable new habit.

  Jack Canfield

  Powerful, Skills, People

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• And when this grand canvas, our life, is finished, may the world in some small or large way be a better place.

  Robert Regis Dvorak

  World, May, Way

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• Together we can change our culture for the better by ending violence against women and girls, artists have a unique power to change minds and attitudes and get us thinking and talking about what matters, and all of us, in our lives, have the power to set an example. Join our campaign to stop this violence.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Girl, Attitude

  "Sam Smith Wins 4 Grammy Awards, Including Song Of The Year". wwno.org. February 9, 2015.

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• That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant.

  Albert Pike

  Lasts, Life Is, Effects

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

  Florence Nightingale

  Vanity, Filling Up, Want

  Florence Nightingale (1991). “Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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• Our belief in our divinity will rewrite our life, and create it anew

  Masami Saionji

  Life, Divinity, Belief

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• The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, one by one, little distinguishable from each other. But when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and sorrow.

  Bryan Procter

  Years, Long, Joy

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• Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of our lives, ultimately, not by will power but by surrender.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Self, Surrender, Paradox

  Lewis B. Smedes (2002). “A Life of Distinction: What It Takes to Live with Courage, Honesty, and Gratitude”, Shaw

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• It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heart, Imperfection, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.96, Penguin

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• The life of a good man will hardly improve us more than the life of a freebooter, for the inevitable laws appear as plainly in theinfringement as in the observance, and our lives are sustained by a nearly equal expense of virtue of some kind. The decaying tree, while yet it lives, demands sun, wind, and rain no less than the green one. It secretes sap and performs the functions of health. If we choose, we may study the alburnum only. The gnarled stump has as tender a bud as the sapling.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rain, Men, Wind

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau’s Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature: Walden, Walking, Night and Moonlight, The Highland Light, A Winter Walk, The Maine Woods, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples…”, p.299, e-artnow

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• It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the rest. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Strong, Passion, Ambition

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• Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Compassion, Suffering

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed.

  Vanna Bonta

  Fiction, Behinds

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• My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Believe, Fate

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• Our life is made up of time, and time is a gift from God, so it is important that it be used in good and fruitful actions.

  Pope Francis

  Life, Important, Action

  "Pope Francis Urges Young People Not To Waste Time on Internet". www.nbcnews.com. August 6, 2014.

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• I love Karrueche very much but I don't want to see her hurt over my friendship with Rihanna, i'd rather be single allowing us to both be happy in our lives.

  Chris Brown

  Love, Friendship, Hurt

  "Chris Brown renews 'friendship' with Rihanna" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. October 4, 2012.

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• Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.

  Alicia Keys

  Love, Music, Laughter

  "Jay Z brings the A-list for Tidal streaming". www.cnbc.com. March 30, 2015.

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• We cannot force our self to stay longer with something,situation or with the person who we don't really like . The best decision is to move on so then we can stay happy with our life style.

  Deepa Mehta

  Life, Moving, Self

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• An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.

  Petro Poroshenko

  Freedom, Independence, Enemy

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• Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a
  chain of sin and expiation controlled by a destiny that can not be understood.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Destiny, Guilt, World

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1926.

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• Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.

  Matt Chandler

  Cities, Needs, Sin

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• If Jesus is here we are going to walk out of this place to live our lives to the glory of God the Father.

  Louie Giglio

  Jesus, Father, Glory

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• Our lives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we do with conflict that makes the difference.

  Thomas Crum

  Differences, Conflict, Dependent

  Thomas F. Crum, Thomas Crum (1998). “The Magic of Conflict: Turning a Life of Work Into a Work of Art”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• We could all do with a bit more joy in our lives couldn't we? The wonderful thing is that when we start spreading joy, we begin to actually experience more joy in our lives too!

  Steve Goodier

  Joy, Wonderful, Bits

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