Our Lives Quotes - Page 22

• Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.

  Phillips Brooks

  Enthusiasm, Losing, Admiration

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• All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Art, Expression, Way

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.125, New Victoria Publishers

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• When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Mother, Profound, Abandoned

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.384, Bantam

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• Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

  Melody Beattie

  Trying, Doe

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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• If we are unhappy without a relationship, we'll probably be unhappy with one as well. A relationship doesn't begin our life; a relationship doesn't become our life. A relationship is a continuation of life.

  Melody Beattie

  Continuation Of Life, Unhappy, Wells

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 3 Title Bundle: Author of Codependent No More and Three Other Best Sellers: A collection of three Melody Beattie best sellers”, p.118, Hazelden Publishing

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• If we are waiting for guaranteed courses of action, we may spend much of our life waiting.

  Melody Beattie

  Waiting, May, Action

  Melody Beattie (1990). “The Language of Letting Go”, p.135, Hazelden Publishing

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• In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.

  Erica Jong

  Criticism, World, Made

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.17, Penguin

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• we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Ifs

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.155, Penguin

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• To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Yield, World

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.225, Courier Corporation

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• And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just husband and family, but must have a community, a group, an exchange with others. A child is not enough. A husband and children, no matter how busy one may be kept by them, are not enough. Young and old, even in the busiest years of our lives, we women especially are victims of the long loneliness.

  Dorothy Day

  Husband, Children, Loneliness

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• By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, by my looking death in the eye and accepting it, by accepting destruction as part of life and no longer wasting my energies on fear of death or the refusal to acknowledge its inevitability. It sounds paradoxical: by excluding death from our life we cannot live a full life, and by admitting death into our life we enlarge and enrich it.

  Etty Hillesum

  Mean, Eye, Reality

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• It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersections, no fish and no ducks. OK?

  Molly Ivins

  Running, Government, Fishing

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• We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.

  Alice Cary

  Happiness, Missing, Helping

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.176

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• During the day, our souls gather their ... impressions of us, how our lives feel. ... Our spirits collect these impressions, keep them together, like wisps of smoke in a bag. Then, when we're asleep, our brains open up these bags of smoke ... and take a look.

  Marsha Norman

  Soul, Brain, Together

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• Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.

  Marianne Williamson

  Experience, States, Determine

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Most of us feel on some level like race horses chomping at the bit, pressing at the gate, hoping and praying for someone to open the door and let us run out. We feel so much pent up energy, so much locked up talent. We know in our hearts that we were born to do great things, and we have a deep-seated dread of wasting our lives. But the only person who can free us is ourselves. Most of us know that. We realize that the locked door is our own fear.

  Marianne Williamson

  Running, Horse, Heart

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• On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act.

  Mary McCarthy

  Wall, Gun, Waiting

  Mary McCarthy (1993). “Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938”, Harcourt

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• when people go away, or when we leave the places we love, or something we treasure goes out of our life - I have always noticed that before it happens - this leaving, this parting - when we think about it beforehand we are overwhelmed with sadness at the loss to come. ... the most unbearable sense of loss, the worst homesickness of all, so I have found, is this loss and sickness we feel beforehand, before we ever leave home.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Home, Sadness, Loss

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• God has plans and purposes for each of our lives. But the beauty is that He doesn't call us and leave us on our own. Jesus actually lives in us to pull off the amazing things that He has invited us into.

  Louie Giglio

  Jesus, Purpose, God Has A Plan

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• We have the ability to choose, we are God's higher form of creation, we surpass all other forms of life and we don't use the mental faculties we've been given. We don't even understand what we are capable of doing. School doesn't teach us anything about ourselves. So the more we learn about ourselves, the more we take control over our life.

  Bob Proctor

  School, Use, Creation

  Source: pavlinapapalouka.com

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• Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another.

  David Platt

  Jesus, Believe, Decisions We Make

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The call of Christ is to deny ourselves and to let go of our lives. To relinquish control of our lives, to surrender everything we are, everything that we do, our direction our safety our security is no longer found in the things of this world. It is found in Christ. And that is great risk when it comes to the things of this world.

  David Platt

  Letting Go, Safety, Risk

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? At least in Sweden or Scandinavia, you don't have to search further back in time than maybe three generations to find another way to relate to death. People then had a different, closer relationship with death; at least it was like that in the countryside.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  People, Way, Different

  "'Something that's not yourself.' — An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.

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• We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives.
  As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves.
  The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot

  Alan Watts

  War, Thinking, Giving

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Some time in our lives every man and woman of us, putting out our hands toward the stars, touch on either side our prison walls the immutable limitations of temperament

  Margaret Deland

  Stars, Wall, Men

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