Our Lives Quotes - Page 25

• General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.

  Suetonius

  Night, Add, Evening

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• Many of us have road maps we envision for the course we think our lives should take. It's important to get headed in the right direction, but don't get so caught up in the concerns over your destination that you forget to delight in the scenery of each new day. Remember that some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.

  Douglas Pagels

  Thinking, Rushing, New Day

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• In all of our days our lives are always changing, tears come along as well as smiles... May you have rainbows after every storm, may you have hopes to keep you warm. And may you always have an angel by your side.

  Douglas Pagels

  Life, Change, Smile

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• Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

  Esther Meynell

  Country, Civilization, Roots

  Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

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• According to a recent study, depression is described as being the disease most destructive to humankind, largely because of the devastation it wreaks on our lives.... Yes, we could set up our minds to ignore our feelings and barricade ourselves from the winds and dust of the brain pattern. And we could become like robots, refusing to consider the passion and joys that could be ours. But then, we also might as well be dead.

  G. Frank Lawlis

  Passion, Dust, Wind

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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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• We are what we think about.  When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip of self-centered thoughts.  The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Strength, Thinking, Self

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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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• Let's never stop asking questions. Questions give us a harbor to remember where we once lived mentally. They remind us of the possibilities that can be born out of thoughts and musings, and they link together pattern that define our lives.

  Luci Swindoll

  Asking Questions, Giving, Together

  Luci Swindoll (2003). “I Married Adventure”, p.121, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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• As we give the gifts of compassion and humility, our lives become demonstrations of the truth of God's Word.

  Floyd McClung

  Humility, Compassion, Giving

  Floyd McClung (2004). “The Father Heart of God”, p.96, Harvest House Publishers

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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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• It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still.

  Robert Herjavec

  Fighting, Successful, Entrepreneur

  "Ask an Expert: 'Shark Tank' judge on being an entrepreneur". Interview with Steve Strauss, www.usatoday.com. February 24, 2012.

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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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• The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.

  Deborah Norville

  Scripture, God's Plan, Eternal Life

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• Bandwagons roll through our lives. Its up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.

  Riz Ahmed

  Up To You, Bandwagon

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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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• Art is not for the personal satisfaction of one or the other, but art wants to return all what's in life... Art wants to give back everything what's in our lives. The more comprehensive the artist stands in life the more powerful his work will speak, and therefore a work of art is a measure of the mental size of his creator.

  Bram van Velde

  Art, Powerful, Giving

  "Bram van Velde, A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger", Deurne, p. 44, 1994.

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• Here's what a lot of the media want us to believe: One day, we'll get everything right about our appearance. Our hair will look fabulous, our skin will be smooth and crease-free, men will have perfect six-pack abs and we'll be three sizes smaller than we are now. We'll look so good we'll have made over not just our looks but our lives.

  Myrna Blyth

  Believe, Men, Hair

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• Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no less important in our lives than meaningful ones.

  Lidiya Ginzburg

  Meaningful, Important, Vacuums

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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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• Begin at once to live and count each day a separate life time.”
  - Seneca
  “Our lives are the sum total of the choices we have made.

  Wayne Dyer

  Choices, Each Day, Made

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• Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and imagined that, were they ever to indulge in such speculation, the high-rises might seem to them like firs massed in a grove.

  Teju Cole

  Sight, Sky, Indulge In

  Teju Cole (2011). “Open City”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• We never really know what we want until after we get it. If after we get it, it makes life more miserable, we know that isn't what we wanted. If it makes our life wonderful, we know this is a strategy which will meet out need. That's why Paul Tillich, the theologian says we need to sin courageously. You ask for what you want, hoping to meet your needs. If you get it and it makes life worse, you learn that this isn't what I want.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Want, Needs

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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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