Our Lives Quotes - Page 35

• God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.

  John Piper

  Dream, Passion, Thinking

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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• This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

  Lee Grant

  Giving, Way, Dignity

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• None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.

  Jake Lloyd

  Stars, War, Understood

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

  Carol Shields

  Thinking, Use, Language

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• Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

  Julien Green

  Book, Character, Writing

  Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins

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• God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

  Joshua Harris

  World, Painful Life, Sin

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• It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow.

  James Larkin

  Mean, Men, Justice

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• So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Long, Temptation, Littles

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying”, p.10

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• God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

  John Piper

  Broken, Grace, Trials

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• The sad thing is that, even though we know our lives aren't working in certain areas, we are still afraid to change. We are locked into our comfort zone, no matter how self-destructive it may be. Yet, the only way to get out of our comfort zone and to be free of our problems and limitations is to get uncomfortable.

  Robert Anthony

  Change, Self, May

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.4, Morgan James Publishing

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• This grace (purity of intention) is so excellent that it sanctifies the most common actions of our life and yet is so necessary that without it, the very best actions of our devotion are imperfect and vicious.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Grace, Common, Action

  Jeremy Taylor, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “The Works of Jeremy Taylor”, p.53

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• I really believe that an awakening, a greater perspective on our lives and existence is happening. It's really the firing of archetypes that are already built into our brains, we just are able to awaken to a point where we can see a greater beauty in the world, a greater connection and sense of well being. This is what the mystics speak about. The insights fire us up into a greater consciousness on the planet. So it is a greater consciousness at the same time and a greater awareness of our spiritual nature. That is what the 'aha' is.

  James Redfield

  Spiritual, Believe, Fire

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• When the light of the sun shines through a prism it is broken into beautiful colours, and when the prism is shattered, still the light remains. So does the life of life shine resplendent in the forms of our friends, and so, when their forms are broken, still their life remains; and in that life we are united with them; for the life of their life is also our life, and we are one with them by ties indissoluble.

  Felix Adler

  Beautiful, Ties, Light

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• When we live our lives everyday, we're met by opportunities, and most of us don't even recognize them.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Opportunity, Everyday, Mets

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us through the darkness of our lives, and they put us into a place where you understand what it is to be human.

  Julie Taymor

  Darkness, Who We Are, Forget

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My advice to other female directors would be to pay no heed to naysayers. Women can be united in the fact that there has always been someone in our lives who has told us "it can't be done" or "there is only so much you can do." We are constantly encouraged to think that being born a woman means we were born with limited choices and compromised dreams.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Dream, Mean, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

  David McCullough

  Book, Character, People

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.

  Alan Alda

  Communication, Boss, Helping

  Interview with Claudia Gryvatz Copquin, www.saturdayeveningpost.com. May/June 2013.

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• I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and change things for fictional use.

  Marge Piercy

  Past, Thinking, People

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• Isn't the small and common the field we live our life in? The large comes into a life through small-paned windows. A breath is small, but everything depends on it. A person looks at you a single, brief moment longer than is necessary, and everything is changed. The smaller the clue, the larger the meaning, it sometimes feels.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Looks, Fields, Common

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Pain, Birth, Geography

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.

  Bernie Siegel

  Meaningful, Meaning Of Life, Alive

  Source: borderlessnewsandviews.com

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• My husband and I have always incorporated things into our life that reduce stress. We're very careful with our health. We go to bed early. In this job, fatigue would be very detrimental! We've always eaten very healthily; now it's really particularly easy because we have a chef.

  Laura Bush

  Jobs, Husband, Stress

  "Laura Bush Wants to Save Your Life". Interview, www.glamour.com. January 3, 2008.

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• Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.

  William James

  Philosophy, Reflection, Perception

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.149, Xist Publishing

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• Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.

  George A. Sheehan

  Writing, Roots, Knows

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