If He Lives Quotes
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives.
You know we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then I thought, well, there'll be other days. I didn't realize that that was the only day.
America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.
Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.
Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.
I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.
I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.
Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.
There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.
I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down planets to make our life work.
We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.
Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.
The challenges in our lives are there to STRENGTHEN our CONVICTIONS. They are NOT there to run us over.
We don't have to wait until we are old to gather the riches... We can gather them every day of our lives.
I suspect that these traits-desire, commitment, and good work habits-are important in all facets of our lives. . .
Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.
A life of fulfillment is one in which we put urgency in its place and remember that the ultimate target is to spend our lives doing the things we believe are most important to us.
Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending, that haunts our sleep so much as the fear that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
. . . our lives are shaped by our interactions with others. Whether we have a long conversation with a friend or simply place an order at a restaurant, every interaction makes a difference.
Being a pacifist to save your own life is normal, being a pacifist for the lives of others is true pacifism.
It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.
There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.
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.
Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room; it can take a while to even notice it's there.
Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.
Why are we doing all these handstands, backbends and arm balances? I don't know why we're doing them unless our lives are shaped and changed.
We and we alone have the power to change our lives, and we can choose to do so at any moment.
Today's thought for empowerment: If we would only love more all limitations in our lives would be gone!
Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.
We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.
Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.
Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.
Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything - even our lives - in our struggle for justice.
Telling about our lives is important for those who come after as, for those who will see our experience as part of their own historical struggle.
Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.
Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.