Lives Quotes
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.
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.
We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.
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.
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.
More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives that determine our destiny.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Today's thought for empowerment: If we would only love more all limitations in our lives would be gone!
We're all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.
While we may not be called to martyr our lives, we must martyr our way of life. We must put our selfish ways to death and march to a different beat. Then the world will see Jesus.
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.
If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.
Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.
Those who realize that life is for growing and developing from each and every challenge, each day of our lives, live a life of joy!!!
Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
The genuiness of our worship cannot be measured in decibels of sound, and although it is vital that we express our love for God vocally, He looks to see the evidence in our lives.
But any Time is with us. And if we take control to shape our attitude and reshape our memories, that time is always now, - our time for the best possible uses of our lives.
Some of us are born with a sense of loss. It is not acquired as we grow. It is already there from the beginning, and it pervades us throughout our lives.
The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.
A grateful heart ... comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all that they bring into our lives.
Loss provides an opportunity to take inventory of our lives, to reconsider priorities, and to determine new directions.
Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.
Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.
Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus rather than widen our view.
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
As we remember prayer and take time to turn to the scriptures, our lives will be infinitely more blessed and our burdens will be made lighter.
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.
An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.
God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments
As Christians, we say what God has said over and over until the thing promised in His Word and desired in our hearts is fully manifested in our lives.
One of the most critical reasons believers experience defeat is because we categorize only a few areas of our lives as Christ's arena.