Lives Quotes
If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.
When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.
Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.
Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.
Even a small amount of perspective can change our lives. Because even the smallest amount of perspective can change how we are able to navigate hard times.
I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.
I really do believe that there's no such thing as coincidence. People come into our lives for a reason.
I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.
The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed by our parents and the last part being embarrassed by our children.
we’re allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us
When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.
There is no certainty of what will or won't be in our lives. All we have is this moment. The last is gone, the next isn't here yet.
Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.
We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.
We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.
It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.
To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery in all matters of meaning- this is the ultimate adventure.
If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.
Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.
Suffering may be someones fault or it may not be anyones fault. But if given to God, our suffering becomes an opportunity to experience the power of God at work in our lives and to give glory to Him.
Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.
Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.
This moment there is all that will ever be or has ever been. All the events of all of our lives are going-on simultaneously. There is no beginning and there is no ending. There's only this moment.
Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.
We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.
Jesus won't try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won't be confused about who's doing the talking.
Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into it.
What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?
Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives.
The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination.
Asexuality does not make our lives any worse or any better, we just face a different set of challenges than most sexual people.
Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.
It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances.
We don’t have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change. We can initiate change right now. There are endless starting points.
Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.
I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.