Lives Quotes

For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened

Sometimes something good has to be subtracted from our lives before something better can take its place.

Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.

At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.

Sometimes when we are afraid to confess an area of brokenness or sin in our lives, we know the changes we need to make.

For it is not merely the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well

When we talk about our lives, long or short, brief and tragic or enduring beyond comprehension, we impose a continuity on them, and that continuity is a lie.

I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it.

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

With a healthy environment all our lives are enriched - without it our lives are diminished. The environment is and will always be number one - One Life, One World, Our Future.

Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us

Humans are such creatures of habit that once they get us in all this debt that we accumulate from going college that we have to work it off for the rest of our lives.

We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives

Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.

There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. This is one of those moments. This is one of those times.

May all that is not love within us and without be healed. May all that is love within us and without us be revealed. May every day of our lives be lived in love.

We cannot live without our lives

while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

But sometimes, it’s harder to admit to ourselves we want love in our lives than it is to keep living without it.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.

Freedom isn't about having permission to do whatever we want... it's about having the courage to do whatever fills our life with meaning.

Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important!

When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.

True 'magic' is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one's experience. Maybe we could all use a little 'Harry Potter' in our lives.

The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life's transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.

There are two ways to make someone important in our lives ... we can either love them or hate them.

Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can't do anything.

Our world is constantly changing but the needs of our hearts remain the same, and so does God's power to transform our lives and give us hope for the future.

We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency and in our lives.

We're playing for our lives now.

What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.

Our lives are interesting.

Nature is a really big part of our lives.

Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

At the end of our lives we all ask, did i live? Did i love? Did i matter?

Drama in our lives is the greatest indicator that we're not focused on meaningful goals. On the path to purpose you don't have time for drama.

But I don't think it's as dangerous, scary, or terrifying as getting to the end of our lives and wondering, what if I would have shown up?

We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.

We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

Everybody feels protective and possessive about Kurt [Cobain] , and I think that can be attributed to his unique gift, an ability to touch our lives, and make us feel like he's our friend.

One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.