Lives Quotes

Change - even change meant to improve our lives - creates stress. We can get comfortable with our problems.

Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths about reality and human existence.

In the final analysis, all explanations of meaning, various as they are, serve to indicate how something is 'appropriate' in and to our practices, our lives in effect.

We spend our lives on a thin slice between the unimaginably small scales of the atoms that compose us and the infinitely large scales of galaxies.

Throughout our lives, we develop our character consciously or unconsciously. In your journey to a life beyond amazing, you'll learn to develop your character in ways that bring remarkable rewards.

Our impulses toward instant gratification aren't to be trusted. Hoarding our resources isn't a worthy goal. We're created with eternity in our hearts, and our lives have everlasting value.

You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.

Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives.

Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this.

One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.

I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.

If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all

In our lives a dog is a dog rather than a former wolf, and it surely is not a cat, a difference that means an enormous amount to some people.

The earth is, of course, not the geometric center of the universe. But it is certainly the center of our lives.

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

It isn't what happens to us in life that creates our joy, but rather how we respond to what happens in our lives.

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

When our attention is on the present, our life is constantly renewed.

Seriousness is equated with responsibility, when, in fact, I think we would be much more responsible if we had more joy and laughter in our lives.

One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.

The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.

[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.

A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.

My sisters and I were encouraged to choose the direction of our lives.

I’m beginning to think I’ve led a much too sheltered life.

Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Even if God never did another good thing in our lives, we could spend the rest of this life praising Him for what He has already done.

More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

Every bit of our lives revolves around how we get from one place to another and how long it's going to take to get there and what time of day you have to leave to do it.

Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?

That is the nature of hope. We do all we can, and then the Lord stretches forth his hand and touches our lives with light and courage and, most of all, hope.

We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.

The Third Way is simply a different route to the same destination. Ultimately, the choice is always between individual human liberty and the power of government to control our lives.

I think our lives are surely but the dreams Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres, Who as we die, do one by one awake.

Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.

We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.

As the pressure of population increasingly regiments us and crowds us closer together, an association with the wild, winged freedom of the birds will fill an ever growing need in our lives.

In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.

Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best.

Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad, As we choose to fashion the measure.

I once heard an exec say, "If you don't ask for it, we can't give it to you." We can't go through our lives just being grateful for everything.

I think that we have to consciously be aware that every moment we're in, every different stage in our lives, we can control.

The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.

We all have the ability to produce greatness in our lives.

In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.