Our Lives Quotes
Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something.
After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word.
Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.
I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.
When we are ready to make positive changes in our lives, we attract whatever we need to help us.
Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops and stays... But it flows on... Like a river.
When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor.
I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I obviously had a great sense of vision. And I was right.
The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.
Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education.
In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.
On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.
Only by taking Jesus' example into every part of our lives will we be able to win in life.
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.
Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in ......the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?
Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.
Every day when a man or woman gets dressed, they are in effect defining who they are. That daily clean slate is a time in our lives when we can determine who we want to be.
The more intelligent our children, the better our lives and the richer our culture will be.
The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.
In those times we yearn to have more in our lives, we should dwell on the things we already have. In doing so, we will often find that our lives are already full to overflowing.
We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.
Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.
The quality of our lives depends not on whether or not we have conflicts, but on how we respond to them.
The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.
If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.
Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.
We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.
Value our lives because we never know what day or what time itll be over, ... Rich, famous, whatever, it just makes you appreciate just seeing today.
Mind training matters. It is not just a luxury, or a supplementary vitamin for the soul. It determines the quality of every instant of our lives.
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
I resent 'experts' who have never faced deadly threat, yet who tell me - and you - that we should not consider a response of equal power against those who would threaten our lives.
So many people com einto our lives and then leave the way they came. But there are those precious few who touch our hearts so deeply we will never be the same.
Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace.
At the end of our lives we hope we will look back and, like an incense stick completely burned away, will have poured forth all our fragrance into the world.
It is simply not for us to judge each other. The Lord has reserved that right for Himself, because only He knows our hearts and understands the varying circumstances and complexities of our lives.
Some people we know in our lives come up to a crossroads, and they could go left or right, and then end up in a totally different place.
The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.
No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I
Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.
Our lives are a mosaic of little things, like putting a rose in a vase on the table.