Quotes of: American-lives Keyword

By our ideas on how others 'ought to be' we rod ourselves of the chance to know them for who they already are. - See beyond the limits of your expectation.

Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life

Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own...

Varley O'Connor

We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand that the living world cannot be replicated.

Hole in the Sky: A Memoir

It was then, there in the darkness, with only those little pin-points of light to see by, light from a world away where other people with their own problems and their own secrets lived their own lives, that everything in our world changed for good.

Harmless

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

The Handmaid's Tale

Everyone, no matter how historically famous or modernly praised, has no idea about the ultimate truth of what it means to be human.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Understanding your importance does not minimize those around you, it brings fulfillment to everyone.

Have it Your Way: A Practical Guide to Living Life on Your Terms

I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

So by being created, you are automatically made manifest within a system in which you are directly associated with your creator, and it is this association that we define as a relationship.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

Keep clearly in mind the following truth: the things we keep foremost in our mind get our attention, and whatever gets our attention, gets done!

It's Your Life, Live BIG

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

Ideology: An Introduction

Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn’t that Jesus healed a leper, but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

We are not what we own; we are what we do, what we think and who we love.

The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide: How to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify Your Life

Obviously the choices of other people affect our lives, but we are the primary creators of our experience.

Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores the Michael Teachings

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.

KISS Life "Life is what you make it"

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

To Kill a Mockingbird

For one who is chosen to be among all the living, there is hope. For a living dog is better than a dead lion. While there is breath, there is hope. Even in hopeless situations, there is hope that the situation changes for the better.

Refreshment in Refuge

The happiest people are the ones who can build a firm foundation of awesomeness out of the stones people have thrown at them.

Stairway to Awesomeness!: 30 Fundamental Steps to Living a Life of Awesomeness!