Quotes of: Our-community Keyword

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

The Story of a Marriage

In a sense, he thought, all we consist of is memories. Our personalities are constructed from memories, our lives are organized around memories, our cultures are built upon the foundation of shared memories that we call history and science.

Sphere

But let us be sure of something. We are not sheep. This government is ours, and it is meant to serve our best interests. And if it has grown into something it shouldn't be, and shucked off the rules of the Constitution it was based on, then it is our...

The Second Revolution

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.

Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own beliefs so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among them.

Practical Ethics

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

The Problem of Pain

The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them, not enough to impoverish our lives when they are gone.

The Pilgrim's Regress

One way to handle the discrepancy between our beliefs and our sinful inclinations is to repent, pray for grace and forgiveness, and struggle on in the belief that God will forge a greater harmony for us out of our battle with sin. That is the Christi...

Psychological Seduction

Our whole lives, it was like we were always trying so hard to be perfect - for our families and our friends, for each other - when the funny thing was, we didn't have to. In the end, we were better than that.

Paper Valentine

Whenever we suffer — no matter what the severity of our suffering is — we have the ability to find meaning in the situation.

Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and Work

…The more enormous our wealth, the more extensive our fears, all our possessions are paled up with new edicts every day, and hung round with gibbets to scare every invader.

The Vicar of Wakefield

Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places, into other peoples minds and hearts and souls: it is a transcendent experience.

Writing As A Way Of Healing: How Telling Stories Transforms Our Lives

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

Weighed and Wanting

When clouds will become heavier than the land in us led our entire life by the steps of our Destiny, we will understand that not their moments’ rain has darkened the sun of our life, but the failure to be ourselves.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

Deep down in all of us there is a tendency to want to prove ourselves, to base our worth on what we do.

You Can Change: God's Transforming Power for Our Sinful Behavior and Negative Emotions

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

If our limbic system betrays our true intentions, and it’s beyond our conscious control, then only a fool would consider lying a wise course of action. Politicians are full of such wisdom.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

Our way is not to sit to acquire something; it is to express our true nature. That is our practice.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are o...

Blanche Lincoln

Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

Gene Robinson