Quotes of: Our-lives Keyword

Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live our lives as a giant struggle between good and evil, Satan and God, despair and love. Whenever despair wins, it is the natural way. Whenever love wins...

Things That Matter

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take ...

Voices of the Night

...it does not matter if we are forgotten; what matters is the effect we have on those around us and those who come after us. What matters is how our own lives affect the larger, perpetual community of the living.

Walking Home: A Traveler in the Alaskan Wilderness, a Journey into the Human Heart

Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us to feel the texture of them and not be afraid of them.Writing is still the wildest thing I k...

Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life

God has written us a book, and now we have the opportunity to respond with our words and actions.

A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out together. We have a very specific pattern of ties, and they have a particular shape and structure that is encoded in our genes. It means...

Nicholas A. Christakis

I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life growing up. My father was very much adamant that we would learn about our culture. It's a very rich culture to be a part of since it has such a great his...

Marina and the Diamonds

I've always wondered what it would be like if the Messiah, or Christ Returned, were actually alive and living in our society; who would that person be, how we would identify them, how would they live and what would they believe in, how would society ...

James Frey

I never knew him. We both knew this place, apparently, this literal small backwater, looked at it long enough to memorize it, our years apart. How strange. And it's still loved, or its memory is (it must have changed a lot). Our visions coincided--'v...

Geography III

Our simple daily decisions can become our best friend or our worst enemy. They can draw us towards our goals or send us orbiting into a galaxy far, far away. These are the days of our lives. We are offered choices every day; sickness or health, pover...

The Proverbs 31 Lady: Unveiling Her Secrets Before Saying I Do

Sometimes I have the feeling that what takes place is identical to what doesn't take place, what we dismiss or allow to slip by us identical to what we accept and seize, what we experience identical to what we never try, and yet we spend our lives in...

Javier Marías

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Bertrand Russell

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

Robert Cray

But this time is ours, and we cannot live hating ourselves

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

No Man Is an Island

There are other beings live in between interval rhythms of our consciousness.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

You, me---we're not the same, but we---our lives---somehow fit together.

Where the Heart Leads

If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.

S. Jay Olshansky

Virtues are the internal qualities that allow us to be our best selves and enable us to lead complete and fulfilling lives.

Jonathan V. Last