We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.
In our lives, we need some hope to be able to proceed to the next ladder, without it, we're failures.
The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
People come in and out of our lives continually. Some are blessings, some are lessons, and on rare occasions, they're both.
We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
The only currency that we really have to spend during our lives is time. Everything else is just a sub-category.
Sometimes there are things in our lives that aren’t meant to stay. Sometimes the changes we don’t want are the changes we need to grow." - W.J. Dlor
We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.
Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given.
People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
We pride ourselves on our democratic traditions, but in Canada, women couldn't vote until 1918, Asians until 1948, and First Nations people living on reserves until 1960.
I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives.
It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.
There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. R...
I can't say this strongly enough, but our feelings about ourselves are actually the most important barometer for determining the condition of our lives!
Above all, consider this: The greatest gift we can give ourselves, our children, and our world is to live well and love well.
If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals...
