Quotes of: Our-lives Keyword

Even our behavior and emotions seem to have been shaped by a prankster. Why do we crave the very foods that are bad for us but have less desire for pure grains and vegetables? Why do we keep eating when we know we are too fat? And why is our willpowe...

Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

Sometimes you want to say, “I love you, but…” Yet the “but” takes away the ‘I love you’. In love their are no ‘buts’ or ‘if’s’ or ‘when’. It’s just there, and always. No beginning, no end. It’s the condition-less state...

Coco J. Ginger

I can’t hear God’s voice for my kids, but I can watch and listen and pray and adjust and try not to screw up whatever He has planned for their lives. And although I can’t make them listen to God, or even want to, I can plant enough seeds to swi...

Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives

I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge communal effort, we close our hearts. Each day a fresh holocaust, yet, as far as I can see, our moral being is untouched. We do not feel tainted....

The Lives of Animals

...we have, each of us, a story that is uniquely ours, a narrative arc that we can walk with purpose once we figure out what it is. It's the opposite to living our lives episodically, where each day is only tangentially connected to the next, where w...

Amal El-Mohtar

We have to examine the extent to which we export poverty to other societies. When we decide that we will import products from China that are produced by people earning less than a dollar an hour, and grant their country most-favored-nation status (po...

Love

We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. ... That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elements have changed, there are whole new orders of magnitude and...

Angle of Repose

For us hunting wasn’t a sport. It was a way to be intimate with nature, that intimacy providing us with wild unprocessed food free from pesticides and hormones and with the bonus of having been produced without the addition of great quantities of f...

Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog

A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Bob Harrington

All around us God is writing a grand story of His love and He invites us to let our lives fill the pages.

Closed Doors

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

The Crippled God

Health is not a physical accomplishment but the manifestation of our awareness of who we are and integrity in living out of that knowledge.

Children of Promise: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Healthy Kids

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

I’ll put it to you simply: love is the enemy. That’s my conclusion. We should all live in our little monk cells and never venture out ...

The Coming Storm

Our lives are made up of choices. Big ones, small ones, strung together by the thin air of good intentions; a line of dominoes, ready to fall.

Dangerous Boys

[Mary] says her memories Will help those of us Newly come to our Lord’s mercy, To live in His light.

Daystar Rising: A Story of the First Christmas

We can’t spend our lives wondering, ‘what if?’ We must simply make the best of what we have. -Lady Mary Wynne-Jones

Dark Desires

Truthfulness is the golden thread that binds good lives, good relationships, and our very legacy.

The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters

I recognized you instantly. All of our lives flashed through my mind in a split second. I felt a pull so strongly towards you that I almost couldn't stop it.

In Dreams

We could never muster the strength to make lasting changes in our lives. That's why we must rely on God's strength to transform us.

Eve of Awakening

Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally. "No," Sunny answered. "Me neither," Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.

The Ersatz Elevator