Quotes of: Our-lives Keyword

Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.

Out of Africa

When we stop fighting against death, we are able to wake up to our lives.

Letters to Sam: A Grandfather's Lessons on Love, Loss, and the Gifts of Life

In the words of Lynne McTaggart: "Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turns the possibility of something into something real. The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observes it.

The Lost Symbol

If you told me today our being together would result in heartbreak I would still choose to be with you because I believe that truly living life is in the experiences not the outcomes.

Love and Truth

Instead of allowing wealth and resources to change us, we must choose to allow God to change our way of thinking about wealth and resources

Living Justice: Revolutionary Compassion in a Broken World

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

The happiest days of our lives [are] days such as this when one’s work [begins] to reach fruition and to assume the contours of its imminent completion. (A. Herzbruch, in A Murder at Dragon Bay)

A Murder at Dragon Bay

Art is magic, and art is powerful. Art saves lives- I really believe that. It gives us courage and compassion we might not have on our own.

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

We have to live within the framework of our limitations and the mistakes we make. Argue with Destiny, but never try to wrestle it into submission. If you do, you’ll end up losing.

Spiral Road

Escape was not our goal since it was so unrealistic. What we wanted was to survive, to live long enough to tell the world what had happened in Buchenwald.

Saving Children: Diary Of A Buchenwald Survivor And Rescuer

If this society ascribes roles to Black men which they are not allowed to fulfill, is it Black women who must bend and alter our lives to compensate, or is it society that needs changing?

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

I teach our young men that respect is earned each day on the practice field, in the classroom, and how each young man lives his life.

Team Of One: We Believe

Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?

Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish easting it nor ever digest it. It has to be vomited.

A Prayer Journal

We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are.

Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living

It is not so much the grand dramas of our lives that transform us as it is the tiny one-acts we produce in between.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

Plan 9 From Outer Space: The Original Uncensored And Uncut Screenplay

The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life

The Prophet of Zongo Street: Stories

Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too that without love we grope the tunnels of our lives and never see the sun.

The Passion

From the house of unbelief to true religion is a single breath; From the world of doubt to certainty is a single breath; Enjoy this precious single breath, for the harvest of our whole lives is that same one breath.

Quatrains - Ballades

We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.

Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices & Priorities of a Winning Life