Quotes on Our Lives

We live but a fraction of our lives.

Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.

By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

If we believe in magic, we'll live a magical life. If we believe our life is defined by narrow limits, we've suddenly made those beliefs real.

It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view.

Our lives are entwined with the people over the footlights. We are a part of them.

What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?

The most important thing is practice in daily life; then you can _x000D_ know gradually the true value of religion. Doctrine is not meant for _x000D_ mere knowledge, but for the improvement of our minds. In order to do _x000D_ that, it must be part of our life. If you put religious doctrine in _x000D_ a building and when you leave the building depart from the practices, _x000D_ you cannot gain its value.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When we’re distressed and go to therapy, our therapist’s job is to help us tell our story. Life doesn’t come with plots; it’s messy and chaotic; life is one damn, inexplicable thing after another. And we can’t have that. We insist on meaning. And so we tell stories so that our lives make sense.

hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasures we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives.

The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.

The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.

It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?

Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God’s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins.

Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.