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Our Lives Quotes - Page 13

...we make our lives by what we love.

...we make our lives by what we love.

John Cage
Live By, Our Lives
John Cage (1961). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.114, Wesleyan University Press

Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Energy, Action, Our Lives

The heart is the place where our life gets its direction.

Jim George
Heart, Our Lives
Jim George (2008). “A Man After God's Own Heart: Devoting Your Life to What Really Matters”, p.102, Harvest House Publishers

The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.

Jim C. Hines
Definitions, Definition Of Beauty, Our Lives

Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to make peace with that place.

Jeffrey Stepakoff
Making Peace, Our Lives
Jeffrey Stepakoff (2011). “The Orchard: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

Jeanette Winterson
Literature, Dies, Our Lives

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

Jean Plaidy
Deep Thought, Sophia, Our Lives
Jean Plaidy (2010). “The Captive of Kensington Palace: (Queen Victoria)”, p.76, Random House

We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives.

James Salter
Spills, Knows, Our Lives
James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.36, Vintage

There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut.

James Patterson
Nuts, Emphasis, Our Lives

Life has gotten in the way of our life.

J.R. Ward
Way, Our Lives
J.R. Ward (2009). “Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.333, Penguin

it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

Ivy Compton-Burnett
Mind, Our Lives
Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.23, A&C Black

Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!

Ingrid Betancourt
Gone, Seconds, Our Lives

A genuine desire to be ONE enhances our lives with peace and power.

Hugh W. Pinnock
Desire, Genuine, Our Lives

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

Howard Zinn
Doe, Ifs, Our Lives
Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.201, Beacon Press

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.

Herman Wouk
Thinking, Hours, Our Lives
Herman Wouk (1951). “The Caine mutiny: a novel of World War II.”, Garden City

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Herbert Spencer
Ignorance, Our Lives
Herbert Spencer (1852). “A theory of population, deduced from the general law of animal fertility. Republ. from The Westm. review”, p.31

Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.

Henry David Thoreau
Crisis, Our Lives, Seasons

The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.

Helen Mirren
Understanding, Important, Our Lives

Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.

Haruki Murakami
Way, Our Lives

Freedom from clinging allows us bring love into all aspects of our life.

Gil Fronsdal
Clinging, Aspect, Our Lives

We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives.

Geneen Roth
Understanding, Doorways, Our Lives

The way we live out our days is the way we will live our lives.

Francis Chan
Way, Our Lives
Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.123, David C Cook

we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.

Erica Jong
Writing, Our Lives, Ifs
Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.155, Penguin

Every bit of our lives revolves around how we get from one place to another and how long it's going to take to get there and what time of day you have to leave to do it.

Donna Edwards
Long, Time Of Day, Our Lives

More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.

Donald McCaig
Decision, Care, Our Lives
Donald McCaig (2007). “Rhett Butler's People”, p.122, Macmillan

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