Best Our Life Wisdom
1350 Our Life quotes by 801 unique authors
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We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.
— Jack Kornfield
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We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.
— Jack Kornfield
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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
— Jack Kornfield
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When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.
— Jack Kornfield
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Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest…
— Dorothy Day
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We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives…
— Robert Bly
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The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Every moment of our life is important.
— Sakyong Mipham
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The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried…
— Marcel Proust
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Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain of…
— Howard Barker
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Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.
— Sergei Dovlatov
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Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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For though we stubbornly cling, believing in our moment of hunger that there is no other possibility of love, we only have to let go…
— Mark Nepo
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Life is all business. Spend your energy to get joy, happiness, evolution, and to gain more ability to enjoy. In this field we spend our…
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of setting personal worthy…
— M. Russell Ballard
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All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus calls it, are moulding your destiny for good or evil; in…
— Emmet Fox
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The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or…
— William H. Gass
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I humbly believe our life is to learn our nothingness and His being everything; when we agree with Him that we are nothing and not…
— Charles George Gordon
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What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
— Bill Crawford
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Our greatest heart-treasure is a knowledge that there is in creation an individual to whom our existence is necessary - some one who is part…
— Miles Franklin
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People are very proud of Newcastle, very proud to come from here. This is a working class City and they just want to enjoy themselves…
— Alan Shearer
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The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret…
— Matthieu Ricard
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We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs to be our…
— Annie Leonard
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Something similar happens on the other side of the equation: Giving kindness does us as much good as receiving it. . . . The true…
— Piero Ferrucci
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