Our Lives Quotes

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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger… — Karen Armstrong
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My… — Mary Kay Ash
I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of… — David Attenborough
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are… — Saint Augustine
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets… — Diane Ackerman
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how… — George Matthew Adams
When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. — Ezra Taft Benson
The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance,… — Nicolas Berggruen
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that… — Irving Berlin
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour… — Annie Besant
Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's… — Bjork
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the… — Wade Boggs
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. — Erma Bombeck
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we… — Jorge Luis Borges
We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the… — Tom Brady
Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan. — Jo Brand
I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that… — Jo Brand
Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out. — Berkeley Breathed
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives. — William Throsby Bridges

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