Our Own Lives Quotes
148 quotes by 126 authors
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A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our…
— Robert Foster Bennett
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We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life…
— Les Brown
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The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing the…
— J. William Fulbright
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We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives…
— Kenji Miyazawa
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Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.
— Deepak Chopra
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We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan…
— Colin Powell
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We cannot expect miracles of mindfulness in our own lives without preparation, commitment & continuing to energetically progress along our spiritual way.
— Surya Das
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Spiritual seekers particularly are on a quest to understand life; we want to examine our own lives and find meaning in what we do and…
— Surya Das
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Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity. It is an…
— Dennis Kucinich
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We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.
— George Verwer
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Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But…
— Ralph Levy
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When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been…
— Joseph Campbell
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The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can actually choose the…
— Eknath Easwaran
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We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention,…
— Al Gore
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We all say in our own lives that money isn't everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn't be a…
— David Cameron
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We must see that God operates not only in us but in others as well. God also operates in our so-called enemies. But these are…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Not completely, but neither of us gets mad when the other doesn't text back or call. Life's super-busy. Obviously you know what they're doing, and…
— Jennifer Lawrence
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I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.
— Tom Hiddleston
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The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we are not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic spotlight…
— Marianne Williamson
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At the end of the day, we are responsible for our own lives. If anything happens to us, don't blame somebody else. Backtrack and look…
— Isaac Hayes
Who Wrote These Our Own Lives Quotes
126 authors contributed a total of 148 Our Own Lives Quotes, led by these top contributors: