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Us Quotes by Kent Nerburn
- Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world.
- We must find a way to replace yearning for what life has withheld from us with gratitude for what we have been given.
- In a perfect world perhaps we would all see more clearly. But this is not a perfect world, and it is enough to hope that…
- That is why we need to travel. If we don't offer ourself to the unknown, our senses dull. Our world becomes small and we lose…
- Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens…
- We are all born with a belief in God. It may not have a name or face. We may not even see it as God.…
- It is not easy for a man to be as great as a mountain or a forest. But that is why the creator gave them…
- When all the words have been written, and all the phrases have been spoken, the great mystery of life will still remain. We may map…
- Our actions in this world, and our ability to rise above the limits of our own self-interest, live on far beyond us and play their…
- We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong