I Quotes
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“In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process.”
Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition
“In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony”
“In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.”
“In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror.”
“In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.”
“In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.”
“In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside whose gates at night the willingly betrayed husband waits in his motorcar. The circumstances were slightly.”
Source: The Mimic Men
“In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.”
“In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.”
Source: The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life
“In our lands, the prophesies say:
‘Offered then denied,
Bride of Morning,
Dark’s only hope of peace.
A deal with death he strikes,
And from his mouth springs truth
To save the morning light.’”
Source: Dusk Covenant
“In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.”
“In our large cities, the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm. These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers, and appetites walking. How is it people manage to live on,--so aimless as they are? After their peppercorn aims are gained, it seems as if the lime in their bones alone held them together, and not any worthy purpose.”
Source: The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In our laws...by the oath which they prescribe, we appeal to the Supreme Being so to deal with us hereafter as we observe the obligation of our oaths. The Pagan world...are without the mighty influence of this principle which is proclaimed in the Christian system.”
“In our learning, let us not neglect the fountain of revelation. The scriptures and the words of modern-day apostles and prophets are the sources of wisdom, divine knowledge, and personal revelation to help us find answers to all the challenges in life. Let us learn of Christ; let us seek out that knowledge which leads to peace, truth, and the sublime mysteries of eternity.”
“In our life as a civilized person in the industrial age, we are invaded by objects; how could an object have a "force" when it no longer has individuality?”
“In our life journey, people come and go in life. Some people can come to your life to hunt you and have a negative impact; why do some come to your life to stand up for you and have a positive impact on your life.”
“In our life there are moments when we have to move forward...Regardless of how others may see us. Even if I make a mistake, I wont regret it!”
“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.”
“In our life there is one side which is finite and another side which is infinite. I want you to think about both the sides and design the best life and stand in their true values.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“in our life we meet people who want to share with others and so multiply their possibilities, but unfortunately there are also egoists who think only of their own selves and stay after alone
In ons leven ontmoeten we mensen die graag met anderen delen en zo hun mogelijkheden vergroten, maar helaas zijn er ook egoïsten die alleen aan zichzelf denken en uiteindelijk alleen achterblijven”
“In our life, you didn’t have a crime, and then they go investigate it, they were investigating you, to see what crime you might commit.”
Source: Mafia Democracy: How Our Republic Became a Mob Racket
“In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible.”
“In our lives a dog is a dog rather than a former wolf, and it surely is not a cat, a difference that means an enormous amount to some people.”
“In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between our deliberate strategies and the unanticipated alternatives that emerge.”
“In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.”
“In our lives, the true assets are not money but memories. Always remember to touch every one you meet with appropriate love, kindness, and compassion. Let go of the past and forgive the past with true love. Incorporate the wisdom that you learn into your future.”
“In our lives we face so many wars in which each of them has so many battles. all we go through based on our believe we will live better when we win them. there are no hard battles or easy battles..... they are all the same. however in each war we go through, the first battle is the hardest.”
“In our lives we have known hell and heaven; the final balance, however, is that we helped pave the way to dynamic harmony in this earthly house. That, I believe, is the meaning of this live.”
“In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether occupy a bare one per cent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine per cent is just living in waiting.”
Source: The Setting Sun
“In our lives, we need some hope to be able to proceed to the next ladder, without it, we're failures.”
“In our lives we will encounter many challenges, and tomorrow we face one together. How we accept the challenge and attack the challenge head on is only about us-no one can touch that. If we win or lose this weekend, it will not make a difference in our lives. But why we play and how we play will make a difference in our lives forever.”
“In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.”
“In our lives, on average, we will be asleep for a total of 8,477 days. If we're lucky, some of that time will be sleeping next to someone we love.”
“In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.”
“In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.”
“In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again.”
“In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.”
“In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.”
Source: Lavinia
“In our love for our church and our holy regard for those who lead us in the things of God, we forget the nature of humanity. We are not surprised by the evil pressing in from without, but we are blind to the potential for wickedness that slumbers in our own souls. We forget that humans are a combination of greatness and grief, of righteous might and disgusting sin. In our sentimentality about our church and those we love in it, we forget to stand guard against the natural failings of humanity. We turn off our deflector shields and cast aside our filters and begin to ignore the signals our inner radar may be sending.”
“In our love for the people we are born again, not as petty animals fighting the trivial battles of tribalism, but as genuine humans - humans who can think - humans who can feel - humans who can act.”
Source: Servitude is Sanctitude
“In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure... and forget that there is a difference.”
“In our male-oriented God phase, it's always about conquering and control of life and death. This power leads to a kind of thinking that is no thinking; it is only sterile and what can overcome. To reach that depth in terms of female divinity is to accept nurture as godly. It's not just something that your mom does for you when something's broken and you need a bandage; it's about something deeper and it is in contradistinction from the endless displays of power.”
“In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, cursesmix with tears; and the sigh and the sob furnish the bass to the shrill octave of those who laugh to drown buried griefs of their own.”
Source: THE TALES OF THE SEA - Premium Collection: 10 Maritime Novels & Adventure Classics in One Volume: Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket, Israel Potter, Billy Budd, Sailor, Benito Cereno & The Encantadas (Based on the Author's Experiences on a Cargo Ship & US Navy Service)
“In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out of it-all should be done as becomes the gospel (Phil. 1:27).”
“In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?”
“In our mature years, we fall in love knowing that the person is broken, it makes love even more attractive and beautiful knowing that we are broken ourselves, and we want to write the last chapter of our life in love”
“In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.”
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.”
Source: About Grace: A Novel
“In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated, friends and foes and kin, with no distinction among them. We have to mourn every one of them, because our memories have made them as much a part of us as our bones or our skin. If we don't, we've no right to remember anything at all.”
“In our memory, only two kinds of feeling can remain vividly: love and hate. Love recalls how many years we could live, but hate how many years we only existed, wasting the given opportunities to live.”