M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Most of us, follow sex and money; we live for that, and we die for that. Is it truth, judge your heart and mind and be honest with yourself?”
“Most of us forget the basics and wonder why the specifics don't work.”
“Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. Gratitude is a many-colored quality, reaching in all directions. It goes out for small things and for large; it is a God-ward going.”
“Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.”
Source: Warranted Christian Belief
“Most of us generate more planet-warming emissions from eating than we do from driving or flying. Food production now accounts for about a fifth of total greenhouse gas emissions annually, which means agriculture contributes more than any other sector, including energy and transportation to climate change”
Source: The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
“Most of us get our history through story.”
“Most of us get turned on at night by the very things that we'll demonstrate against during the day.”
“Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what we find.”
“Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the 'time to be right' to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“Most of us go through life in the same way that I go through Fortnite. We hope problems don’t arise, and when they do, panic overwhelms us.”
“Most of us go through life praying a little, planning a little, jockeying for position, hoping but never being quite certain of anything, and always secretly afraid that we will miss the way. This is a tragic waste of truth and never gives rest to the heart.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“Most of us go through the world never seeing anything. Then you meet somebody like Herb and Dorothy, who have eyes that see. Something goes from the eye to the soul without going through the brain.”
“Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.”
“Most of us grew up with a very damaging story that something is wrong with us. Gradually - or as in my case, suddenly - we become resolved not to believe this anymore. It takes a dedicated practice to follow up on that resolution, because the conditioning is very strong to keep generating self-demeaning stories.”
“Most of us grow up with a sense of "I'm not intelligent enough." It's such a sad thing that in the West we worship a certain kind of left-brain intelligence.”
“Most of us had never seen a sober redneck before, and we have the Reagan Landslide to testify that none of us ever wants to see one again. It was a horrifying apparition. And ever since Jimmy Carter, all of us rednecks have had to be very careful to be drunk rednecks lest we turn into some kind of awful creature with big buck teeth and a State Department full of human-rights yahoos.”
“Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.”
“Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks.”
“Most of us have a few events that divide our lives into “before” and “after.”
Source: Doing Sixty & Seventy
“Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems.”
“Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.”
“Most of us have an incredibly refined sense of smell. Scents are highly personal, so when scenting our homes it's really important to consider everyone living there, as preferences and tolerance levels can vary hugely.”
Source: Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing
“Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected from nature. Nature's extreme absence in our lives leaves us abandoned and wanting. We feel we never have enough. We greedily, destructively, consume and, can't stop. Nature's loss in our psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void within us that bullies us into our dilemmas.”
Source: The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems
“Most of us have been deeply shaped by the false notion that in order for people to behave better they need to feel worse and be punished. In practice, we see that humans are, in fact, far more likely to change in desirable ways when they are more resourced, not less.”
Source: Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
“Most of us have been raised to live our lives focused on seeking approval from some outer influence, like a parent, teacher, or peers, rather than to trust and connect with our True Self, our own soft, still voice within.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend to shy away from it.”
“Most of us have both ways that we are privileged and ways that we are discounted.
I am a woman, and women have historically not owned their own lives, having once been the property of fathers and husbands, the acclaim and remuneration for their finest work given to others, and still evolving from that reality.
As a white woman/mother/artist from a middle class family in the twentieth century?
I have lived a life of such privilege, with so much support provided me.
I have lived a life of such deprivation of opportunity and lack of recognition.
Sometimes my head spins from the contradictory co-existing reality of it...
How have you had privilege in your life?
How can you do better for those who have not?”
“Most of us have collections of sayings we live by. . . . Whenever words fly up at me from the printed page as I read, I intercept them instantly, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard.”
“Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.”
“Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment.”
Source: Creating True Prosperity
“Most of us have developed a fairly extensive vocabulary for describing pain, as though the journal were a doctor requiring much detail to make the correct diagnosis. The roundness of the spiritual journey cannot be expressed without developing an equally extensive vocabulary for talking to ourselves and others about the nature of wonder, joy, ecstasy, love, transfiguration.”
Source: Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest
“Most of us have enough areas in our lives where we have to meet others' expectations. Let your running be about your own hopes and dreams.”
Source: Meb For Mortals: How to Run, Think, and Eat like a Champion Marathoner
“Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.”
“Most of us have experienced wow moments. We just haven't taken time to think deeply about them.”
Source: Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World
“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.”
“Most of us have felt barriers between ourselves and our fathers and had thought that going it alone was part of what it meant to be a man. We tried to get close to our children when we became fathers, and yet the business of practicing masculinity kept getting in the way. We men have begun to talk about that.”
“Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.”
“Most of us have grown up, you know, I think there are very few people who have grown up in a home that was, like, super normal. You know, we all have dispositions because maybe you didn't have a mom or you didn't have a dad, maybe your mom died early or maybe mom and dad argued or they got a divorce or who knows? You have issues that maybe you've started younger or maybe you have your own issues because you have them.”
“Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.”
“Most of us have had the experience of sitting by the seashore or on a mountaintop, simply enjoying the beauty of nature, relaxed, content, and present.
We've probably also had the experience of sitting by the seashore or on a mountaintop and missing it completely.
Being present - or not - is a basic human experience.”
“Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.”
“Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.”
“Most of us have just learned to exercise our survival muscle. It's time to build our victory muscle.”
“Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.”
“Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.”
“Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an affirmation of beauty. Most of us do not today believe that whatever the ups and down of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.”
“Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others. But make no mistake: you are alone in the world. You were born alone, even if you were born conjoined. And you die alone, unable to bring a single person with you.”
“Most of us have loved. And the terror for a writer is that readers will forgive you so much, but they won't forgive you one false note about love, about which they too are expert.”
“Most of us have made the mistake that after they crossed the Red Sea they spent 40 years in the wilderness fighting amongst each other.”
“Most of us have moments, no matter how big or tiny, that affect us greatly in life. It's inevitable that we will all make mistakes and experience things we wish we hadn't. These good and bad memories will always live and breathe in our minds but it's how much we let them affect our everyday lives that is important. Do we let these thoughts and stories define us? Or can we see them for what they are: moments. Slices of time that occurred, had a directional purpose in our lives, then moved and changed into a new moment.”
Source: Happy: Finding Joy in Every Day and Letting Go of Perfect