M Quotes
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“Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often a lack of courage.”
Source: The 4 Seasons of Marriage: Secrets to a Lasting Marriage
“Most of us have never allowed ourselves to want what we truly want because we can't see how it's going to manifest.”
“Most of us have nicknames-annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name?It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.Ever wonder why?Your true name has the secret power to call you.”
“Most of us have no idea what we can do because we are totally conditioned by the past. Our memories, beliefs, assumptions, prejudices, and stresses conspire to trap us in one boundary after another. We need to escape from this.”
“Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them.”
“Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.”
Source: Not Dead Enough
“Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.”
“Most of us have participated in the trust exercise in which one person falls back and is caught by a peer. Even if the catch is made a hundred times in a row, the trust is broken forever if the friend lets you fall the next time as a joke. Even if he swears he is sorry and will never let you fall again, you can never fall back without a seed of doubt.”
“Most of us have probably read these chapters [1 Cor. 11--15] as if they were stand-alone works almost independent from one another. This is a by-product of the Western church's tendency to teach Bible verses as lonely snippets and chapters, as if they were self-contained silos, when we should be searching for Scripture's overarching truths. (pp. 1-2)”
Source: Something Happens Here: Reclaiming the Distinctiveness of Wesley's Communion Spirituality in Times of Divisiveness
“Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.”
“Most of us have spent our whole lives being taught to believe everyone else's opinions about our bodies, rather than to believe what our own bodies are trying to tell us. For some of us, it's been so long since we listened to our bodies, we hardly know how to start understanding what they're trying to tell us, much less how to trust and believe what they're saying. To make matters worse, the more exhausted we are, the noisier the signal is, and the harder it is to hear the message.”
Source: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
“Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the residue of all that material you absorbed over time.”
“Most of us have the tools we need, we're just not sure how to use them.”
“most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.”
“Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.”
“Most of us have to think worst-case scenario.”
“Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.”
“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.”
“Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly, and yet it often seems that we hardly remember noticing it at all while we were playing well.”
Source: The Inner Game of Music
“Most of us haven't begun to tap our own potential; we're operating way below capacity. And we'll continue as long as we are looking for someone to give us the key to the kingdom. We must realize that the kingdom is in us; and we already have the key. It's as if we're waiting for permission to start fully living.”
Source: How to Be Your Own Best Friend
“Most of us here in the media are what I call infotainers...Rush Limbaugh is what I call a disinfotainer. He entertains by spreading disinformation.”
“Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to believe that each of us is above average on any test of self-integrity. Too often we look to the stars through the thick lens of personal invulnerability when we should also look down to the slippery slope beneath our feet.”
“Most of us hoped to be able to trust. When we were little we did not yet know the human invention of the lie - not only that of lying with words but that of lying with one's voice, one's gesture, one's eyes, one's facial expression. How should the child be prepared for this specifically human ingenuity: the lie? Most of us are awakened, some more and some less brutally, to the fact that people often do not mean what they say or say the opposite of what they mean. And not only "people," but the very people we trusted most - our parents, teachers, leaders.”
Source: The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology
“Most of us human beings tend to be parochial in our perceptions. What happens is that we have a very limited and narrow view of our self interest and do not adequately weight the price that has to be paid on the other side for any of these measures we are promoting.”
“Most of us, if we’re honest about it, want to be adored and held dear in our love life. We want to reach that twentieth, or thirty-second, or forty-fifth wedding anniversary and be able to say, “She’s the love of my life, and I can’t possibly imagine a day without her,” or “He’s the very best person I know, and I am so lucky to be in love with him.” We want intimacy, we want sweetness and joy, and we want a grace-filled experience of love. But look around. Who has taught us to love well? Who has given us the skills we need to help make our genuine commitment translate itself into a daily loving practice? For many of us, the answer is: no one. No one has taught us how to do this, so we must teach ourselves.”
Source: Naked Marriage: How to Have a Lifetime of Love, Sex, Joy, and Happiness
“Most of us, in our civilized society, rely too heavily on reasoning capacity to make things happen. We've been raised to believe that logic will prevail. Logic, in and of itself, will rarely influence people. Most often logic doesn't work.”
“Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.”
“Most of us in this job — we’re not afraid of blood, or broken bodies, or danger. But… looking someone’s grief in the eye, the kind that cuts deeper than anything physical… That takes a different kind of courage.
Chapter 14”
Source: Voluntary pain
“Most of us knew in our bones that things with the world weren’t right, long before it became a crisis.”
Source: In Our Bones
“Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.”
“Most of us know exactly what it is that creates the pain, confusion, stagnation and disruption in our lives. When we find something or someone creating in our lives that which we do not want, we must muster the courage and strength to stop it.”
“Most of us know in our hearts but don’t say aloud: we are living through a period of history during which certain kinds of queers have been granted certain kinds of freedoms, but those freedoms are precarious. They may not last our lifetimes.”
Source: Evenings and Weekends
“Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.”
Source: Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons And Prayers Of Peter Marshall
“Most of us know someone who would say, 'If you want to be my friend, you'll have to accept my values.' A true friend doesn't ask us to choose between the gospel and his or her friendship. ... A true friend strengthens us to stay on the strait and narrow path.”
“Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.”
Source: The voyage of the Dawn Treader
“Most of us know what we want by seeing a lot of what we don't want.”
Source: Shrapnel Free Explosive Growth: Dynamic Insights to Grow Your Business
“Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.”
“Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways. When we find new eyes, the unsuspected blessing in work we have done for many years may take us completely by surprise. We can see life in many ways: with the eye, with the mind, with the intuition. But perhaps it is only those who speak the language of meaning, who have remembered how to see with the heart, that life is ever deeply known or served.”
“Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Most of us learn in childhood to "cope"--which is to say ignore, numb, manage, or reinterpret reality. We do it to survive, but our relational instincts get bent in the process.”
Source: All In: How to Risk Everything for Everything that Matters
“Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.”
“Most of us live a life of mediocrity. We spend our lives doing what we are expected to do. In the early stages of our lives, we try to settle in a job. Then we look for a life partner. After forty, we try to work towards our retirement funds. This is the story of the lives of most of the people around us. There might be little variances, but for the most part, the story is the same.”
Source: Know 'YOUR' Norms
“Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be!”
Source: W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais
“Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and uncomfortable. These are, to me, a part of the ordinary human condition. So I don't think I'm writing about abnormal things. ... Artists, in my experience, have very little center. They fake. They are not the real thing. They are spies. I am no exception.”
“Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is.”
“Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.”
“Most of us live in a world that has ceased to exist.”
“Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.”