M Quotes
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“Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.”
“Most of us spend ourselves trying to be something that we’re not. And if we’d just spend that energy on growing into who we are, we’ll rather quickly discover that who we’re not is something that we’ll be glad we’re not.”
“Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are.”
Source: An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
“Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.”
“Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.”
“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”
Source: The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey
“Most of us spend years chasing things in this world that we think will make us feel loved. But everything this world has to offer is temporary. Everything. The kind of love our souls crave is lasting, eternal. And only God can fill up our hearts with that kind of love.”
“Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.”
“Most of us start as strangers and eventually again become strangers.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do if I was going to write another novel - was move towards something like sincerity.”
“Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.”
“Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated pretty clearly that this value cannot compel a civilization-wide shift toward sustainable behavior and enterprise when stacked up against the urgent economic and social needs of 7 billion people, most of whom are struggling to get out of poverty.”
“Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.”
“Most of us suffer from a kind of myopia. We see only the things that fit in with our beliefs about the world.”
Source: Kin Dread
“Most of us suffer from the pangs of self-doubt; yet, the courage to tread forward must originate from within. I seek to articulate a definitive purpose behind my effort and then resolve to devote all interpersonal resources to achieve established goals. I need to be mindful of personal talents and imperfections, boldly face all fears, bravely straddle the unknown, and unerringly establish high-minded objectives. I must exhibit determination, resilience, and courage to give my best effort and never slacken a resolute pace. A seeker is obligated to be truthful; I cannot engage in self-deception if I hope to develop the integrity of my spirit. Comparable to all worthwhile tests of character, a person seeking growth must ultimately conquer his or her insecurities and discover a means to muster flagging personal fortitude. Can I throttle back from the black lagoon or did I travel too far as a chainless soul up the river of insanity to turn back now? Can I reintegrate myself in a normative world where self-preservation and reasonableness reigns? Can I conduct a Black Ops reconnaissance operation by reconfiguring the organs of a dismembered self with reawakened astuteness, and exhibit the determined stoicism indicative of my ancestor lineage?”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.”
“Most of us take seeds for granted. The fate of human kind is resting on these genetic
resources: Seeds. So nothing could be more important.”
“Most of us tend to suffer from 'agenda anxiety', the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what we think they might want to say to us.”
Source: Communicate Like Pro
“Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real condition of children in America, however, see a very different picture-one in which children are victims of terrible discrimination, prejudice, and abuse. They need protection. But the protection they need most is to have the protection of civil rights, so that they can be regarded as full persons under the law.”
“Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.”
“Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.”
“Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until you really start to look inside the system and you see, this is not right.”
“Most of us think that being authentic is about being true to what we want and who we are, without regard for the impact it has on others. On the contrary, the authentic self is an intelligence at the core of who we are that is inspired, centered, and connected to those we lead. When we are in this centered place of being we are able to choose behavior that serves the greatest good.”
Source: Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
“Most of us think that decisions such as where shall I live, with whom shall I partner, what shall I pick as a career for my life are the most important decisions that we make. But from the point of view of the universe these decisions are not that important. Within you, you have already made decisions about who you are, what the universe is and how you will relate to other people and how you will relate to the universe and these decisions are creating consequences in your life moment by moment.”
“Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought.”
Source: Lectures to My Students
“Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three to six hours a week - or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 - 165 hours of the week.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“Most of us think we've had more trouble than we deserve.”
“Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.”
“Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.”
Source: Fear of Nothing
“Most of us try to use our emotions and thoughts to lead a fulfilling life, which, for want of awareness, fails to be as fulfilling as we want it to be.”
“Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.”
“Most of us, unless we have consciously taken control of our thoughts, bully ourselves. There is no bigger bully than you. You would never talk to your friends or family the way you talk to yourself and yet you wonder why your life is a mess.”
“Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action. Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday? Or to go on your last vacation? Or exercise this morning? Probably not, but you still did it. The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.”
Source: Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
“Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"”
“Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.”
“Most of us want most of all to be loved by someone who cared about us for ourselves, not for what we can do for them. For many, the search is bitter and fruitless.”
Source: Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
“Most of us want to be authentic. Yet, we are not who we think we are. We are made up of a rich array of facets and possibilities, many of which we ignore because we label them as “bad”. We create a cardboard cutout image of ourselves to look good to others. The discord between who we are and the image we have to live up to slowly kills our aliveness. When we suppress parts of ourselves, it lowers our mojo, sense of fulfillment, leadership effectiveness and impact in the workplace.”
Source: Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
“Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.”
“Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.”
“Most of us want to tell our coworkers or friends, or husbands or wives, our ideas. For what reason? We want validation. But I feel ideas are most vulnerable in their infancy. Out of love and concern, friends and family give all the reasons or objections on why [you] shouldn't do it. I didn't want to risk that.”
“Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.”
“Most of us waste this extraordinary thing called life. We have lived forty or sixty years, have gone to the office, engaged ourselves in social activity, escaping in various forms, and at the end of it, we have nothing but an empty, dull, stupid life, a wasted life.
Now, pleasure has created this pattern of social life. We take pleasure in ambition, in competition, in acquiring knowledge or power, or position, prestige, status. And that pursuit of pleasure as ambition, competition, greed, envy, status, domination, power is respectable. It is made respectable by a society which has only one concept: that you shall lead a moral life, which is a respectable life. You can be ambitious, you can be greedy, you can be violent, you can be competitive, you can be a ruthless human being, but society accepts it, because at the end of your ambition, you are either so called successful man with plenty of money, or a failure and therefore a frustrated human being. So social morality is immorality.”
“Most of us. We lose ourselves, friends and loved ones. We lose good memories , lessons, and opportunities. We lose good times, satisfaction, and pleasures. It is because we live our lives trying to prove a point to everyone. We constantly without fail, daily hurt ourselves and always being miserable by trying to show them. We are fighting ourselves, our hearts, feelings, minds, conscious and nature, because we trying to be seen as good people. We are not allowing us to be humans, to feel, to experience, to love, to live because we want to be seen as better than everyone. That is why even when we have achieved everything we wanted. We are still empty inside, unsatisfied, lonely , hurt, miserable and incomplete. There is a part of us missing. It is missing because we were not true to ourselves. Be true to yourself.”
Source: The Theory of 46 Be's
“Most of us were fortunate enough to be born with the Blue pill until the RED pill eventually found us.”
“Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a man.”
Source: Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War
“Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.”
“Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.”
Source: So Much to Live for
“Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes. But we walk a narrow path with pitfalls on either side. If we spend all our time developing equipment, we risk the appellation of "plumber," and if we merely use the tools developed by others, we risk the censure of our peers for being parasitic.”
“Most of us who champion free speech also believe in the idea of etiquette and the social contract. We simply do not believe that such parameters should be legally enforced by censorship or compelled speech diktats.”
Source: The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World