“We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.” IfsKnowsWayWantLoveGivingDoeEarthValuesLove IsOur LivesGoes OnImportanceStrongerWhat You WantGravesEndlessLove Death Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“Rebuilding us. Isn't that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to make our lives our own affirmation? We are perfect expressions of perfect Love, here and now. There is no permanent injury.” SometimesSpiritPerfectOur LivesExpressionGoes OnPermanentInjuryClimbsAffirmationHere And NowRebuildingPerfect LoveWreckage Author:Richard Bach
“The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on” PeopleWorldWantChildrenMadeDifferentHelpingLightRunningLyingParentTeachOur LivesGoes OnAdultsStructureDinnerListsTeethFatsFairyLive ByConventionalEasterFrozenHighwaysSantaFairytaleSanta ClausBunniesConventional WisdomTooth FairyEaster Bunny Book:Hilarity Ensues Source: Hilarity Ensues
“... Providence conducts us with so much kindness through the different periods of our life, that we scarcely feel the change; our days glide gently and imperceptibly along, like the motion of the hour-hand, which we cannot discover. ... we advance gradually; we are the same to-day as yesterday, and to-morrow as to-day: thus we go on, without perceiving it, which is a miracle of the Providence I adore.” FeelsDifferentHandsHoursKindnessOur LivesGoes OnPeriodsMiracleYesterdayProvidenceAdoreMorrow Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“We all want to inspire! As we go on our life's journey, some people inspire us and in turn, we would like to do something to inspire other people.” PeopleWantTurnsOur LivesJourneyInspireGoes OnInspire Others Author:Barbara Padilla
“"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the deaths, all the cruelties, there's still something that keeps us wanting to wake up the next morning and go on with our lives - to make children, to fall in love, to continue humanity.” WorldChildrenStillsWarHumanityFallNextMorningOur LivesGoes OnHorrorWake UpFalling In LoveCrueltyUps & Downs Author:Paul Auster
“Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.” HumansChildrenReasonBornDarkHellForeverOur LivesSkyGoes OnColdBearsBoundsHeavyFatsSmokeLackingOblivionEvent HorizonSuffocating Author:Alan Moore
“Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it-and then you will be safe.” ThinkingLongSelfOur LivesGoes OnPleaseSafeBehaviorMessagesHundredRegardContact Author:Swami Vivekananda
“No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones, practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.” IfsShouldHardNaturalChanceSimpleStudyOur LivesGoes OnExerciseSentencesLeapBreaking DownTranscendenceAccuracyFugue Author:Adrienne Rich
“One of the things I've realized in my decades on this planet is that the world goes on no matter what, and if we are to survive with any amount of grace we all need little oases of tranquility and sanity in our lives. For me, an evening of wine in good company is just such a place.” IfsWorldNeedsLittlesMatterCompanyGraceOur LivesPlanetsGoes OnAmountNo Matter WhatWineDecadesEveningSanityTranquilityGood CompanyOasis Author:Dave Chambers
“The possibility to go on indefinitely with our lives may become a reality and it will present us with a temptation.” MayRealityOur LivesPossibilityGoes OnTemptation Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“Let the Democrates go on making its case for more government control over every aspect of our lives. More taxes to pay. More debt to carry. More rules to follow. More judges who just make it up as they go along. We Republicans, we are committed to a federal government that acts again as a servant accountable to the people, following the constitution, and venturing not one inch beyond the consent of the governed. We, we in this party, offer a better way for our country based on fundamentals that go back to the founding generation.” PeopleWayCountryGovernmentPartyPayCasesOur LivesGenerationsJudgingGoes OnRepublicanOffersTaxesAspectConstitutionFundamentalsCommittedFollowingDebtOur CountryServantInchesConsentFederal GovernmentFoundingBetter WaysConsent Of The Governed Author:Paul Ryan
“One way to fuel the brain to make more decisions is to feed it carbs. So as the day goes on, you start to crave more carbs - especially women, because women tend to make more of the day-to-day decisions in our lives than men.” MenWayDecisionBrainOur LivesGoes OnOne WayFuelDay To DayCraveCarbs Author:Mehmet Oz
“Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.” HelpingHumorHappinessJoyLossOur LivesKeysGoes OnElementsLaughterCategories Author:Allen Klein
“If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.” PeopleIfsTryingLooksSelfBodyChoicesLevelsFocusOur LivesSelf EsteemGoes OnIncludingEsteemGet BetterTime Goes On Author:Queen Latifah
“My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.” HeartSoulHandsPurposeGirlEnergyOur LivesGoes OnMy HeartHolyHealthyHeart And SoulScoutingGirl ScoutHearts And Hands Author:Juliette Gordon Low
“However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.” MayWholeFacesEmotionOur LivesGoes OnSceneConfusedTornConfused LoveBeing Confused Author:Muriel Rukeyser
“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.” LoveYearsBelieveStillsOur LivesRelationshipDangerousSweetFailureMonthsGoes OnLoversMen And WomenProgramResponsibleBlameAddSeriesPartnersFulfillmentNovelistsDimensionsWeddingPartnershipOur RelationshipFulfillingGet OverIncompleteLove RelationshipFunny RelationshipPolygamyDeludedCompletingRelationships With OthersStill Life With WoodpeckerLove And RelationshipLong RelationshipRelationship Over Author:Tom Robbins