“New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.” KnowsCultureOur LivesBirthMajorsMusic IsNew OrleansParts Of LifeMilestoneResidual Author:Wendell Pierce
“Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else.” KnowsMeanResponsibilityAcceptingGreaterTeacherOur LivesStreetsKingsYogaTasksEnlightenedHinduism Author:Frederick Lenz
“Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.” KnowsAsksKnow HowOur LivesRootsQuests Author:Richard Saul Wurman
“Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us to touch human misery, to touch the suffering flesh of others. He hopes that we will stop looking for those personal or communal niches which shelter us from the maelstrom of human misfortune and instead enter into the reality of other people’s lives and know the power of tenderness. Whenever we do so, our lives become wonderfully complicated and we experience intensely what it is to be a people, to be part of a people.” PeopleKnowsWantHumansKindSometimesRealityChristianSufferingJesusLordOur LivesArmsMiseryComplicatedFleshWoundsLengthMisfortunesTendernessShelterTemptedWant UNicheMaelstrom Book:The Joy of the Gospel Source: The Joy of the Gospel
“When I left 'Days of Our Lives,' I was like, 'I don't know if I'm ever working again. I'm going to do the best I can. If it happens, great. If not, well... it sucks for me.” IfsKnowsWellsI CanHappensLeftOur LivesDo The Best Author:Lindsay Hartley
“The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely.” KnowsTryingEnoughStoriesSeemsOur LivesSceneLateLove StoryFamiliarRiddleEludeElude UsMeaning Nothing Author:Jeanette Winterson
“It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.” KnowsWayEyeKidsFallEasyGrowthHoursOur LivesMinutesWasteDisappearGrantedClockColourMelodyPaleFifthSymphonyAvenuesRise And FallEvergreensFifth AvenueClock TickingNew GrowthLimestone Book:A Short Guide to a Happy Life Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life