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“A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.”

“Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.”

“Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event can we say: this was our own choosing. We happen upon careers, necessity pushing, blind inclination pulling. If we stop to think we are amazed that we should be what we are.”

Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

“Our lives fade behind us before we die.”

Life Dies Behinds Our Lives Fades

Book:Rabbit is Rich

Source: Rabbit is Rich

“I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try to go behind their constructed myths to find the humanity of the person. It takes me about four years on every book and requires hundreds of interviews so I choose people whose lives I respect and achievements are worth recording.”

People Writing Trying Years Persons Book Humanity Powerful Behinds Four Our Lives Alive Achievement Myth Interviews Take Me Four Years

Author:Kitty Kelley

“This is the blessed life-not anxious to see far in front, nor eager to choose the path, but quietly following behind the Shepherd, one step at a time. The Shepherd was always out in front of the sheep. He was down in front. Any attack upon them had to take him into account. Now God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.”

Men Behinds Steps Path Our Lives Fronts Tomorrow Accounts Blessed Following Anxious Sheep Dread Shepherds Blessed Life One Step At A Time God Is There

Author:F.B. Meyer

“Astrology ... makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we'll see. Astrologers don't seek causes at all, for a good reason: There isn't any cause to astrology. If you look for some underlying reason, some connection between the stars and planets and our lives, you won't find any. For astrology to sell, buyers must not seek out the fundamental principles behind it, because if they do they'll see that there is none.”

“Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed.”

Behinds Fiction Our Lives

Author:Vanna Bonta

“So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.”

Pain Behinds Our Lives Depends Birth Accidents Geography

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events; when we contemplate a history that seems to be at an end, leaving only chaos behind it, then we are impelled to raise ourselves above history.”

Ends Moments Seems Behinds Our Lives Events Raises Mere Chaos Leaving Accidents Isolation Overwhelming Contemplating Succession

Author:Karl Jaspers

“Life attacks us like a blind beast. It swallows up time, the years of our life, it passes like a typhoon and leaves nothing behind. Not even memory, because memory is made of the same swift, ungraspable substance out of which illusions emerge and then disappear.”

Years Made Memories Behinds Our Lives Illusion Blind Disappear Substance Beast Typhoons

Author:Álvaro Mutis

“We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.”

Way Differences Behinds Our Lives Responsible Impact One Way Legacy Making A Difference

Author:Stephen Covey

“Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life; those maps of our private world we use every day; here I was happy, in that place I left my coat behind after a party, that is where I met my love; I cried there once, I was heartsore; but felt better round the corner..., things of that sort, our personal memories, that make the private tapestry of our lives.”

World Use Left Felt Lines Memories Party Cities Behinds Clear Our Lives Mets Surprise Rounds Corners Maps Cried Coats Tapestry

Book:Love Over Scotland

Source: Love Over Scotland

“Navigating with a partner makes it half as difficult. We keep each other in check. It's not like she [Angie Marr] was ever a quiet little wifey wife behind the scenes. She's exactly like me. She's very smart. We're very lucky that we've always wanted the same things. She loves guitar music, she loves important records, and our lives are about records and shows and great bands.”

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Author:Johnny Marr