“You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?” KnowsMayEndsWholeAcceptingKnow HowOur LivesStreetsWindMereCurrentsConvictionDeterminedAgentsDefiniteInvitationsRejectingFree Agents Book:Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics) Source: Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)
“The bombs held in current nuclear arsenals are seventy times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. If we don't begin opposing the drift towards more and more of them, we will live in the shadow of the mushroom cloud for the rest of our lives - and millions may die there.” IfsMayDiesPowerfulMillionsOur LivesShadowCloudsCurrentsNuclearBombsSeventiesOpposingArsenalMushrooms Author:Johann Hari
“Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.” WayFactsFormOpportunityFunOur LivesJourneyMediaUniqueReflectionMirrorsMereCurrentsDetails Author:Mara Brock Akil
“We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information . . . strive to become more mature and aware but none of this will spare us from the . . . inevitability that some of the time we are going to fail our children. Because there is a big gap between knowing and doing. Because mature, aware people are imperfect too. Or because some current event in our life may so absorb or depress us that when our children need us we cannot come through.” PeopleNeedsMayChildrenBigsKnowingOur LivesFailingEventsInformationOur ChildrenRaisesStriveCurrentsMatureGapsParenthoodImperfectDepressingSparesInevitabilityCurrent EventsKnowing And Doing Author:Judith Viorst
“At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.” IfsEndsCountryLeftPresidentCasesOur LivesOfficeHighestMarkLifetimeCurrentsEsteemOur CountryJudgedFranklinNelsonPublic OfficePresident George W Bush Author:Elizabeth Edwards
“Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.” EnoughCoursesOur LivesCurrentsImpulseStifling Author:William Moulton Marston
“Remember, no matter what you background is and what your current circumstances are, you have the capacity to take action. This is one of the golden threads of humanity - we all have the power to act in a way that will improve the quality of our lives.” WayMatterActionRememberHumanityQualityOur LivesCircumstancesCapacityNo Matter WhatCurrentsBackgroundsGoldenThread Author:Robin Sharma
“What we do with our lives every day, whether at school, a desk job, or keeping the home in order, is our most basic opportunity to glorify God. That's what your role in His story looks like day in and day out. Instead of waiting to be offered a new role, play the current one well.” WellsLooksPlayStoriesHomeSchoolJobsOrderOpportunityWaitingRolesOur LivesCurrentsDesksGlorifyLive Every Day Author:Trip Lee
“We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest.” WorldHappensRunningActorsOur LivesDangerDramaConstantCurrentsStrongest Author:Frederick Buechner