Best our-lives & fall Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life

“But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.”

Humans Stories Values Fall Human Beings Our Lives Despair Evidence Patterns Contrary Setting Settings Depressing Chaotic

Book:A Short History Of Myth

Source: A Short History Of Myth

“If we learn to accept our imperfections with humor, as the reflection of our very humanity, we will experience humility and tolerance, we will understand that we are already filled with forgiveness, we will see the gift of our lives, the chains will fall away, and we will be free -- free not so much from fear or 'dependence,' but free for love, for life itself.”

Ifs Humanity Fall Accepting Our Lives Humility Reflection Filled Tolerance Chains Love Life Imperfection Dependence

Author:Ernest Kurtz

“Faith is the backbone of the social and the foundation of the commercial fabric; remove faith between man and man, and society and commerce fall to pieces. There is not a happy home on earth but stands on faith; our heads are pillowed on it, we sleep at night in its arms with greater security for the safety of our lives, peace, and prosperity than bolts and bars can give.”

Men Giving Home Earth Night Faith Fall Social Sleep Greater Pieces Our Lives Security Arms Safety Foundation Prosperity Bars Remove Commerce Fabric Bolts Backbone Happy Home

Author:Thomas Guthrie

“Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.”

Important Fall Race Our Lives Personality Aspect Gender Introvert Spectrum Extroverts

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who we really are, and who we really are is compassionate and intelligent and wise.”

Sometimes Fall Left Wise Our Lives Intelligent Compassionate Meaningless Preoccupation

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Status Anxiety: A worry, so pernicious as to be capable of ruining extended stretches of our lives, that we are in danger of failing to conform to the ideals of success laid down by our society and that we may as a result be stripped of dignity and respect; a worry that we are currently occupying too modest a rung or are about to fall to a lower one.”

May Happiness Success Fall Results Worry Our Lives Failing Danger Anxiety Capable Ideals Dignity Our Society Modest Conform Pernicious Dignity And Respect

Author:Alain de Botton

“Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.”

Ifs Fall Courses Mistake Our Lives Fate Baby Shapes Falling In Love Who We Are Carrie Sex And The City Mr Big

Author:Michael Patrick King

“Old customs are easy to forget with the flashing of events in our lives. Easy to forget, like the heavy clothing we once wore to survive the winters. It is an old custom, the handing down of things. A good knife, a well-made pipe, a heavy robe. Tradition falls prey to constant change, and creativity becomes so revered that the past is a relic, only to be admired. But in this coat, I was held to the earth, pulled to the past by its weight.”

Wells Made Earth Past Fall Easy Forget Creativity Our Lives Events Tradition Weight Constant Winter Heavy Customs Knives Clothings Coats Prey Pipe Robes Relics

Author:Craig Childs

“Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked back to the origins of life, to the foundations of culture, and to the deepest levels of the human mind. Myth was not concerned with practical matters, but with meaning. Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair. The mythos of a society provided people with a context that made sense of their day-to-day lives; it directed their attention to the eternal and the universal.”

Source: The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism

“We are all vulnerable, and we will all, at some point in our lives... fall. We will all fall. We must carry this in our hearts... that what we have is special. That it can be taken from us, and when it is taken from us, we will be tested. We will be tested to our very souls. We will now all be tested. It is these times, it is this pain, that allows us to look inside ourselves.”

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Author:Eric Taylor

“We will all, at some point in our lives, fall. Every single one of us. We shouldn't spend our time trying to avoid falling. We should spend it finding someone who will help us up!”

Should Trying Helping Fall Our Lives Findings Our Time Finding Someone

Author:Nicole Williams

“A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it....In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.”

Way Love Life Should Problem Fall Grows Our Lives Flower Understood Love Life Weed No Problem

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“The ability to get to a higher level in our life means that we have to generate the energy to be able to do so, and generally, we do that by a fall. Spiritual advances are almost always proceeded by a fall of one kind or another.”

Kind Mean Able Spiritual Fall Energy Ability Levels Our Lives Higher Higher Level Life Means

Author:Wayne Dyer

“We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us, and it outlives its personal moment. All of my work is deep-dug from me, and every book has to stand or fall without me.”

Ifs Book Moments Lasts Dies Fall Our Lives Irrelevant

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The chief end of our life is to live in communion with God. To this end the Son of God became incarnate, in order to return us to this divine communion, which was lost by the fall into sin. Through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, we enter into communion with the Father and thus attain our purpose.”

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Author:Theophan the Recluse

“"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.”

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Author:Paul Auster

“We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him.”

Ifs Men World Way Life Firsts Persons Ends Use Fall Differences Chance Boys Learning Our Lives This World Circumstances One Way Second Chance

Book:True Manliness

Source: True Manliness

“The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love God simply because doing so will produce many consolations in our life. We must enter a true relationship, were we fall in love not with His benefits, but with Him.”

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Author:Robert Barron

“When the Soviet Union was dissolved, most of us didn't even have the feeling that the country was falling apart. We thought we would continue with our lives as in the past, but as good neighbors.”

Country Feelings Past Fall Our Lives Unions Neighbor Soviet Soviet Union Falling Apart Good Neighbor

Author:Vladislav Surkov

“Each morning is a new beginning of our life. Each day is a finished whole. The present day marks the boundary of our cares and concerns. It is long enough to find God or lose Him, to keep faith or fall into disgrace.”

Long Enough Whole Care Fall Loses Morning Our Lives Concern Mark Finished Boundaries Each Day New Beginnings Disgrace Present Day Keep The Faith Care And Concern

Book:Meditating on the Word

Source: Meditating on the Word

“When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.”

“In real life, we're not walking around waiting for something to happen. We live our lives, and then suddenly we fall in love with somebody, and it's a big mess because you have a wife already, and it's going to destroy your life. And, at the same time, it's beautiful. Often, in films, it's not like that.”

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Author:Tobias Lindholm

“Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.”

Fall Our Lives Fingers Dust Sand Specks Hourglass

Author:Socrates

“Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.”

Moments Dies Turns Fall Born Our Lives Emotional Baby Falling In Love Beloved Poetry Is Beloved Friends

Author:Erica Jong

“I am continually trying to find meaning in the world. If we cannot find some ultimate significance or value in our lives, we fall very easily into despair.”

Ifs World Trying Values Fall Our Lives Despair Ultimate Significance Find Me

Author:Karen Armstrong

“True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet he permits these things to accomplish something far more precious in our lives: patience, endurance, compassion for others who hurt, and refined faith and trust in God, to name a few.”

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