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“In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.”

Ifs Hard Reading Opportunity Pleasure Attention Our Lives Land Quiet Conversation Intimate Restaurants Distraction Noisy Land Of Opportunity Pleasure Of Reading Intimate Conversation

Book:The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life

Source: The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life

“There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.”

Giving Hard Games Winning Sleep Careers Cases Our Lives Sacrifice Hard Work Giving Up Notion Accomplish Stealing Zero Somewhere Else Zero Sum Game

Author:Maynard Webb

“The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned - the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach - is that the greatest threat to our lives, liberty, property, and security is not some foreign government, as our rulers so often tell us. The greatest threat to our freedom and well-being lies with our own government!.”

Wells Hard Government Today Lying Liberty Teach Our Lives Security Lessons Property Threat Forgotten Well Being Ancestor Rulers

Author:Jacob G. Hornberger

“Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.”

Ifs Hard Life Is Fun Easy Our Lives Dangerous Enthusiasm Hard Times Dull Rough Rough Times Easy Going

Book:The Power of Positive Living

Source: The Power of Positive Living

“I think that if we just listen to ourselves we know what it is we have to do . . . . And I have come o think that however much it hurts, however hard it is, we have to listen. We have to live our lives.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Hard Hurt Our Lives It Hurts Just Listen

Book:Astrid and Veronika

Source: Astrid and Veronika

“Many people don't wake up. They fight against a difficult time, shut the window and become more bitter. Fortunately or unfortunately, however you see it, we are served up those opportunities over and over in our life. So if you've shut the window, don't worry, another hard time is going to come around the corner - to give you that chance all over again.”

People Ifs Giving Hard Fighting Opportunity Difficult Chance Worry Our Lives Window Wake Up Corners Bitter Hard Times Difficult Times Around The Corner

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.”

Real Hard Bigs Decision Our Lives Directors Excited Corporations Voting Seals

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“If you're in a subordinate position of some sort and pretty much all of us are at some point in our lives, your general tendency is to try and impress the people above you or person above you so well that they will like you, keep you or maybe promote you. In the process of doing that you are not aware that that person above has insecurities and if you try so hard they may see that you are after their job or that you are better than they are or they might envy the fact you are younger.”

People Ifs Trying Wells May Persons Hard Facts Might Jobs Process Our Lives Position Like You Envy Tendencies Insecurity Impress Subordinates

Author:Robert Greene

“How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration.”

Source: Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?

“Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is the reason why we are alive, and I believe it extends our life by many years.”

Years Believe Hard Reason Happens Turns I Believe Laughing Five Our Lives Alive Cry Please Extremes Reason Why

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“It's mighty hard right now to think of anything that's precious that isn't endangered. There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.”

Thinking World Hard Belief Our Lives Right Now Sacred Conditional

Author:Wendell Berry

“We can bring brilliant flowers of victory to bloom in our lives when we weather the hardships of winter and emerge triumphant based on our practice of the Mystic Law. The key to victories lies in how hard we struggle when we are in winter, how wisely we use this time and how meaningful we live each day confident that spring will definitely come.”

Hard Use Law Lying Practice Struggle Our Lives Flower Keys Victory Spring Winter Brilliant Meaningful Weather Each Day Hardship Mystic Triumphant Live Each Day

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless... You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.”

Knows Giving Self Hard Reason Reality Action Faces Life Is Motivation Enemy Our Lives Despair Survival Tools Altruism Preservation Powerless Self Preservation Hard Questions

Author:Audre Lorde

“Our lives are inpired by the dreams we have from the earliest stages of our youth. When you combine passion and hard work, then success is always possible. While no road is ever straight, dedication and persistance will always lead you to your dreams.”

Hard Dream Passion Our Lives Stage Youth Hard Work Your Dreams Dedication Persistance

Author:Arte Moreno

“When I read the Bible, I see that we should have victory in our life and be overcomers, and I can't even control my temper. I'm impatient. I'm hard to get along with. I'm selfish and self-centered, and I don't seem to have any control over it.”

Should I Can Self Hard Seems Our Lives Victory Should Have Selfish Over It Temper Impatient Self Centered

Author:Joyce Meyer

“People always want to know how you know. And knowing in your heart is very hard to describe. I think so often, we're trying to understand something with our mind. But, actually, the Bible teaches us that much of what God does in our life will be difficult to understand with the mind.”

People Thinking Knows Want Trying Mind Heart Doe Hard Difficult Teach Know How Knowing Our Lives

Author:Joyce Meyer

“I'm very aware of the chemistry. It's something you can't take for granted. I'm very thankful for it and I recognise the power of its reality in all of our lives. Some people don't and it's a mistake not to because people throw away god-given special chemistry that's very rare, very hard to find.”

People Hard Reality Given Mistake Our Lives Special Granted Chemistry Recognise Very Thankful

Author:Anthony Kiedis

“Even a small amount of perspective can change our lives. Because even the smallest amount of perspective can change how we are able to navigate hard times.”

Hard Able Our Lives Perspective Amount Hard Times Smallest Navigate Small Amounts

Author:Andy Andrews

“The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.”

Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

“If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.”

Ifs Thinking Want Hard Life Is Belief Effort Struggle Our Lives Hard Work Effort And Hard Work

Book:Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

Source: Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want

“Our philosophy about activity and our attitude about hard work will affect the quality of our lives. What we decide about the rightful ratio of labor to rest will establish a certain work ethic. That work ethic - our attitude about the amount of labor we are willing to commit to future fortune - will determine how substantial or how meager that fortune turns out to be.”

Hard Philosophy Certain Turns Attitude Quality Our Lives Willing Hard Work Amount Activity Ethics Labor Fortune Determine Commit Work Ethic Ratios

Author:Jim Rohn

“You'd be hard pressed to find more drama in 'Days of Our Lives' than you do in an average job each day.”

Hard Jobs Our Lives Drama Average Each Day

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.”

Ifs World Giving May Hard Reason Form Belief Lost Force Loses Our Lives Madness Granted Rely Collapse World And Life Life For Granted

Book:Mortal Questions

Source: Mortal Questions

“Humanity is at a fork in the road and we can no longer stand there staring at the map pondering which direction to take. It is hardly a choice, after all. One Road leads to a global fascist dictatorship that would control every aspect of our lives, including our thoughts. The other will open the door to freedom and potential on a scale never experienced in the 'world' as we have known it. Hard one, isn't it? A choice between a prison and a paradise?”

World Hard Humanity Choices Known Our Lives Doors Aspect Prison Including Scales Staring Paradise Maps Dictatorship Our Thoughts Pondering Fascists Forks Fork In The Road

Author:David Icke

“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.”

Ifs Should Hard Natural Chance Simple Study Our Lives Goes On Exercise Sentences Leap Breaking Down Transcendence Accuracy Fugue

Author:Adrienne Rich

“We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard story anthology hews closer to what makes being human so hard: it reminds you with each story how quickly everything we are, everything we call our lives can change, can be upended, can disappear. Never to return.”

Knows Humans Wells Ends Hard Stories Our Lives Return Pages Standards Disappear Collections Serving Nevertheless Being Human Anthology Countdown

Author:Junot Diaz

“The fearsome blessing of that hard time continues to work itself out in my life in the same way we're told the universe is still hurtling through outer space under the impact of the great cosmic explosion.... I think grace sometimes explodes into our lives like that-sending our pain, terror, astonishment hurtling through inner space until by grace they become Orion, Cassiopeia, Polaris to give us our bearings, to bring us into something like full being at last.”

Thinking Way Giving Stills Sometimes Hard Pain Lasts Universe Space Grace Our Lives Blessing Impact Terror Hard Times Cosmic Explosions Outer Space Astonishment Orion

Author:Frederick Buechner

“Some of them [family names] have sentimental value for some reason or another, some of them just sound beautiful. Some of them are because of people that are meaningful to us in our lives. So it's hard to say which one we'll pick. Sometimes they say you have to see the child before you decide. So maybe when we see her we'll make a last-second decision.”

People Children Sometimes Hard Reason Lasts Beautiful Values Names Sound Decision Our Lives Picks Meaningful Sentimental Family Name Sentimental Value

Author:John Legend

“Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism, including the choice of topics we pursue.”

Trying Matter Hard Choices Courses Our Lives Influence Circumstances Including Objectives Pursue Journalism Life Experience Reporters Topics

Author:Sheri Fink