“One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if adapted to and viewed as normal corrective feedback to use to get back on target, serve to develop in us an immunity against anxiety, depression, and the adverse responses to stress. Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors.” IfsWayImportantUseLife IsViewsPathSuccessfulOur LivesNormalPaperAnxietyStressAdversityResponseEnvironmentalPrioritiesBest WayResistanceTensionTargetGet BackMinorsPapersFeedbackEvaluateAdaptedAdverseImmunityTacklingShufflingPath Of Least ResistanceAnxiety Depression Author:Denis Waitley
“One of the things I've realized in my decades on this planet is that the world goes on no matter what, and if we are to survive with any amount of grace we all need little oases of tranquility and sanity in our lives. For me, an evening of wine in good company is just such a place.” IfsWorldNeedsLittlesMatterCompanyGraceOur LivesPlanetsGoes OnAmountNo Matter WhatWineDecadesEveningSanityTranquilityGood CompanyOasis Author:Dave Chambers
“If two angels were sent down from heaven -one to conduct an empire and the other to sweep the streets -they would feel no inclination to change employment because an angel would know that no matter what we are doing, it's an opportunity to bring joy, deepen our understanding and expand our life.” IfsKnowsFeelsTwoMatterJoyOpportunityHeavenUnderstandingOur LivesStreetsAngelNo Matter WhatEmploymentEmpiresInclination Author:Isaac Newton
“Over commitment in business is usually due to a lack of faith, which results in fear - specifically, the fear of failure. But if we really believe God is in control, then we also should believe He's able to make us successful while we are keeping our lives in balance.” IfsShouldBelieveAbleResultsSuccessfulOur LivesBalanceCommitmentDuesBelieve In GodFear Of FailureGod Is In ControlLack Of FaithCommitment In Business Author:Larry Burkett
“We need to expect to pay a price if we want to make our lives better, but more importantly, we need to expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are.” IfsWantNeedsPayOur LivesLeaving Author:Jane Powell
“The perishable nature of love is what gives love its profound importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.” IfsWayGivingDoeLove IsOur LivesImportanceProfoundEndless Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.” PeopleIfsFirstsSelfOur LivesAwarenessCreationCircumstancesShapesResponsibleSelf AwarenessEmpoweringLive ByPersonal LifeDefault Author:Stephen Covey
“People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.” PeopleIfsMenNeedsCoursesOur LivesSeaConnectedFamiliarCompareComparisonOld ManGreat WritersFlattered Author:Yann Martel
“If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can.” IfsTryingLittlesFactsOur LivesGunRhetoricOver The Top Author:Barack Obama
“Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.” IfsStoriesLeftOur LivesPersonalityBricksCathedralsNegation Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“There are studies that have shown that we make decisions, ethical and otherwise, based on the way we imagine ourselves as characters in the stories of our lives. In other words, if we imagine ourselves brave or crazy or open, we're more likely to make decisions in a given situation based on how we imagine ourselves, whatever the facts may be.” IfsWayMayCharacterFactsStoriesGivenDecisionSituationStudyOur LivesImagineCrazyBraveEthical Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“I think all the songs [at Moth] are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole, it's really about, it's about joy, and about sensuality and vulnerability and also fun, energy, living in New York in 2015, being out of control, wanting to be in control, failing! It's a sort of story of our lives.” IfsThinkingDifferentWholeStoriesJoySongEnergySpeakFunOur LivesFailingNew YorkSensualityVulnerabilityDifferent ThingsMoths Author:Caroline Polachek
“Everything happens for a reason, and sometimes, that might be difficult to understand, especially when things don't go the way we plan or expect. If we choose to see things positively and trust in God, he will fulfill his purpose in our lives.” IfsWaySometimesReasonMightHappensPurposeDifficultOur LivesPlansThings HappenTrust In GodPositivelyEverything Happens For A ReasonHappens For A Reason Author:Betsy Landin
“If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out that kind of third or fourth act of our life.” IfsFeelsKindOur LivesPeriodsComfortableSkinsThirdsFourth Author:Anna Quindlen
“Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.” PeopleIfsWantTryingOur LivesPrejudicePeople In Our Lives Author:Dana Spiotta
“If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.” IfsSpiritCan DoOur LivesOughtHolyBasesHoly SpiritCooperationAlmightySubconsciousConsent Author:E. Stanley Jones
“We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.” IfsFeelsTodayOur LivesBedMeaning Of LifeInternalsTonightFeel BetterMeaningful LifeLife Means Author:Marianne Williamson
“I think that in life, being is nothing but an illusion. If we acknowledge that and accept the fact that we are in between states, that we are moving, and this movement is the nature of our lives, and we stop having aspirations for being in a definite state, we know life better and are able to enjoy it better.” IfsThinkingKnowsStatesFactsAbleMovingEnjoyAcceptingOur LivesMovementIllusionAcknowledgeAspirationDefinite Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can't get across that gully.” PeopleIfsWorldSometimesWholeOur LivesWasteSittingWhole WorldMore Time Author:Adam Duritz
“If we choose to see things positively and trust in God, he will fulfill his purpose in our lives.” IfsPurposeOur LivesTrust In GodPositively Author:Betsy Landin
“A little exposure to the philosophy of many Eastern spiritual traditions - including yoga - could easily lead you to conclude that if you aspire to achieve goals in the material world you cannot fulfill yourself spiritually, or vice versa. However, since all of us, at some level, long for fulfillment in all aspects of our life, it is essential to understand that these two aims are not mutually exclusive.” IfsWorldLittlesLongTwoPhilosophySpiritualGoalLevelsOur LivesAchieveMaterialsEssentialsYogaAspectTraditionAimIncludingVicesFulfillmentAspireEasternExposureExclusiveVice VersaMaterial WorldAchieving Goals Author:Rod Stryker
“If we want to be respected and honored when we're older, then we must lay the groundwork by respecting and honoring the elders we meet in our lives today. How we treat them today is the way we'll be treated later.” IfsWayWantTodayOur LivesTreatsLaysTreatedHonoredEldersLive For TodayGroundwork Author:Louise Hay
“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.” IfsWorldTryingValuesFallOur LivesDespairUltimateSignificanceFind Me Author:Karen Armstrong
“We must protect our ocean as if our lives depend upon it, because they do.” IfsOur LivesDependsProtectOcean Author:Sylvia Earle
“Our problems are solvable if they are clearly defined. To do so, we need to monitor our planetary life support systems the way doctors monitor a patient's vital signs and then use that information to protect ecosystem services as though our lives depend on it, because they do.” IfsWayNeedsUseProblemSupportOur LivesInformationDependsProtectDoctorsPatientDefinedEcosystemsSupport SystemsVital Signs Author:Edith Widder
“Most progressive in the Democratic Party doesn't cut it, you know. If we still can't have a health care system that provides health care as a human right, if we still cannot, you know, ban fracking and fossil fuels and move like our lives depend on it - you know, we say in the next 15 years we need to phase out fossil fuels.” IfsKnowsNeedsYearsHumansStillsCareMovingNextPartyOur LivesCuttingDependsDemocraticHealth CareFuelProgressivePhasesFossilsDemocratic PartyBansFossil FuelHealth Care SystemFracking Author:Jill Stein
“If you think about black art, all black art, whether it's Invisible Man or whether it's James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Hurston, or Richard Wright, they all deal with elements of identity and trying to humanize our experience and our struggle in the world where people have been indifferent to who we are and what we are. It's basically just saying that our lives have meaning.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWorldTryingHas BeensArtBlackDealsStruggleOur LivesIdentityElementsInvisibleWho We AreIndifferentJust SayingAll BlackBlack Art Author:Cheo Hodari Coker
“In the US in the 1900's 60 % of people were employed on the farms. Today it's less than 1%. If you told people back then that this would happen they wouldn't have believed it. If you told them we would have therapy, massages and spas that played important parts in our lives they would've have believed us.” PeopleIfsImportantHappensTodayOur LivesTherapyFarmsEmployedOld PeopleMassageSpas Author:Bill Gates
“That's why we have appellate judges that are more than one judge because each of us, from our life experiences, will more easily see different perspectives argued by parties. But judges do consider all of the arguments of litigants. I have. Most of my opinions, if not all of them, explain to parties by the law requires what it does.” IfsDoeDifferentLawPartyOpinionOur LivesJudgingPerspectiveArgumentLife ExperienceDifferent Perspective Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“Even though the press at times made me completely crazy as they followed me around the hall, and asked tough questions over and over again - now believe me, every politician feels this way - it is a necessary part of our life, and we must have a press that isn't cowed and won't be afraid of ratings if they get put to the back of the room at a press conference.” IfsWayFeelsBelieveMadeRoomsOur LivesCrazyPoliticianToughPressesHallsBelieve In MeConferencesRatingPress ConferencesTough Questions Author:Barbara Boxer
“If you stay in the mainstream of life, in other words, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines. Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate. In other words, you hold onto your values, but you do it much more inclusively, humbly and in an open ended way. Suffering takes you there.” IfsWorldWayYearsSufferingValuesPovertyTeachKnowingOur LivesInfluenceMiddleEventsAbuseLive ByTransitionCompassionateMainstreamWithout YouFamineHeadlinesBlocked Author:Richard Rohr