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“If you stay in the mainstream of life, 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.”

Ifs World Years Suffering Our Lives Middle Live By Mainstream Headlines

Author:Richard Rohr

“The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.”

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Author:Alice Hegan Rice

“It is precisely because we cannot see God that we can only know that our prayer is valid by the effect it has upon our lives, by the way we treat our neighbor.”

Knows Way Prayer Our Lives Effects Treats Neighbor Live By Our Prayers

Author:Sheila Cassidy

“The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on”

Source: Hilarity Ensues

“...we make our lives by what we love.”

Our Lives Live By

Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings

“No task is too big or too small for God. He cares for us. He wants the best for us. More importantly He just wants us to include Him in our lives by trusting in Him.”

Want Bigs Care Our Lives Tasks Live By Want U

Author:Dan Ellis

“If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Our Lives Judging Amount Live By Deceiving Wiser Evaluate Humbling

Author:Paul Washer

“We live our lives by the water and if you don't know how to swim in Australia, it's like not knowing how to cross a road. It's an incredible survival thing that you really must learn when you're a child.”

Ifs Knows Children Water Know How Knowing Our Lives Survival Crosses Incredibles Australia Live By Swim Not Knowing

Author:Eric Bana

“Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.”

Love Our Lives Affection Live By Warmth

Author:William Ellery Channing

“Spiritual empowerment is evidenced in our lives by our willingness to tell ourselves the truth, to listen to the truth when it's told to us, and to dispense truth as lovingly as possible, when we feel compelled to talk from the heart.”

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Author:Christina Baldwin

“It's not the troubles we run into, it's what we do about them which determines their net effect upon our lives ... by the very act of trying, our spirit is making progress.”

Trying Running Spirit Our Lives Progress Trouble Effects Determine Live By

Author:Nick Baylis

“Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.”

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Book:Clocks

Source: Clocks

“We dull our lives by the way we conceive them.”

Way Our Lives Dull Live By

Author:James Hillman

“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.”

People Ifs Firsts Self Our Lives Awareness Creation Circumstances Shapes Responsible Self Awareness Empowering Live By Personal Life Default

Author:Stephen Covey

“For joy, I live by the mantra of surrounding yourself with people who make your life better... people who enhance your life and motivate you to be the best version of yourself. It's not always easy, but I've had to make a conscious effort to remove people who are a lot of work and drain my energy...you know, those energy suckers we each have in our lives.”

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Author:Theo Rossi

“Success, to me, is helping one person or many people counter the isolation and pseudoconnectivity of our lives by boosting their ability to connect to themselves and to others.”

People Persons Helping Ability Our Lives Isolation Live By

Author:Esther Perel

“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.”

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Author:Richard Rohr

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