“Let's stop believing that our differences make us superior or inferior to one another. Let's not be afraid that our different colors make us different people. Who cares? It's just a lie, and we don't have to believe all the lies and superstitions that control our lives.” PeopleBelieveDifferentCareLyingDifferencesOur LivesColorSuperiorsSuperstitionsInferiorsWho CaresDifferent PeoplesDifferent Colors Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz
“I really do believe that there's no such thing as coincidence. People come into our lives for a reason.” PeopleBelieveReasonOur LivesCoincidence Author:Debbi Fields
“[People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call "God," it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that.” PeopleKnowsHeartStillsDifferentMightSpiritOur LivesMysteryDivineConnectedYearning Author:Oprah Winfrey
“There are 4 types of relationships. We generally know people who guide and help us like a parent or teacher; those who need our wisdom or help like a child or student; people with similar knowledge and experience on our life path who want to offer unconditional support; and those who do not wish to support us.” PeopleKnowsWantNeedsChildrenHelpingWishParentSupportPathTeacherOur LivesStudentsTypeOffersGuidesUnconditionalLife PathKnowledge And Experience Author:John Friend
“The only thing an artist is useful for, and the only reason why we don't just line 'em up against the wall and shoot them, is because, at their best, they're the reflection of our lives, that most regular people can't even afford to think about.” PeopleThinkingReasonArtistLinesOur LivesWallReflectionReason WhyEms Author:El-P
“Asexuality does not make our lives any worse or any better, we just face a different set of challenges than most sexual people.” PeopleDoeDifferentFacesChallengesOur Lives Author:Mallory Ortberg
“I think loads of women have this idea that their life is going to start at some point, once they've busted all these problems of being a woman, once we're thin and we're pretty and we've got all of our clothes and stuff, that's when our life will begin. And you meet people at 48 who are still thinking that, and 58.” PeopleThinkingStillsIdeasProblemLife IsStuffOur LivesClothesLoadBeing A WomanBusted Author:Caitlin Moran
“We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of. We start blaming them.” PeopleToo MuchOur LivesShareResponsibleBlameRely Author:Alejandro Zambra
“The personal boundaries, I think for comedians they're a little bit different anyway, but I think people - feel free to do stuff - It's interesting with comedians because when we walk on stage, oftentimes we're talking about ourselves for an hour and we're talking about very intimate details, so after hearing us for an hour, a lot of people feel very comfortable with us because they feel like they know us and they're our friends because we just told them our innermost secrets and details of our lives for an hour. What they forget is we know absolutely nothing about the audience.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsLittlesDifferentStuffBitsHoursWalksForgetInterestingSecretTalkingAudienceOur LivesStageComfortableLittle BitDetailsHearingBoundariesComedianIntimateAbsolutely Nothing Author:Brad Williams
“I want you to stop running from thing to thing to thing, and to sit down at the table, to offer the people you love something humble and nourishing, like soup and bread, like a story, like a hand holding another hand while you pray. We live in a world that values us for how fast we go, for how much we accomplish, for how much life we can pack into one day. But I'm coming to believe it's in the in-between spaces that our lives change, and that the real beauty lies there.” PeopleWorldWantBelieveRealStoriesHandsRunningLyingValuesSpaceOur LivesPrayingOne DayOffersTablesHumbleAccomplishBreadLife ChangingI Want YouPacksSoupReal BeautyHand Holding Author:Shauna Niequist
“Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.” PeoplePlayPoliticalChallengesDifferencesDecisionLeaderRolesOur LivesRiskMilitaryEntrepreneurAverageSeekingOptimisticMaking A DifferenceInventorTaking RisksMilitary Leader Author:Daniel Kahneman
“People tend to forget that we tie our life history to music like the soundtrack to your life in many more ways than just having a hit record on the radio.” PeopleWayForgetRecordsOur LivesRadioTiesSoundtracks Author:John Seagall
“At no time in our lives has the media ever acknowledged they were wrong about anybody. They have never felt the need to apologize for getting something terribly wrong. They have never, after trying to character assassinate people, apologized for doing it when shown they're wrong.” PeopleNeedsTryingCharacterFeltOur LivesMediaApologizingEver After Author:Rush Limbaugh
“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
“I wanted to talk about how grace in and of itself changes us. It changes the way we treat other people, the way we view our lives, the way we treat our purpose and our eternal identity.” PeopleWayWantedPurposeViewsGraceOur LivesIdentityEternalTreats Author:Max Lucado
“The Bible reminds people that the whole of Scriptures addresses the whole of our lives, including our work. We need to be reminded of this every time we open the Bible, so that we experience the hope and power of the gospel in our work every day.” PeopleNeedsWholeOur LivesIncludingScriptureAddresses Author:David Kim
“We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantTryingIdeasStoriesBrainOur LivesProjectsOrganizedOrganizePeople In Our Lives Author:Charlie Kaufman
“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
“The film [Dream of Life], in the end, is life-affirming, and I think it's always useful for people to be reminded that no matter how rough things get, no matter what kind of twists and turns our lives can take, we can keep going, we can create something new.” PeopleThinkingKindEndsMatterDreamFilmTurnsOur LivesNo Matter WhatSomething NewRoughKeep GoingTwistsAffirmingTwists And TurnsLife Affirming Author:Patti Smith