“The storms of life can be used for good in our lives if we let them drive our spirits higher and closer to God.” IfsUsedSpiritSpiritualityOur LivesHigherStormStorms Of Life Author:Roy Lessin
“The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so that there will be people in our lives for 30 years and often it is not your husband, it's your women friends, male friends with whom you come of age.” PeopleYearsAgeUsedOur LivesHusbandOppositesMalesUsed To BeComes And GoesYour HusbandPeople In Our Lives Author:Wendy Wasserstein
“I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've ever said, and I used it in the follies of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can't confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.” ThinkingWorldYearsBelieveLittlesHas BeensSaidWarHomeAmericaUsedLostI BelieveNationsRecordsOur LivesDegreesUniqueYears AgoShirtsFollyComing HomeLittle ThingsConferencesCantRemarksEgotismCosta Rica Author:Will Rogers
“Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.” HumansMotivationalActionUsedCoursesCausesResultsEmotionLeaderDestinyOur LivesShapesFlowThinkerCan NotPower Of WordsHuman HistoryOur Actions Book:Awaken The Giant Within Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“There's a romance to danger. There's a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the story of our lives better.” StoriesRomanceUsedOur LivesCrimeLonelinessDangerDrugDrinkingPetty Author:Joey Comeau
“A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it ... When the art in question is literature a complication arises, for to 'receive' significant words is always, in one sense, to 'use' them, to go through and beyond them to an imagined something which is not itself verbal.” IfsDoeArtUseUsedPoetryLiteratureOur LivesAddSignificantAriseInferiorsComplicationFacilitateReception Author:C. S. Lewis
“There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.” PeopleLoveGivingHeartMatterTruthUsedDesireHouseAttentionOur LivesRelationshipModernPressesPossessionPrioritiesLive LifeOur TimeWhat MattersSchedulesClosetsBackwardsClueSlow DownVitalityModern LifeCrowdedDrainsLive In The PresentPressuredClose RelationshipMost Meaningful Author:Eknath Easwaran
“Our life is made up of time, and time is a gift from God, so it is important that it be used in good and fruitful actions.” LifeMadeImportantActionLife IsUsedOur LivesGift From God Author:Pope Francis
“There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.” MightUsedCertainLanguageQualityOur LivesProductsComputerHundredPhrasesAcquireJapanMysticismMysticalFloatsDenmark Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo
“Life does not wait: Whether we spend our lives meaningfully or not, the time will be used up moment by moment.” DoeMomentsUsedWaitingOur LivesMeaning Of LifeMeaningful LifeLife Means Author:Dalai Lama
“After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.” WorldUseBodyEarthUsedOur LivesAfter Death Author:Annie Besant
“Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.” ShouldYearsMeanMadeSometimesUsedFoundNiceOur LivesObjectsBalanceStriveStrikesDecadesBuyingEquationsFound Objects Author:Nate Berkus
“This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's really about boys, most of it. But I can feel more like Peter Pan than Tinker Bell, or like Wendy. I wanted to be Tom Sawyer, not Becky. And we're so used to that act of empathizing with the protagonist of a male-driven plot. I mean, that's what we've done all our lives. You read history, you read great literature, Shakespeare, it's all fellas, you know?” KnowsFeelsMeanLittlesI CanDoneWantedUsedGirlLiteratureBoysOur LivesEmpathyMalesDrivenPlotPeterBellsTomsProtagonistsFellasWendyGreat LiteratureSawyerBecky Author:Meryl Streep