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“It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.”

Way Should Trying Helping Our Lives Critics Bounds Expected Make Sense Feats

Book:The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue

Source: The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue

“The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a basis of historical continuity for black people. It is a ritualized way of talking about ourselves and passing it on.”

People Way Black Talking Music Records Our Lives Bases Philosophical Historical Decades Passing Passings Black People Continuity Way Of Talking Passing It

Author:Sherley Anne Williams

“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

“In Australia, average temperatures have risen almost one degree since 1910, and each decade since the 1940s has been warmer than the one before. That warming is real. Its consequences are real. And it will change our lives in real and practical ways.”

Way Has Beens Real Politics Our Lives Degrees Consequence Climate Change Average Decades Practicals Australia Temperature Risen

Author:Julia Gillard

“Clearly, the Scripture tells us that we lack the capacity to grasp God's infinite mind or the way He intervenes in our lives. How arrogant of us to think otherwise! Trying to analyze His omnipotence is like an amoeba attempting to comprehend the behavior of man.”

Thinking Men Way Trying Mind Our Lives Behavior Capacity Infinite Scripture Arrogant Attempting Omnipotence Amoeba

Book:When God Doesn't Make Sense

Source: When God Doesn't Make Sense

“When one considers the body in relation to dance, it is then that one truly realizes what suffering is: it is a part of our lives. No matter how much we search for it from the outside there is no way we can find it without delving into ourselves.”

Way Matter Body Suffering Realizing Our Lives Relation Delving

Author:Tatsumi Hijikata

“'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.”

Way Needs Feelings Our Lives Crazy Fronts Busy Armor Numbing

Author:Brené Brown

“Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reintegrate into our lives and serve us again as productive members of our civilian community.”

Way Needs Mean Community Our Lives Members Productive Providing Veteran Civilians Our Veterans

Author:Charles Rangel

“I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.”

People Thinking Way Want Kind Space Our Lives Connected Feds Restlessness Cyber Frantic

Author:Simon Schama

“I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many ways. I would say that certainly the stories of the day appear in the work - I just have never gone so far as to say, well, this particular event could influence a plot of an entire book.”

Way Wells Book Ideas Stories Inspiration Found Gone Our Lives Influence Events Particular News Plot

Author:Michael Koryta

“Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.”

Way Feels Matter Might Reading Felt Rooms Our Lives Various Spread Wide Locked

Author:Simon Van Booy

“The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.”

Men Way Persons Real Whole Seems Young Certain Easy Our Lives Middle Leaving Staying Being Real Discovering Complacency Middle Aged

Author:Conor McPherson

“It is so important that our lives are built not on our feelings or circumstances, but on the word of God, and songs can really help us to meditate on and retain truth. I know from the correspondence I regularly receive that if you can express in songs the profound truth of the gospel in a poetic yet accessible way, they really can have an impact in people's lives.”

People Ifs Knows Way Important Helping Feelings Song Our Lives Circumstances Built Impact Profound Poetic Word Of God Correspondence Profound Truth

Author:Stuart Townend

“In trusting, we let ourselves go. We know that all kinds of unexpected events may come our way. Our tension eases, our mind and our hearts open spontaneously to be possibilities. It is an ever new state of mind, in the present moment, because we have detached from all we know. But it is also a feeling as old as can be, because, before all betrayals and all disappointments, there was a time in which trusting another was the very substance of our life.”

“It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.”

Ifs Way Reason Whole Our Lives Cutting Goodness Fundamentals Good Things Spread Connected Violent Ties Germs

Author:Nicholas A. Christakis

“There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.”

Ifs Way Reason Care Social Roles Our Lives Understood Advantage Fundamentals Our Society Social Network

Author:Nicholas A. Christakis

“I think that the way we begin our day is really the way we live our day and the way we live our lives; and that not enough of us are really aware of it.”

Thinking Way Enough Our Lives

Author:Louise Hay

“I discovered that some things are written for us. It's not that we can't change our ancestral bearings, or that the path or purpose of any of our lives is really written in stone. But what tends to happen sometimes is the path is so deeply inscribed in the birth that it becomes you and every variation away from it brings you back in ways that you are not controlling.”

Way Sometimes Happens Life Is Purpose Path Our Lives Written Birth Stones Variation Can't Change Written In Stone

Author:Maya Tiwari

“We're in essence allowing our spirit to come to terms with all the conflicts that we build within ourselves. Disease is after all a conflict within the tissue itself. Memory fading within the tissue, conflict of our actions or thoughts, our lives are not seamlessly running together in some way for ourselves, and had not been for a long time before we get to the critical point of a disease.”

Way Long Running Action Together Spirit Term Memories Our Lives Conflict Disease Long Time Essence Critical Allowing Our Actions Tissues Fading Running Together

Author:Maya Tiwari

“We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.”

Way Life Littles Moments Memories Our Lives Terrible Mere Terror Screens Nostalgia Suspense Continuity Melodrama

Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.”

Thinking Way Rich Our Lives Clever Resourceful Very Clever

Author:David Attenborough

“It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck is a powerful way of illustrating the importance of our basic attitudes in affecting whether or not we find our Element.”

Way Ideas Happens Motivational Differences Powerful Attitude Our Lives Circumstances Elements Importance Luck Illustrating

Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .”

Ifs Way Wells Existence Our Lives Empty Emptiness Another Way Elevating Non Existence

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“When a path opens up before us that leads we know not where, don't be afraid to follow it. Our lives are meant to be mysterious journeys, unfolding one step at a time. Often we follow a path worn smooth by the many and in doing so we lose our authenticity, our individuality, our own unique expression. Do not be afraid to lose your way. Out of chaos, clarity will eventually rise. Out of not knowing, something new and unknown will ultimately come. Do not order things too swiftly. Wait and the miracle will appear.”

“I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos of our cities, the randomness of our lives, the unpredictability of where you're going to be in ten years from now - all of those things are weighing on us, and yet there is a certain glimmer of control. If you act a certain way, and talk a certain way, you're going to draw certain forces to you.”

Ifs Thinking Way Years Certain Force Process Cities Accepting Our Lives Ten Draws Chaos Can't Change Randomness Weighing Unpredictability

Author:Frank Gehry

“We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.”

Way Struggle Our Lives Politician Love Life Workplace Our Love Power Struggle

Author:Beau Willimon

“We shall therefore take an appropriately correct view of the origin of our life, if we consider our own embryos to have sprung immediately from those embryos whence our parents were developed, and these from the embryos of their parents, and so on for ever. We should in this way look on the nature of mankind, and perhaps on that of the whole animated creation, as one Continuous System, ever pushing out new branches in all directions, that variously interlace, and that bud into separate lives at every point of interlacement.”

Ifs Way Should Looks Whole Parent Views Our Lives Mankind Creation Branches Pushing Animated Bud Nature Of Man Sprung Heredity Embryos Separate Lives

Author:Francis Galton

“Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.”

Way Needs Sometimes Rooms Our Lives Going Away New Things Old Things

Author:R. K. Milholland

“I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with my family in the back of a limousine and someone cracking a joke and us just hysterically belly laughing. It's how we always dealt with tragedy in our lives and I think it's such a healthy way to deal with sadness.”

Thinking Way Moments Home Memories Deals Laughing Our Lives Sadness Healthy Jokes My Family Tragedy Coming Home Funeral Belly Saddest Limousines

Author:Zach Braff

“For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.”

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'

“A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it....In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.”

Way Love Life Should Problem Fall Grows Our Lives Flower Understood Love Life Weed No Problem

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“Obviously there's no way around discomfort, which is tucked into too many places in our lives. But it is possible to move beyond it.”

Way Moving Our Lives Angel Discomfort

Author:Angelina Love

“Realizing that our minds control our bodies while our bodies reflect our minds amounts to understanding the most fundamental aspects of ourselves. It further equals a comprehension of the relationship between our "tools." And since the mind and body are interrelated, this understanding makes it easier to see why coordinating them is a practical way of using these tools to greatest effect-a way of using the mind and body to live our lives as art.”

Way Mind Art Body Understanding Realizing Our Lives Meditation Effects Amount Easier Aspect Tools Fundamentals Practicals Mind And Body Comprehension Mind Control Coordinating

Author:H. E Davey

“As we progress along the intercultural journey, we become self-reflective about habits of heart and mind and the ways these are expressed in daily life. We develop strategies for encountering change, unfamiliarity and ambiguity in creative ways. We begin to realize that what is taken, as "common sense" is really "cultural sense". Our life becomes richer and deeper for having encountered differences.”

Way Mind Heart Self Culture Realizing Differences Common Creative Taken Our Lives Progress Journey Habit Strategy Deeper Common Sense Daily Life Heart And Mind Ambiguity Intercultural

Author:H. Ned Seelye

“And when this grand canvas, our life, is finished, may the world in some small or large way be a better place.”

World Way May Life Is Our Lives Finished Canvas Better Place

Author:Robert Regis Dvorak

“Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.”

Ifs Way Looks Has Beens Pain Suffering Compassion Our Lives Sorrow Essentials Findings Tasks Mercy Caught Honestly Exile Wrongdoing

Book:Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

Source: Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

“Take the Long Way Home is a song that I wrote that's on two levels - on one level I'm talking about not wanting to go home to the wife, 'take the long way home' because she treats you like part of the furniture. But there's a deeper level to the song, too. I really believe we all want to find our true home, find that place in us where we feel at home, and to me, home is in the heart. When we’re in touch with our heart and we're living our life from our heart, then we do feel like we found our home.”

Way Want Feels Believe Heart Long Two Home Song Found Levels Talking Our Lives Wife Treats Deeper Furniture Long Way Way Home True Home

Author:Roger Hodgson

“The scriptures teach us the ways of the Lord. They answer questions about how to live today. They bring a light and a spirit into our lives that we can get in no other way.”

Way Light Today Spirit Answers Lord Teach Our Lives Scripture Live For Today

Author:Margaret D. Nadauld

“How often in life are you going to find your mate and that mate happens to be your same exact age and happens to have had the same life experiences to match where you are in our life so you guys can meet perfectly and give society what it wants? It just doesn't happen that way. Some people evolve at 24, some people are 60 and are still evolving. So why are we stopping these great connections based on age, or race or colour or whatever, gender, whatever? You meet who you meet and you connect because of your life experience.”

People Way Want Giving Stills Happens Age Guy Race Our Lives Connections Gender Evolve Colour Where You Are Mates Life Experience Stopping

Author:Sandra Bullock

“We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly - the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.”

Way Soul Moments Fighting Lost Moral Poverty Our Lives Materials Shapes Ancient Liberation Indifference Attachment Consumerism Athletic Overconsumption Fling

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

“Transportation is an essential part of our lives, and in New York City where driving is not a viable option most of the time, public transportation and taxis are the only way to get around.”

Way Cities Our Lives New York Essentials Driving New York City Transportation Taxi Public Transportation

Author:Simi Linton

“Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock, but only on a superficial level. They'd never risk market share to really explore the issues. They report, but don't analyze or suggest any new ways for living our lives.”

Way May Book Ideas Stories Shows Levels Issues Our Lives Risk Share Information Television Depth Backgrounds Reports Shock New Ways Superficial Television Shows

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I knew we could improve our lives even in jail. We could come out as different men, and we could even come out with two degrees. Educating ourselves was a way to give ourselves the most powerful weapon for freedom.”

Men Way Giving Two Different Powerful Our Lives Degrees Weapons Most Powerful Jail Powerful Weapons

Author:Nelson Mandela

“My husband and I make physical activity a priority in our lives, and our daughters love being active as well. And while we each have sports and activities we enjoy, we try to go for hikes or bike rides together whenever we get the chance. We've found that the best way to help our girls be active is to find activities they truly enjoy.”

Way Trying Wells Helping Together Girl Found Sports Enjoy Chance Love Is Our Lives Activity Husband Daughter Active Priorities Best Way My Husband Bike Our Daughter Physical Activity

Author:Michelle Obama

“People, especially the liberals, just live in this world where if anything is said that offends anybody even a little bit, not only does that person have to apologize; sometimes they have to go away forever. Go away, bad person. My analysis of this is that most of us don't do anything decent in our life. I'm not saying we're evil. I'm just saying we don't make a contribution, so the way they [liberals] think they're making a contribution is to point at the bad people [which] is somehow even more pathetic.”

“God sometimes allows us to feel anger so we'll recognize when we're being mistreated. But even when we experience true injustices in our lives, we must not vent our anger in an improper way.”

Way Feels Sometimes Motivational Our Lives Injustice Mistreated

Author:Joyce Meyer

“I think that people talk about radical life extensions as if it is just one linear kind of journey, when actually what's going to happen is we're going to radically expand our lives billions and billions of times in every way, in every dimension and so I'm looking forward to things I can't even imagine yet.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Kind I Can Happens Our Lives Imagine Journey Billions Radical Just One Dimensions Extensions Looking Forward Linear One Line

Author:Barry Ptolemy

“We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience trauma, you can speak about it in so many different ways. You can speak about landscape, you can speak about your food; it's always different. Trauma is the beginning of life as an artist.”

People Ifs Way Looks Different Artist Speak Our Lives Painting Trauma Landscape Different Ways Beginning Of Life

Author:Christian Boltanski

“I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as it happens... this is, at least to a degree, about getting old and the rapid passage of our lives.”

Way Stories Happens Our Lives Degrees Intention Theme Passages Getting Old Rapids Thematic

Author:Stephen King

“I really think people are greatly stimulated and enriched by experiencing in film just as we can from novels and other art, experiencing things that resonate with what our lives are about. I think people really want to know... want to share, want to have the stimulus to think and care about the way they live their lives, the way they relate to other people, their aspirations, their hopes, et cetera.”

People Thinking Knows Way Want Art Care Film Novel Our Lives Share Relate Aspiration Stimulus Experiencing Things

Author:Mike Leigh

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