Best our-lives & wish Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.”

Ifs Should Ideas Facts Suffering Wish Forever Our Lives Source Eternal Unhappy Obligation Unbearable Eternal Life Live Forever

Author:Claude Vorilhon

“The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.”

Wish Brain Our Lives Facets Cornerstones

Author:Tan Le

“During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.”

Courses Wish Enjoy Natural Pleasure Virtue Our Lives Sake Encounters Abandon Now And Then Delightful Forbidden Inviting

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.”

Thinking Giving Mind Life Is Given Wish Our Lives Fate Giving Up Determined

Author:George Eliot

“I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.”

Giving Doe Moments Light Seems Wish Forever Our Lives Misery Depth Insight Gates Flood Anguish

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Our lives show the accumulation of all of our varied wishes. Wanting something with all your heart will begin to slough away all of your untrue and idle wishes. Success comes from an undivided heart.”

Heart Shows Wish Our Lives Idle Accumulation Untrue Slough

Author:Chuck Spezzano

“I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.”

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Author:M. Carey Thomas

“Who am I?” “What is the purpose of my life?” These questions arise spontaneously throughout our lives, either unbidden or through conscious intent. Anyone who wishes to live an authentic life must answer these questions, regardless of whether they believe in the existence of the soul or practice a religion. If these queries remain unanswered, life will more than likely remain superficial and empty, in spite of any material abundance. If you wish to make the soul's journey, then I suggest you ask yourself these questions relentlessly and ruthlessly, and listen carefully.”

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Author:Ilchi Lee

“The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.”

Life Firsts Ends Moments Seems Life Is Wish Our Lives Odds

Book:Desire: The Journey We Must Take to Find the Life God Offers

Source: Desire: The Journey We Must Take to Find the Life God Offers

“We can't tell our life from our wish”

Wish Our Lives

Author:Randall Jarrell

“What we can do is to live out our lives as best we can with purpose, and love, and joy. We can use each day to show those who are closest to us how much we care about them, and treat others with the kindness and respect that we wish for ourselves. We can learn from our mistakes and grow from our failures. And we can strive at all costs to make a better world.”

World Use Shows Care Joy Purpose Wish Grows Can Do Mistake Kindness Our Lives Cost And Love Treats Strive Each Day Closest Learning From Our Mistakes

Author:Barack Obama

“Surely it is the right wish that draws us to the right place. Nothing of importance happens accidentally in our life.”

Happens Wish Our Lives Draws Importance Right Place

Book:The Way Of The White Clouds

Source: The Way Of The White Clouds

“It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire's tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.”

Ifs Use Life Is Desire Energy Wish Our Lives Linked Transcendental Present Life

Book:Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire

Source: Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire

“The global warming scare has provided a field day for politicians and others who wish to control our lives. After all, only the imagination limits the kind of laws and restrictions that can be written in the name of saving the planet.”

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Author:Walter E. Williams

“We are all dropped into our lives on this planet with a limited amount of time and cosmic understanding, yet we know one thing for certain: we wish to live. We share this yearning for life and love with all the beings that fly, grow, slither or swim amongst us.”

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Author:Ian Somerhalder

“I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.”

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Book:Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963

Source: Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963

“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.”

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Author:John Friend

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