“In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we, at the end of our lives, mourning the life we dreamed of but never lived. Poetry urges us to stand once and for all, and now, in the heart of our own life.” WorldGivingYearsHeartEndsMatterTodayJoyEasyLosesGoneOur LivesSightMourningUrgesSlipsThings That MatterToday's World Author:Roger Housden
“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
“The greatness of a life can only be estimated by the multitude of its actions. We should not count the years, it is our actions which constitute our life.” ShouldYearsActionOur LivesGreatnessMultitudesOur Actions Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“Most of us sleepwalk through our lives. We take all its glories, its wine, food, love, and friendship, its sunsets and its stars, its poetry and fireplaces and laughter, for granted. We forget that experience is not, or should not be, a casual encounter, but rather an embrace. Consequently, for too many of us, when we come to the end, we wonder where the years have gone. And we suspect we have not lived.” ShouldYearsEndsStarsForgetWonderGoneOur LivesGloryLaughterWineEmbraceGrantedEncountersSunsetSuspectsCasualLove And FriendshipFood LoveFireplaces Author:Jack McDevitt
“I've spent the last few years really trying to come out of that belief system. Speaking mythologically, it's like Beauty and the Beast. The beast kidnaps the beauty until she learns to love him for who he is. In a sense, our negative beliefs kidnap our greatness, our life-force. We have to go and kiss them.” TryingYearsLastsBeliefForceOur LivesGreatnessKissingNegativeBeastBelief SystemsNegative Beliefs Author:Francis Dunnery
“Technology is constantly improving our lives. Look at the cellular telephone. Just ten years ago, virtually nobody was able to get into a car crash caused by trying to steer and dial at the same time; today, people do this all the time.” PeopleTryingYearsLooksTodayAbleTechnologyOur LivesCarTenYears AgoCrashImprovingTelephonesSteersCar CrashCellularConstantly Improving Book:Dave Barry's Gift Guide to End All Gift Guides Source: Dave Barry's Gift Guide to End All Gift Guides
“We can sometimes waste years of our lives waiting to be chosen. But that is a false premise. You are already chosen!” YearsSometimesWaitingOur LivesWasteChosenWasting TimePremises Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“I like to call myself an "equal opportunist," as I love both dogs and cats, but over the last couple years, both Howard and I have become champions for cats. They are so independent and loving and playful and bring such happiness to our lives.” YearsLastsOur LivesDogCoupleEqualCatIndependentChampionCat And DogOpportunist Author:Beth Ostrosky Stern
“I think we had to push forward to make sure it was different, do something that we had never done before and yet still have the consistency to stay in the same world. This was our chance to do all the things we didn't get a chance to do before. We've been working on these movies [Kung Fu Panda] for twelve years and we have to keep things exciting for us in order for us to devote that many years of our lives to do this.” ThinkingWorldYearsStillsDifferentDoneOrderChanceOur LivesExcitingTwelveConsistencyKung FuPandasKung Fu Panda Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“That is what we have been feinting towards for a year of our lives: pretending like it was going to happen, acting like it was going to happen, and making you think it was going to happen. I like to work from the back forward.” ThinkingYearsHas BeensHappensActingOur LivesPretending Author:David Mandel
“Just because the years are passing doesn't mean that the quality of our lives must automatically go downhill.” YearsMeanQualityOur LivesPassingPassings Author:Louise Hay
“I was more tuned into the assassinations, the riots that were going on, like in Watts, and, in fact, my summer before my senior year in high school I went on the Experiment in International Living to Sweden, yes, with a group of students , you know, leisurely discussion over the summer about, you know, where we were going to go with our lives, and how did you how did, you know, being a born-again Christian mesh with being, you know, a socialist from New York.” KnowsYearsFactsSchoolChristianBornOur LivesGroupsNew YorkStudentsSummerHigh SchoolInternationalExperimentsDiscussionSocialistSeniorRiotAssassinationBorn AgainSwedenDid You KnowMeshSenior Year Author:Jill Stein
“Most progressive in the Democratic Party doesn't cut it, you know. If we still can't have a health care system that provides health care as a human right, if we still cannot, you know, ban fracking and fossil fuels and move like our lives depend on it - you know, we say in the next 15 years we need to phase out fossil fuels.” IfsKnowsNeedsYearsHumansStillsCareMovingNextPartyOur LivesCuttingDependsDemocraticHealth CareFuelProgressivePhasesFossilsDemocratic PartyBansFossil FuelHealth Care SystemFracking Author:Jill Stein
“When I was 16, my friends and I were all starting to think about what we were going to do with our lives, and I started picturing myself majoring in dance at college traveling around with a contemporary dance company, and it didn't excite me as I thought it would all those years. I was just thinking about the things that I loved most about dance, which was entertaining and telling a story, and that's when I kind of opened my eyes again to acting.” ThinkingYearsKindStoriesEyeActingCompanyOur LivesCollegeMy FriendsStartingContemporaryEntertaining Author:Haley Lu Richardson
“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.” IfsWorldWayYearsSufferingValuesPovertyTeachKnowingOur LivesInfluenceMiddleEventsAbuseLive ByTransitionCompassionateMainstreamWithout YouFamineHeadlinesBlocked Author:Richard Rohr