Our Lives quotes
345 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"We are all immersed in the atmosphere of our own thinking, which is the direct result of all we have ever said, thought or done. This decides what is to take place in our lives."
"It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words."
"We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are"
"The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life."
"Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives."
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"We meet no ordinary people in our lives."
"If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives"
"The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives."
"We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well."
"He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."
"Usually when we do something to corrupt our lives, it's usually something to fulfill an ache that we have."
"Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations."
"Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it."
"The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others."
"We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it."
"I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down planets to make our life work."
"Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them."
"Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all."
"Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated."
"To learn to live from the heart it doesn't just change our feeling about life, it actually changes our life."
"When every day seems the same, it is because we have stopped noticing the good things that appear in our lives."
"Our lives are God's messengers beneath the stars."
"The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard."
"It's pain that changes our lives."
"Nothing could have survived our life."
