Our Quotes (page 16)

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• nature
• reality
• influence

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions Joseph Chilton Pearce

• journey
• lost
• culture

Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again. Anais Nin

• enemy
• come
• nearer

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• best
• vote
• swimming

Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more beautiful machines. This makes us the greatest country in the world. Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a fable. In preparatory school America is beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean and it is too bad. It is bad because people believe it all. Because they become indifferent. Because they marry and... John Cheever

• fear
• powerful
• power

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. - Marianne Williamson

• earth
• deeply
• thy

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being. Rainer Maria Rilke

• true love
• lifetime
• love

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love. Bell Hooks

• time
• progress
• mind

Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings. August Wilhelm von Schlegel

• moving
• death
• life

Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station. Paulo Coelho

• life
• endless
• way life

Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit. Ludwig Wittgenstein

• opportunity
• forward
• go

Our burden in going forward is tremendous. But our opportunity is glorious. Gordon B. Hinckley

• lies
• truths
• truthfully

Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths J. M. Coetzee

• love
• hard
• soft

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love. John Stott

• new
• different
• intelligent

Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later [...]. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? Julian Barnes

• die
• wonder
• wonderful

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die. Alfred Lord Tennyson