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Our Lives Quotes (page 49)

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Howard Zinn quote: "Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty..."
Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives. Howard Zinn
Orson Scott Card quote: "If only we could stand outside our lives and look at what we..."
If only we could stand outside our lives and look at what we do, we might repair so many injuries before they're done. Orson Scott Card
Stephen King quote: "I the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no..."
I the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all. Stephen King
Well, you can't tell it from looking at him....It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how. Ann Patchett
What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives. Daniel Dennett
Dick Clark quote: "Music is the soundtrack of our lives."
Music is the soundtrack of our lives. Dick Clark
I was going to suggest some hard-won guidelines for responsible reviewing. For instance: First, as in Hippocrates, do no harm. Second, never stoop to score a point or bite an ankle. Third, always understand that in this symbiosis, you are the parasite. Fourth, look with an open heart and mind at every different kind of book with every change of emotional weather because we are reading for our lives and that could be love gone out the window or a horseman on the roof. Fifth, use theory only as... John Leonard
Danielle Steel quote: "maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives..."
...maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through... Danielle Steel
I could have. What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything. Paulo Coelho
Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world. Elizabeth Gilbert
I therefore invite you all," Mr Fox went on, 'to stay here with me for ever.'For ever!' they cried. 'My goodness! How marvellous!' And Rabbit said to Mrs Rabbit, 'My dear, just think! We're never going to be shot again in our lives!'We will make,' said Mr Fox, 'a little underground village, with streets and houses on each side - seperate houses for Badgers and Moles and Rabbits and Weasels and Foxes. And every day I will go shopping for you all. And every day we will eat like kings.'The... Roald Dahl
Louis de Bernieres quote: "Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when..."
Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected? Louis de Bernieres
At what point in our lives do we stop blurring? When do we become crisp individuals? What must we do in order to end these fuzzy identities - to clarify just who it is we really are? -Richard Doug Coupland
Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger? Arundhati Roy

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