Us Quotes (page 275)

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• life
• to live
• waste

Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I. Neil Gaiman

• moments
• work
• wellness

It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe in systems and methods. I believe in the beauties of philosophy and poetry. I believe that the work we do and leave behind us is our afterlife; and I believe that history lies, but sometimes so well that I can't bring myself to resent it. I believe that truth is beauty, but not, I'm afraid, the reverse. It doesn't seem sufficient to sustain one in life's rigorous moments. Perhaps I... Emma Bull

• women
• thinking
• world

Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. The town I grew up in had many vacant lots; when I go back now, the vacant lots are gone. They were a luxury, just as tigers and rhinoceri, in the crowded world that is making, are luxuries. Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in... John Updike

• eyes
• confused
• chance

The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of. Samuel Beckett

• men
• surrounded
• making

...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep. Homer

• beautiful
• greatness
• faith

What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us. Barbara Kingsolver

• chicken
• chickens
• abortion

How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette? George Carlin

• moving
• god
• healing

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God. Ram Dass

• good
• thinking
• sometimes

It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation. Laura Ingalls Wilder

• nature
• giving
• enemy

It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies. Gary Larson

• living
• lively
• live

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10) Charles Spurgeon

• nature
• believe
• willingly

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. Henry David Thoreau

• future
• to live
• world

Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in. Evelyn Waugh

• forgiveness
• thankful
• thank you

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Garrison Keillor

• god
• imagination
• punishments

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine. Stephen King