121 Our Lives Quotes

Following is our list of our lives quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about days of our lives.

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Famous Our Lives Quotes

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. — David Mitchell

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives. — Socrates

Our life is made by the death of others. — Leonardo da Vinci

Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend. — John Green

Our lives are entwined with the people over the footlights. We are a part of them. — June Carter Cash

Our lives are written in disappearing ink. — Michelle Cliff

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. — Anne Frank

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time. — Maya Lin

Our lives are a mosaic of little things, like putting a rose in a vase on the table. — Ingrid Trobisch

Our identities are open systems, and so are our lives. — Adam Grant

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. - Annie Dillard

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. — Annie Dillard

We’re all alive, but we don’t know why or what for; we’re all searching for happiness; we’re all leading lives which are different and yet the same. — Anne Frank

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people. — Harry Chapin

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom. — William James

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others. — Rosa Parks

Short Our Lives Quotes

  • The purpose of our lives is to be happy. — Dalai Lama
  • What we do in life ripples in eternity. — Marcus Aurelius
  • Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom. — Matsuo Basho
  • There is just one life for each of us: our own. — Euripides
  • Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. — Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. — D. H. Lawrence

Top 10 Our Lives Quotes

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. — Phyllis Diller

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. - Les Brown

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. — Les Brown

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives. — Marianne Williamson

We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for. — Dolores Huerta

Don't allow your past or present condition to control you. It's just a process that you're going through to get you to the next level. — T. D. Jakes

We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone. — Crazy Horse

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. - Pablo Neruda

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. — Pablo Neruda

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure. — Beatrix Potter

When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow! — Thabo Mbeki

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Our Lives Image Quotes

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. - Oscar Wilde quote

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. — Oscar Wilde

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. - Roger Caras quote

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. — Roger Caras

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King, Jr. quote

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

All of our dreams can come true... - Walt Disney quote

All of our dreams can come true... — Walt Disney

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. - Louise L. Hay quote

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. — Louise L. Hay

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. - Harrison Ford quote

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. — Harrison Ford

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. - David Lloyd George quote

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. — David Lloyd George

The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live. - Federico Garcia Lorca quote

The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Love your family, work super hard, live your passion. - Gary Vaynerchuk quote

Love your family, work super hard, live your passion. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find. - Beth Orton quote

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find. — Beth Orton

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom! - Mel Gibson quote

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom! — Mel Gibson

Our lives quote For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Days Of Our Lives Quotes

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. — Michael Landon

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless

Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they will say, things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day's problems. — Anthony of Padua

Our lives quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days. — Jerry Falwell

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. - Charles R. Swindoll

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. — Charles R. Swindoll

Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man. — Abraham Lincoln

Our lives quote Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.

We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears. — Jim Valvano

Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother — Jane Goodall

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. - Jane Austen

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. — Jane Austen

The Beginning Of The Rest Of Our Lives Quotes

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives. — Terry Pratchett

When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves, what is left is further vision and further openness, which leads to cleaning up the rest of the world. — Chogyam Trungpa

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. — Cyril Connolly

Our lives quote Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.

The bombs held in current nuclear arsenals are seventy times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. If we don't begin opposing the drift towards more and more of them, we will live in the shadow of the mushroom cloud for the rest of our lives - and millions may die there. — Johann Hari

Failure to get a right viewpoint in the beginning of our Christian lives may result in weakness and sterility for the rest of our days! — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Light Of Our Lives Quotes

There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us. — Joan D. Chittister

When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light. — Richard Meier

Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But perhaps we are concentrating on lighting the world because we don't know how to light up our own lives. — Ralph Levy

Our lives quote If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future.
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world. — Virgil Goode

Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully. — Donna Farhi

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our lives quote Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

Our lives pass from us like the wind, and why Should wise men grieve to know that they must die? The Judas blossom fades, the lovely face Of light is dimmed, and darkness takes its place. — Abolqasem Ferdowsi

I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love. — Helen Keller

We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior. — Paule Marshall

The light has gone out of our lives... Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light... and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it... For that light represented the living truth. — Jawaharlal Nehru

People In Our Lives Quotes

Hillary Clinton has shown no indication whatsoever of stemming the tide of Islamic immigration, or stopping our mollycoddling, and pandering to Islam. These things are direct threats. Not just to culture, but to the lives of gay people in America. — Milo Yiannopoulos

And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted. — Nate Saint

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives. — John F. Kennedy

Our lives quote Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others.
Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others.

I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love. — Leo Buscaglia

Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it's not just work, but something that will improve other people's lives. — Satya Nadella

Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead. — Bob Goff

Our lives quote Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.

The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion. — Sitting Bull

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons. — Byron Katie

People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ... If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics. — Martha Gellhorn

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own. — Paulo Coelho

Our Thoughts Quotes

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. — William James

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. — Swami Vivekananda

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. — Henry David Thoreau

Our lives quote If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, tha
If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, than you're a badass with a heart of an angel.

Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS! — Viktor E. Frankl

Our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius

Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius

You must sacrifice every thought, every ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood. — Francisco Franco

Our lives quote Live the way you want to be remembered.
Live the way you want to be remembered.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.' — Chinua Achebe

Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds. — Buddha

They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God. — Teresa of Avila

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. — Florence Scovel Shinn

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More Our Lives Quotes

Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth.We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not , know the Absolute Truth. — Subhas Chandra Bose

During my term in AU, I will initiate an organised compensation claim for Africa and I will fight for a greater voice for Africa in the United Nations Security Council. If they (Western nations) do not want to live with us fairly, it is our planet and they can go to other planet. — Muammar al-Gaddafi

To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate — William Wilberforce

I can prophecy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism -- Our firm conviction is that sooner or later Capitalism will give way to Socialism. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. — Nikita Khrushchev

The purpose of a spirit filled life is to demonstrate the supernatural power of our living God so that the unsaved multitudes will abandon their dead gods to call upon the name of The Lord and be delivered. — T.L. Osborn

You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. — Jerry Garcia

The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now have. That lays upon us, whether we like it or not, an awesome responsibility. In our hands now lies not only our own future, but that of all other living creatures with whom we share the earth. — David Attenborough

Whenever God begins something, we have the assurance that He will finish it. Nothing will stand in the way of Him accomplishing His purpose in this world and in our lives. What God starts, He finishes, and nobody can hinder Him. Sure, delays will happen. Just remember, God is in charge of the delays as well as the progress. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have within us, a power that is greater than anything we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, in a new light, and in a new life. — Ernest Holmes

Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on, and makes us active in living righteous lives and doing good. There is no self-confidence to compare with this. — Huldrych Zwingli

Indeed our words will remain lifeless, barren, devoid of any passion, until we die as a result of these words, whereupon our words will suddenly spring to life and live amongst the hearts that are dead, bringing them to life as well. — Sayyid Qutb

At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies. — Theodore Roosevelt

Love is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life. We live for the sake of love, and we live seeking love... it is not surprising that we keep looking for love. All of us are nothing but vibrations of love. We are sustained by love, and in the end we merge back into love. — Swami Muktananda

Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives. — Henri Nouwen

We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we've cleared the way. — Michelle Obama

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there. — Paulo Coelho

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