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Obviously the choices of other people affect our lives, but we are the primary creators of our experience. — Shepherd Hoodwin

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer. — Ray Bradbury

Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly. — Jan Zwicky

Some things exist in our lives for but a brief moment. And we must let them go on to light another sky. — Renee Ahdieh

but mostly his work just made him dislike houses. These enormous anchors that people tied to their lives. — Emily St. John Mandel

But our mercy has a cost, and it might be our lives. — Victoria Aveyard

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death. — Countee Cullen

They might have gone through their lives with much less than I have, but they have enriched my life in ways I can't begin to express. — Kiera Cass

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's. — Ian Thorpe

Our parents are the primal source. We make our own lives, but our origin stories are theirs. They go back with us to the beginning of time. — Cheryl Strayed

Time teaches all things to him who lives forever but I have not the luxury of eternity. — Og Mandino

But this is not the story of a life. It is the story of lives, knit together, overlapping in succession, rising again from grave after grave. — Wendell Berry

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. — Toni Morrison

O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! — Thomas Hood

We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our own lives but reactors. — Frederick Buechner

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The world may argue against a creed, but it cannot argue against changed lives. — Billy Graham

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible. — Abigail Padgett

So our lives In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but doth to others give Matter for virtuous deeds, by which we live. — George Chapman

They all walk their own paths, live their own lives. A journey without farewells, a beginning without end. It is a little lonely, but that's how it is — Nobuhiro Watsuki

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it. — Peter F. Drucker

We live our lives by measures of weeks, months, years, but the creatures we truly are, those are exposed in fractions of moments. — Joshua Gaylord

All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies — Josephus

Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one. — John Steinbeck

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives. — Isadora Duncan

Lives should never be down to mere words, but I suppose they always are. Whether declarations of war, law, or treaty ... words ever determine lives. — Leanna Renee Hieber

I love the stage, it's my first love - but, it's gone. You do your performance, then it's a memory. It only lives in the moment. — Ruthie Henshall

To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives. — Gilles Deleuze

Our lives are but our marches to the grave. — Francis Beaumont

Are we nothing but heel skin and blisters? Traveling a straight line to the end of our lives? — Ramona Ausubel

Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Some people will go around the world to find God's will for their lives but will not go to the next room to read their Bible. — Zane Pratt

Body sizes can be remarkable for their variations from accepted norms, but still explain almost nothing about the lives led inside those bodies. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting. — John Grisham

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up. — Anthony Hopkins

None of our lives were perfect, we all had faced bumps in the road, loss, and heartache. But together we made our own mismatched kind of family. — Elizabeth Dennis

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. — William Shakespeare

Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness. — Victor Hugo

We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly. — Tony Dungy

Our lives are not good - it is not the Afghanistan we remember - but it is still life. — Eric Blehm

We're doomed to be do-gooders for the rest of our lives and doomed to fail. But, happily, truth is a relative business. — Jo Nesbo

Our thoughts are the epochs in our lives, all else is but as a journal of the winds that blew while we were here. — Henry David Thoreau

We can fill our lives with 'stuff,' but as we do we're concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that 'stuff. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Should anyone knock at my heart and say, 'Who lives here?' I should reply, 'Not Martin Luther, but the Lord Jesus Christ.' — Martin Luther

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution. — Viktor Yushchenko

Eventually, humans will die out. Nobody knows when,12 but nothing lives forever. — Randall Munroe

I was a monster who killed and preyed on human life; I could never escape that, but at least I could choose what kind of lives I took — Julie Kagawa

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic. — Louisa May Alcott

But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear. Valentine — Orson Scott Card

There is then no sacred or profane, spiritual or sensual, but everything that lives is pure and void. — Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me. — Katherine Moennig

Hard lives begat hard laws, not just in the necessities of living, but also in those of believing. — Steven Erikson

Most people will actually tell you, traveling to those exotic places is enjoying life, but really they are spending away and whining away their lives. — Sunday Adelaja

What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. — Charles Bukowski

In the end though, everybody dies, but not everybody lives - the climber, though he may die young, will have lived. — Mark Lawrence

A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life ... but a painted surface lives. — Kazimir Malevich

Life is short, but art lives forever. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

All are failures makes us change our lives, but changes our will always be in our memories. — Jim Jensen

Nowadays are the world doesn't need words, but lives which cannot be explained except through faith & love for Christ's poor — Pedro Arrupe

This can be lonely work, but it connects you to other people in ways that many of the things we could do with our lives do not. — Christine Sneed

We are very happy. Or, no. We are not happy, exactly. But we love each other very much, and this charges our lives with shape and light. — Anne Enright

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone. — Lorna Luft

But you," "Sixteen is perfect. You can spend the rest of your lives together. He won't have to be alone. — Lauren DeStefano

We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road. — Tony Snow

We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally. — Margaret Wise Brown

It was once a house of God, but not after that terrible night. It changed; they let that woman in and it changed their lives for ever. — Helen Phifer

There are many people that we meet in our lives. But only a very few will make a lasting impression on our minds and hearts. — Susan Polis Schutz

May misfortune follow us for the rest of our lives, but never catch up-Nicolas Fox, The Heist — Janet Evanovich

We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always. — Clive Barker

Old things are replaced by new ones but the only old ones that cant be replaced are the ones with something with our lives. — Anthony Castillo

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. — Subhas Chandra Bose

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives — Charlotte Gray

Good is that darkening of our lives,
Which only God can brighten;
But better still that hopeless load,
Which none but God can lighten. — Frederick William Faber

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies. — Anais Nin

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like season'd timbered, never gives;
But though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives. — George Herbert

If you believe that goodness lives on forever, then you might also believe that death is but temporary. — Val Edward Simone

But life isn't like that. You can't be sure how it's going to come out, even if you do everything right. They turn around on you, lives do. — Ava Dellaira

But I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others. — Jimmy Buffett

Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's hard to admit, but if we're brutally honest with ourselves, we see that God is more responsible for the accomplishments of our lives than we are. — Tim Hiller

A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book. — Rebecca Mead

You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important. — Victoria Beckham

Those who take lives will lose their own. Those who kill, will die. But he who gives his own life away will live again! — Philip K. Dick

This book is a personal memoir; but it is also a larger story-about carelessness and guilt, and the wreckage they can make of lives. — Brooke Hayward

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time - even when hard at work. — Marcus Aurelius

People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives. — Criss Jami

Lives are short, but knowledge is eternal. — Rachel Caine

They tell me how they are not scared to die, but they are terrified of the lives circumstance forces them to lead. — Thomm Quackenbush

But women like Tess didn't seem to have that need to share the ordinary facts of their lives, and that made Cecilia desperate to know them. — Liane Moriarty

Why can men be boys all of their lives, but we women must grow old while we are yet young? — Sylvia Day

People liked to imagine they were free to choose their own lives, but she had learned that choice was sometimes illusory. — Nicholas Sparks

Failure comes into our lives not to fail us, but it comes to make us wiser and stronger through the lessons of life. — Debasish Mridha

It was beautiful how effortlessly lives intersected, but so underwhelming when no one seemed to notice — Sarah Dayan

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. — Lin Yutang

When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives. — Amy Vanderbilt

But making disciples is far more than a program. It is the mission of our lives. It defines us. A disciple is a disciple maker. — Francis Chan

But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing. It is the fact of doing that remains. — Dan Simmons

What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own? — John Searles

He knows the day, the hour, the minute that something in particular needs to happen in our lives. He may not be early, but He's never late. — Cheryl McKay