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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis

Happiness, Whatever, Lives

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri Nouwen

Pain, Person, Giving

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

End, Become, Matter

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama

Happy, Purpose, Lives

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein

Beauty, Truth, Children

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

Mind, Deep, Single

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Long, Die, Until

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis

Life, Respect, Daily

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas Jefferson

Religion, Words, Lives

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
Ronald Reagan

Life, Work, Mind

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma Gandhi

Writing, Study, Lives

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
Wayne Dyer

Change, Minds, Lives

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Tony Robbins

Change, Wish, Lives

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Beautiful, Waiting, Brave

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
Steven Spielberg

Single, Person, Different

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

Children, Lives, Memory

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Tony Robbins

Control, Once, Lives

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
Robert Kennedy

God, Black, Lives

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Tony Robbins

Become, Lives, Meaning

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
Tony Robbins

Today, Tomorrow, Become

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Tony Robbins

Mean, Lives, Events

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Tony Robbins

Focus, Single, Idea

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
Wayne Dyer

Made, Lives, Choices

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

Big, Chance, Lives

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.
Pope Paul VI

Life, Live, Start

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Tony Robbins

Others, Lives, Ourselves

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
Ron Paul

Freedom, Government, Nothing

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Erma Bombeck

Courage, Children, Lives

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

Life, Whole, Lives

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
William Throsby Bridges

Moving, Lives, Whether

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