#our lives

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

#already #become #competencies #daily #daily life

The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like. ↗

— John Barton

#belong #busier #children #close #community

I love the role that men play in our lives. ↗

— Shania Twain

#i love #lives #love #men #our

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#difficulty #entire #forever #free #lives

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#beginning #being #being human #end #epic

With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat - I mean, you can't drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit - a guy needs to be smarter and more determined to get lean. ↗

— David Zinczenko

#any #chain #determined #down #drive

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#christ #coming #live #lives #our

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#effect #ever #help #isolating #lives

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#duty #furnish #live #lives #mind

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#conception #course #created #general #guided