#our lives

We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#grew #how #into #just #kind

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. ↗

— Walter Anderson

#difficult #first #honest #improve #lives

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#consideration #creature #dies #given #imaginary

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#educational #every #follows #fresh #little

Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#around #change #constant #frightening #hold

Like Jermaine was saying, it's a beautiful day, and we're just glad all of this is behind us. We can go on with our lives. And Michael can go on with his life and do what he does best, and that's making good music, making his fans happy, people happy all over the world. ↗

— Tito Jackson

#beautiful day #behind #best #day #does

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. ↗

— Erica Jong

#grade #grade school #language #lives #most

It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family. ↗

— Alan Keyes

#accept #agenda #areas #concept #destroying

My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California. ↗

— Pete McCloskey

#california #half #i #lives #our

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior. ↗

— Thomas Nashe

#appear #behavior #fruits #learning #lives