#our lives

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. ↗

— Lillian Smith

#future #leave #lives #only #open

There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#harmony #human #human beings #lives #need

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#architecture #been #before #bridge #change

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#consciousness #dealing #further #lesbian #lives

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#bearing #bring #changes #direct #hope

What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom. ↗

— Bob Taft

#faith #family #focus #freedom #friends

In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers. ↗

— Estelle Morris

#become #century #could #few #flexibility

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

— Toni Morrison

#language #life #lives #may #meaning

With Crosby, Stills, and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young... we're very strong individuals, and we want our lives to be led the way we want them to. ↗

— Graham Nash

#individuals #led #lives #our #our lives

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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