#our lives

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#been #century #change #dictated #historian

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#departing #footprints #great #great men #leave

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

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy. ↗

— Juliette Gordon Low

#energies #future #girl #girl scouts #go

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

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#artificial #exist #invest #lives #media

We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#crises #does #ebb #flow #god

Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#children #commitment #father #his #indeed