Quotes About What Shapes Our Lives

#1. Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.

Robert Caro

#2. A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

Deepak Chopra

#3. How we prepare our food, how we consume our food really makes a difference in how our food satisfies us and shapes the role we give food in our lives. Is it something we stuff in to satisfy an urge or something we savor to feed us physically and sustain us spiritually?

Mary DeTurris Poust

#4. The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty.

Charles Dickens

#5. We enter people's lives and then realize we've walked into a deep and long history that shapes and gives form to our every moment.

Jill Bialosky

#6. The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

Malala Yousafzai

#7. Like the elite of ancient Egypt, most people in most cultures dedicate their lives to building pyramids. Only the names, shapes and sizes of these pyramids change from one culture to the other. They

Yuval Noah Harari

#8. Wishes are just wishes. Destiny is just destiny. And neither really has control over your life. Shit happens, shapes our lives, but doesn't have to shape who we are.

Jessica Sorensen

#9. Warriors use their intent and will to shape their lives. All of their actions are conscious, intentional, and complete.

Kerr Cuhulain

#10. What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.

Sam Keen

#11. There's a divinity that shapes beauty from our rough hewn lives.

Brent Weeks

#12. Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation ...

M.F.K. Fisher

#13. What are any of our lives but the shapes we force them into. Memory doesn't come to us of its own; we go after it, pull it into sunlight and make of it what we need, what we're driven towards, what we imagine, changing the world again and again with each new quarry, each descent, each morning.

James Sallis

#14. I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

Robert Caro

#15. The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings ... The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#16. As if music could be crushed like a condemned building or a stubborn anarchist. But it could not. It always rose and returned, vital, immense, fortified by new instruments, new shapes, new musicians crazy enough to give their lives to it like underground, unsanctioned priests.

Carolina De Robertis

#17. We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is true that our lives are chaotic and we crave a shape, stories are the shapes that we put on experience, containing all the wisdom in the world. We can even choose what kind of wisdom suits us.

Ramona Koval

#18. 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

#19. Purpose is the quality we choose to shape our lives around.

Richard Leider

#20. 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.

Anthony Robbins

#21. It's the moments of our life that shape us.

Tony Robbins

#22. The media has enormous power. The media is undergoing huge changes now. It seemed like it's time to step back and look at how the media shapes our lives and our perceptions of reality.

Thomas Hunt Morgan

#23. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.

Anthony Robbins

#24. I love how pop culture shapes a generation. The trends, fashion and events all play a key part in how we live our present lives, and will mark how we will be remembered in the future.

Connor Franta

#25. Our lives are a constellation of events, strung together, glittering; the shapes only being seen from a distance.

Patricia Robin Woodruff

#26. Our minds, bodies, feelings, relationships are all informed by our questions. What you ask is who you are. What you find depends on what you search for. And what shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think of asking.

Sam Keen

#27. We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

Albert Einstein

#28. Sometimes it's not what we hold on to that shapes our lives--it's what we're willing to let go of.

Beth Hoffman

#29. What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.

Wayne Muller

#30. With the Rosary, we allow ourselves to be guided by Mary, model of faith, in meditating on the mysteries of Christ, and day after day we are helped to assimilate the Gospel, so that it shapes all our lives.

Pope Benedict XVI

#31. Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

Joseph Beuys