We Spend Our Lives Quotes

#1. When we spend our lives (knowingly or unknowingly) pushing away vulnerability, we can't hold space open for the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure of joy.

Brene Brown

#2. As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.

Terrence Howard

#3. Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool.

Robert Brault

#4. We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#5. We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

Barbara Johnson

#6. We spend our lives in such a hurry, so self-centred, that we forget the simple act of observing the life that's simmering all around us. Looking others in the eye, seeing more than faces. Maybe that's why we feel so lonely.

Filipa Fonseca Silva

#7. We spend our lives getting caught up in all the wrong things
led astray by our minds, our egos, seeing ourselves as separate from each other, rather than listening to the truth that lies within our own hearts, the truth that we are all connected, we are all in it together.

Alyson Noel

#8. We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

Dave Allen

#9. We were born to be friends. We both knew it. The Australian Aborigines have the traditional belief that a complete human being comprises two parts that are split before birth, that we spend our lives seeking the other part to make ourselves whole again, and that only the lucky succeed in doing so.

John Grant

#10. We spend our lives asking the question, 'What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?' But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our lives in the pursuit of discovering who we are and what we were created to do.

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#11. How we spend our days is how we spend our lives, and it's the rare person who can walk away from what feels like a sure thing.

Wes Moore

#12. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

#13. We spend our lives in the attempt to capture memory forever; to capture moments; to capture Time itself.

Melissa Thayer

#14. That's what I Am a Strange Loop is about," said Deborah. "It's about how we spend our lives self-referencing, over and over, in a kind of strange loop.

Jon Ronson

#15. The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.

Adam Carolla

#16. Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

Eugene O'Neill

#17. We spend our lives on a thin slice between the unimaginably small scales of the atoms that compose us and the infinitely large scales of galaxies.

David Eagleman

#18. We spend our lives failing to realise this obvious truth, and thus anxiously seeking to fortify our boundaries, to build our egos and assert our superiority over others, as if we could separate ourselves from them, without realising that interdependence makes us what we are.

Oliver Burkeman

#19. We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

Jules Renard

#20. She held in her hands for one brief moment the globe which we spend our lives in trying to shape, round, whole, and entire from the confusion of chaos.

Virginia Woolf

#21. Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.

Samuel Butler

#22. Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another.

David Platt

#23. We are merely ghost flowers under the shade of the moon
Many shades of secret sorrows blanket our eyes
We spend our lives and our souls
Searching-
Longing-
Waiting-
For a little light to shine and heal our broken halo's

Steven A. Williams

#24. Would you like an interview for the drama, too?"
"I can't act."
"Everyone can act. We spend our lives acting.

Tanith Lee

#25. We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. It must be somewhere up there on the horizon, we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.

William Logan

#26. We're set in motion and then we spend our lives maintaining that motion, but to what end? For what purpose?

Carrie Ryan

#27. We spend our lives drowning in the sea of things we never wished to experience.

Robert A. Giacalone

#28. Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

Beth Orton

#29. Life does not wait: Whether we spend our lives meaningfully or not, the time will be used up moment by moment.

Dalai Lama

#30. We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word every now and then.

Orson Scott Card

#31. Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#32. When your eyes are softly focused on the horizon for sustained periods, your brain releases endorphins. It's the same as a runner's high. These days, we spend our lives staring at screens twelve inches in front of us.

Maria Semple

#33. We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.

Helen Fisher

#34. We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

Sharon Salzberg

#35. Everyone in life has a story to tell, and sometimes there are things in our past we spend our lives running from. This book is dedicated to those who have retired their running shoes and found a piece of happiness they can call home.

Dannika Dark

#36. We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

Jorge Luis Borges

#37. How we schedule our days is how we spend our lives.

Gretchen Rubin

#38. The moment we're born, we start dying. We spend our lives dying.

Kelly Parsons

#39. Most of the things we spend our lives chasing will turn to dust in the end.

LeCrae

#40. What every traveler confronts sooner or later is that the way we spend each day of our travel ... is the way we spend our lives.

Phil Cousineau

#41. We spend our lives telling ourselves the story of past and future, while the reality of the present goes largely unexplored. Now we live in ignorance of the freedom and simplicity of consciousness, prior to the arising of thought.

Sam Harris

#42. There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me ... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.

Bing Crosby

#43. How we respond to moments of interruption determine who we become and how we spend our lives. But you can never fully live in your calling without going through struggle, fear, and failure. Our decisions in those moments determine the legacy we will live.

Chris Marlow

#44. We all gotta die, and we all gotta live with the things our dark sides do. People are afraid of their darkness, though. Spend their whole lives so scared of dyin' that they never get to live. Spend their whole lives pushin' down that darkness, until there ain't no light at all.

Suzanne Palmieri

#45. Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.

Aida Overton Walker

#46. We spend most of our lives striving so hard
to earn our own permission to be at rest
where we are
- when we could have done it all along.

Ivan M. Granger

#47. How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself
the task of a lifetime
becomes the answer.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#48. We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us - anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.

Bill Russell

#49. My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend most of our time writing, and kind of going to yoga in Brooklyn.

Mike Birbiglia

#50. We spend half of our lives preparing to live-instead of just living.

Leah Newman Fredrichs

#51. I'm interested in how identity is transient. How do we know who we really are, when different situations and environments dictate how we behave? I'm interested in the role we all play. We spend our whole lives becoming ourselves when we are born as no one else.

Marina And The Diamonds

#52. Do not allow the adumbrations of Aristotelian logic to prevent you from seeing a vast spectrum of truths; the post-Boolean continuum of shades of grey where we spend most of our lives.

Bryant McGill

#53. Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?

Arundhati Roy

#54. When we spend a lifetime trying to distance ourselves from the parts of our lives that don't fit with who we think we're supposed to be, we stand outside of our story and hustle for our worthiness by constantly performing, perfecting, pleasing, and proving.

Brene Brown

#55. Not for the first time, Peter thought about how much of our lives we spend sequestered inside small patches of electric brightness, blind to everything beyond the reach of those fragile bulbs.

Michel Faber

#56. We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would have nothing to evade, and nothing to forestall, and nothing to wonder about. Time would have no consequence.

Eleanor Catton

#57. Focus is not a 'business only' thing. Each person has only twenty-four hours per day, and how we spend those hours shows what's important in our lives. The question we must ask ourselves is ... Are we focusing on what really matters?

Mac Anderson

#58. For many of us, especially women, the gap between what we want or need and what our society expects of us is wide indeed, and we spend out lives trying to negotiate it. Trying to balance work and family, responsibilities and desires, all that stuff. It is not easy.

Lee Smith

#59. We spend much of the first half of our lives trying to build internal models that fit the world and much of the last half of our lives trying to adjust the world so it fits the inner models.

Bruce Wexler

#60. Too often we become so consumed with how we spend our days that we lose track of how we are spending our lives.

Sally Warner

#61. Death. It is a strange stalker, one that we spend our whole lives running from, some more successful than others.

Alessandra Torre

#62. We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.

Margaret Wise Brown

#63. Even if God never did another good thing in our lives, we could spend the rest of this life praising Him for what He has already done.

Dillon Burroughs

#64. The only currency that we really have to spend during our lives is time. Everything else is just a sub-category.

Stephen R. Bown

#65. We spend our whole lives running from our past, never realizing it's hitched to us - we can't ever outrun it.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#66. We can't spend our lives wondering, 'what if?' We must simply make the best of what we have. -Lady Mary Wynne-Jones

Eve Silver

#67. I love you, Taylor Carmichael Corretti. I love you for better and for worse - preferably worse, by the way." His eyes glittered into hers. "I love a bad girl. Think about it - if I marry you we can spend the rest of our lives shocking people.

Sarah Morgan

#68. Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.

John Green

#69. Either we will spend our lives trying to take care of ourselves or we will let go and let God take care of us as we put our faith and trust in Him.

Joyce Meyer

#70. The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.

Henry David Thoreau

#71. Being aware of our feelings sounds easy, but it's not because many of us spend our entire lives pushing feelings aside as we try to please others.

Sue Patton Thoele

#72. We are amazingly similar to the children of Israel. We spend half our lives looking back at our own Egypt with selective memories, longing to have our comfort zone back. Then we spend the other half wishing our days away for a dreamy future in our own promised land.

Lysa TerKeurst

#73. We all spend our lives kicking the crap out of ourselves for not being this way or that way, not having this thing or that thing, not being like this person or that person.

Shonda Rhimes

#74. We can spend out lives letting others dictate our narrative, and cast ourselves as the victims. Or we can realize the truth: that we are the creators of our own story.

Rania Al-Abdullah

#75. It seemed we Chechens spend our energies building our houses and our lives, only to have the devastated and to start rebuilding them again.

Khassan Baiev

#76. The average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and we have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours - one-third of our lives on earth - spinning fantasies.

Jonathan Gottschall

#77. We are all of us doomed to spend our lives watching a movie of our lives - we are always acting on what has just finished happening.

Tom Wolfe

#78. We spend time worrying about our kids' faith when the greatest influence in their lives is you sticking to yours.

Mark Holmen

#79. We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives ... not looking for flaws, but for potential.

Ellen Goodman

#80. We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.

Nenia Campbell

#81. Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.

Philip Zimbardo

#82. But we spend all our lives looking for puzzle pieces that will give us a clearer picture of ourselves, of where we're supposed to go and who we're supposed to be.

Sarah Addison Allen

#83. All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory.

Willard Gaylin

#84. We spend most of our lives in relationships or bringing up children which are a product of relationships.

Peter F. Hamilton

#85. We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend
our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.

Dale E. Turner

#86. We spend our life until we're twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.

Robert Bly

#87. Even if the whole of the man-made world could, through relentless effort and sacrifice, be modelled to rival St Mark's Square, even if we could spend the rest of our lives in the Villa Rotonda or the Glass House, we would still often be in a bad mood. 7.

Alain De Botton

#88. World's full of things to lose yourself in. Don't mean we should spend our whole lives behind the wards.

Peter V. Brett

#89. It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.

William Boyd

#90. Most of us have to spend a lot of energy to learn how to drive a car. Then we have to spend the rest of our lives over-concentrating as we drive and text and eat a burrito and put on makeup. As a result, 30,000 people die every year in a car accident in the U.S.

Astro Teller

#91. Spending time to learn and to gather better information is what we do most in our lives. We go to school, spend time there, and learn things important in our life. We do this only for one reason, to be happy.

Auliq Ice

#92. The world is a giant community now. This excuse of distance, time, doesn't work ... We're all so connected. We can't spend every second of our lives worrying about another family miles away but we somehow have to factor it in where we can.

Ralph Fiennes

#93. I've realized the most effective writing and living are done when we are willing to be vulnerable. I think we spend most of our lives trying to cover up our insecurities.

Katie Kiesler

#94. Unfortunately, many of us often spend our lives doing what we were trained to do. Some do what they were asked to do. And most of us do what others need us to do. And all the while, we wonder why the feeling of fulfillment eludes us.

T.D. Jakes

#95. As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

Joyce Meyer

#96. Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

Maurice Maeterlinck

#97. It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.

John Grisham

#98. We humans can spend our whole lives pondering the meaning of 'good' and 'evil,' but we will never be able to figure it out. The only thing that human beings can do is come up with a yardstick by which to measure good and evil.

Soko Morinaga

#99. We spend our youth attempting to change the future, he explained, and the rest of our lives trying to preserve the past.

Christopher Fowler

#100. One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It's hard to unlearn such hierarchy, to undo such control. It's implicit.

Cliff James