Us Quotes

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.