Us Quotes

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

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.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.