I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us.
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Related Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... CRAIG GROESCHEL A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or le... PAULO COELHO We each can accomplish so much in this world. There is no room for boredom ROXE I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phone... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Every time we rock our babies in the night, we bring order back to a disordered world. Every time we... BEN SHAPIRO The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thoug... ALDOUS HUXLEY Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO When someone says we need to talk , what he or she usually means is you will listen . An... JAMES ANDERSON There is a memorandum given by the US embassy in Delhi to the external affairs ministry on this issu... GURUDAS DASGUPTA Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly... GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end... DEYTH BANGER We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can&... GUY SPIER … "That at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what´s happening to us, and our lives... PAULO COELHO This is our time. We believe we are the best basketball team out there. We have a very talented grou... BILL LAIMBEER Our conduct has a direct influence on how people think about the gospel. The world doesn't judge us ... CAROLYN MAHANEY This oath is the oath we all swear. Not to a god, or a master, or to the Ludu Achillea...but to our ... LESLEY LIVINGSTON But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat... LEWIS CARROLL It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope. DAVID LEVITHAN Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif... REBECCA GOLDSTEIN The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Each time we surrender, we find once more that the desperation that drives us to our knees fuels the... NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. ALBERT EINSTEIN If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. ALAN WATTS We live in relative world with relatives. DEYTH BANGER I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will d... JOSHUA LEDERBERG I think there's a collective consciousness around the world that there are things beyond our con... LAURIE HOLDEN Life was given to us to be happy and to be what we want to be. Enough of letting the unknown force t... PHILIP T. M. I think we are all insecure, and there is nothing wrong in accepting that. But the problem arises wh... SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many wor... FRANS LANTING I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to self... GARY CHAPMAN I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both ... ARTHUR GOLDEN You know that feeling of invincibility you sometimes get, especially when young and testing yourself... JAY WOODMAN We can’t control the things or people that are external to us, that happen to us, but we can contr... GYALWA DOKHAMPA There's no "i" in we, but it is in egoic. When you think about we instead of me, then and only then ... CELESTINE L. GRAY There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what m... SYLVIA EARLE A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don&... HORTON FOOTE We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or... ERICH FROMM I have a very open mind. I believe that there's a spirit world. I believe that there's a lot... ANTHONY HEAD Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer. AKIROQ BROST Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba... DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer... ... Silence doesn't make it... bet... DEYTH BANGER What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar... T.J. KLUNE We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we m... JOHN CONNOLLY The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN We humans may be brilliant and we may be special, but we are still connected to the rest of life. No... PATRICIA B. MCCONNELL Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and wha... MARISSA MEYER She is sugar, curiosity, and rain. E. LOCKHART We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to g... JOEL OSTEEN So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I'd say that we dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the sam... STEPHEN LABERGE Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may no... DAVID A. BEDNAR Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to co... ALFRED A. MONTAPERT Tranquility is a Choice. So is Anxiety. The entire world around us may be in Turmoil. But if we want... RVM Our lives are marked and shaped by our regrets. Things we all want to take back and can’t. In a pe... SHERRILYN KENYON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... We have become disconnected from our true selves, and naturally, this has produced a deep sense of l... JOSEPH P. KAUFFMAN I can't control what's fair and unfair. I can't control the nature of the business or th... AISHA TYLER Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for th... KAZUO ISHIGURO We should stop trying to find differences between one another, and focus on our similarities. BEN OAK We may be more sophisticated in how we hide it, but there are still so many phobias in this world, w... BONNIE HAMMER Where are the Asian leading men? Well, we're being kicked to the ground; we're not being sup... VINCENT RODRIGUEZ III I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu... C. JOYBELL C.
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