Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects.
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Related The best stories come from deep within us and are of us. Either our inner child comes out to play an... JUDITH KOHNEN Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior BOETHIUS Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and. GLORIA STEINEM The label error was detected during a routine label verification process. As part of our commitment ... MARIA BROUS Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH We're hoping to sell our EP at our gigs and market it to radio stations and record labels. Our end g... BRAD CALLOW If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us ... OLIVER SACKS Due to the potential for health risks and environmental impacts, pesticide producers need to ensure ... ENRIQUE MANZANILLA Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us ... WILLA CATHER We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our
fellowmen; and along those... HERMAN MELVILLE Whether they stem from business or personal situations, our relationships are what support us, conne... MICHELLE TILLIS LEDERMAN Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and crea... IAN MACKAYE We must adopt loathsome diseases for our familiar associates, or we shall never be thoroughly acquai... JOHN ABERNETHY Now that we have Patrick as our manager, ... we have quite a few labels that are interested in us. CAM GRENSTINER We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those... HERMAN MELVILLE Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and crea... IAN MACKAYE You live in a society, that always demands you to have a label to define yourself. Now it's up to yo... ABHIJIT NASKAR The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with la... MARK HYMAN The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power comi... WILLA CATHER The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power comi... WILLA SIBERT CATHER When we accept the labels placed on us by ourselves and others, we then restrict and limit ourselves... NANETTE MATHEWS We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those... HERMAN MELVILLE Go ahead and label me, cause labels are made for gifts. ROBERT M. HENSEL We learn that our spirit is not apart from us; it is a part of us. We gain awareness of the exact na... NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS We live in an extraordinary time. Our thinking styles are severing us from our families, our religio... FERNANDO FLORES Our landscapes connect us to our history; they are the source of our character as a peopl, as well a... ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. Either we control our thoughts and emotions, or our thoughts and emotions will take hold of us. SHELLY KAY WALDE And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must ... THOMAS JEFFERSON When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our... DALE CARNEGIE Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cann... JACK KORNFIELD We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with others; and along those fibers,... HERMAN MELVILLE What we notice is what resonates with our inner perspective. We tend to
overlook what does not conne... GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT Oscar always said that books are truly our best friends. He said that they never think poorly of us ... ERICA SEHYUN SONG I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We're all colleagues. We're all in the same school district. What effects them effects us all. We ju... JEFF HAMILTON For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will ... WILLIAM AMES Everyday choices that can be made by us or someone else can totally change our life story. DOUG HERMAN No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one ... MARTHA BECK Let us do our best whilst we live for another tomorrow is coming when whilst we are long gone, anoth... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency ... JOHN R.W. STOTT Our conduct has a direct influence on how people think about the gospel. The world doesn't judge us ... CAROLYN MAHANEY Everyone has a story. It is what defines us. Our stories continue to change as we evolve in-and-out ... BRANDON GARIC NOTCH To prevent becoming overwhelmed by the world around us, we must, as the ancients practiced, learn ho... RYAN HOLIDAY As Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen point out in their book Thanks for the Feedback, we judge ourselves... CHRISTINE PORATH Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel les... TIM O'BRIEN Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes th... OCTAVIO PAZ We must be models for our children. We must treat people well on every level. We can no longer compl... JODI AMAN Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar b... WILLA CATHER Consciousness is a transformational dynamic force which transforms us by changing our imaginations a... DEBASISH MRIDHA The impulse of the play is to alert us, in the face of increasing religious and political polarizati... ELIZABETH BRADLEY We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. EARL NIGHTINGALE We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. EARL NIGHTINGALE Our thoughts shape us. We become our obsessions. Our thoughts can enslave us or save us. KILROY J. OLDSTER Sometimes, we must face our fears and our enemies on their ground, a place where they appear stronge... IDOWU KOYENIKAN Our own brand labels have picked up. DOUG WALLACE [He urged the Board to be more accountable for the failure and noted that the] state's labels affect... JACK HALL We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us ... CARL SAGAN We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solv... CHRISTINE GREGOIRE Recounting the narrative of our personal story in a methodical and chronological manner helps us see... KILROY J. OLDSTER We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob... WILLIAM BOOTH Those of us in law enforcement must redouble our efforts to resist bias and prejudice. We must bette... JAMES COMEY We are nothing without them, our scars and our blemishes. Take away our delusional smiles if you mus... SHRUTI UPADHAYA Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us... MARK PAGEL When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our... DALE CARNEGIE Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits ... DORIS LESSING The events that happen in our lives make us who we are ,we can either give in to them and let them w... GARY F EVANS... We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of opt... ALBERT EINSTEIN I mean that the reason God seems to act in ways that make no sense to us is that our perceptions are... TESSA AFSHAR Reject the religious labels and accept the only label that matters “Born Again JOHN M SHEEHAN It expresses our concern that, over time, the labels became cluttered with a lot of information that... DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us. WILLIAM HAZLITT We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a ... ABBI JACOBSON The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances... MARTHA WASHINGTON Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the b... PAUL AUSTER The value judgments we make determine our actions, and upon their validity rests our mental health a... ERICH FROMM Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room,... OLIVER DEMILLE We have been trained to broadcast our successes and hide our failures. But the truth is this: our fa... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passi... GEORGE A. SMITH Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making u... MARTHA BECK It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgiv... HENRY B. EYRING We must critically analyze risk factors and causes of the problem, ... We must introduce and evaluat... DAVID SATCHER Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlar... RALPH WALDO EMERSON The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. Th... JONATHAN STROUD Sometimes we find ourselves distracted from our central goal by other desires. We get overwhelmed by... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA . . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves... AUDRE LORDE We are, all of us, calling and calling across the incalculable gulfs which separate us even from our... DAVID GAYSON Our sense of identity either drives us forward, or holds us back. BRANDON A. TREAN We each have our own language. Our own way of thinking, of talking to ourselves, of making sens... HOLLY SMALE America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond ... GEORGE W. BUSH We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own... BILL MOYERS Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label... CRISS JAMI Whether it's by helping us search for health-related information, connecting us with doctors thr... DEAN ORNISH A name is a label, and as soon as there is a label, the ideas disappear and out comes label-worship ... RICHARD BACH We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to ... ANGELINA JOLIE Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity ... THICH NHAT HANH Where I live, many children are out of school because of diseases they catch from their drinking wat... DOLLY AKHTER We create our own destiny with our choices and decisions. We can base these
decisions upon the aware... GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT The entire journey of life is lived with energy and we use energy in all that we do from dawn to dus... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
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Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. MICHAEL J. FOX On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan... MICHAEL J. FOX There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided t... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The rumor mill will always grind the grain of misinformation into the flour of untruth and the peopl... J. MICHAEL BREWER I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look a... MICHAEL J. FOX The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time,... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children--mothers an... MICHAEL J. FOX Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully ... MICHAEL J. BEHE The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecula... MICHAEL J. BEHE Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - sc... MICHAEL J. BEHE The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or... MICHAEL J. BEHE Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of ... MICHAEL J. BEHE There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I reall... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had... MICHAEL J. FOX Everyone stared in shock at the pool of white robes and the bright-red blood that began to stain the... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN First and foremost, the chicken was flooded with bad omens in the same overwhelming manner that Suri... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I hav... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has el... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Well, do you still make that marvelous wine? The pale red one, with a hint of nuts? I’ve boasted a... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Do you see the butterfly?” Suri grinned with enthusiasm. “Yes, I see it, but—” �... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN How are you speaking?” Gryndal asked. “With my mouth,” she said. “Does everyone play th... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Remember, it’s easier to believe an outlandish lie confirming what you suspect than the most obvio... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN What length will a mother go to on behalf of her child? How long is time? What is the depth of love?... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Strange game, this stating the obvious,” Suri said, shaking her head. She got up and joined Minna ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN