But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.
Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.
I might not have faith in many things, but I do have faith in this; that the one who sent me out will allow me to finish the mission.” -Regan
Our knees get dusty from time to time, but when they touch the ground, we must never allow the dust to convince us that our submission in that moment is the acceptance of our defeat for an entire lifetime.
Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that you were far happier not knowing about.
You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings...
words, you see," he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.
But friendship meant you at least planted the seed for them, love meant allowing them the ability to weed their own garden until it was something healthy and thriving, blooming and bright and smelling of heather and tiger lilies.
Sometimes the Lord allows us to go through tough times so we learn to rely upon Him.
Taking advice is fine; by all means, be open-minded, but not to the point of allowing others to obliterate your uniqueness.
Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do the hard work for you.
Who you allow into your life, mind and heart are among the most important decisions you will ever make.
Don't allow others to make you feel small. You came to this world to grow and to explore and touch the miracles and marvels of life.
When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived.
Let's live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows.
Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.
Change is possible if you allow it to happen. Nothing in life is constant; it's always evolving and that's how life happens for me. Through my adversities I can reach new heights.
I've always believed phone calls from kids must be allowed if mothers are to feel welcome in the workplace, as anyone who has worked in my chambers can attest.
The strange word nymphomation, used to denote a complex mathematical procedure where numbers, rather than being added together or multiplied or whatever, were actually allowed to breed with each other to produce new numbers.
The only candidate I'd allow to play my music would be Bigfoot, and unless we're talking about foraging for squirrels, he's notoriously apolitical.
I love social media. I love the connectivity it provides, the creativity it allows, and the breathtaking wealth of information we all have at our fingertips because of it.
