Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are.
Everything has the potential to be extraordinary, whether an old photograph, a book or a life. If you find it ordinary, you simply need to take a closer look.
I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about - get a bit closer. I don't want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone's smell.
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
I have a bad reputation because I play evil from the outside but if you get closer I hide heaven inside me❤ ❤
Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear so don't look and they'll stay farther away than you expect they would.
How strange is man that when he is afraid of something he runs away from it, but when he is afraid of Allah, he gets closer to Him.
The flowers' beauty drew her closer to them like a magnetic force. She felt compelled to walk a little faster.
Don't come closer to me at any time without make-up. I may slap and make you feel the taste of death.
I don't usually get to play fathers or grandfathers or uncles. Now that I'm older, maybe I can play people closer to myself. I'd like that.
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.
I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.
Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.
We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
The truth is, I'd like to be closer to my kids. I'd like to share more with them. But that's not what this time in their lives is about. This is their time to separate, to self-direct, to become independent.
As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.
The quickest way to be a little bit happier and more engaged in your job is to spend some time thinking about developing closer friendships.
