Quotes of: Fellow-human-beings Keyword

When wisdom arises, our inherent power as a being naturally arises as well, and then we begin to view things differently. We begin to see things based on the truth that we have found inside, not the truth that is imposed by others on us.

A Magician's Visit

Friends are those crazy people who keep coming back, in spite of being exposed to the real you.

Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

I haven’t entirely adjusted to the whole yum, blood, yum aspect of being a vampire. My body wants it, but my head is still like, Ew, that is BLOOD, time to faint.

Never Bite a Boy on the First Date

Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that women act on reflection, too. Women do nothing of the sort. They act on impulse; and, in nine cases out of ten, they are heartily sorry for it afterward.

No Name

Don't ever give up on being the person you choose to be, getting the results you want, and manifesting the dream for your life.

No Limits, Mastering the Mental Egde: The Class They Don't Teach You in School

I feel something familiar about this place. This house…” I dragged out a hand and gestured towards it with my thumb. “I dream about it. I’ve been dreaming about it for years. Being in it.” I had her attention. “With you.

Obsession

Being that 'reason is not antithetical to faith' (Woods) and that Pentecost established the Reality of super-nature (Lewis) and that 'theology matters' (Wimber), then 'empowered evangelicalism' (Nathan) is the natural expression of discipleship." ~R....

Kingdom Come: The Already But Not Yet

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you. Go for that communion, that real communion with your soul, and the discipline of expressing that communion with others. That doesn't come from competition. That comes f...

Letters to a Young Artist

Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things as you struggle to build a decent society that can be nonviolent.

The Long Haul: An Autobiography

How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.

Letters from Edward Thomas to Gordon Bottomley

He had never seen her body so abandoned, so unconscious of all but the desire to be taken and satisfied. She bloomed under his caresses, no longer the girl but the woman already being born.

Little Birds

No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. “No, not rich,” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Love in the Time of Cholera

There is one essential requirement for being close with a dying person: the letting go of self-concern.

A Life Worth Living: A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era

Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.

Life, the Universe and Everything

It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide not to saddle their own children with the chore of preserving them.

Language in Danger: The Loss of Linguistic Diversity and the Threat to Our Future

All of us to one degree or another disconnect from God’s story because we are fundamentally committed to being the author of our own stories.

Landmarks: Turning Points on Your Journey Toward God

Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.

Living Dead Girl

People don't stop being bullies when they grow up. They just dress differently to fool you.

Life Is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally

When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.

The Lake

It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved... [A]ll utterances about the nature of God are nonsens...

Language, Truth, and Logic

He smelled the smells of commerce and listened to the cursing of the sailors, both of which he admired: the former, as it reeked of wealth, and the latter because it combined his two other chief preoccupations, these being theology and anatomy.

Lord of Light