Quotes of: Gifts Keyword

Having bad experiences sometimes helps; it makes it clearer what it is you should be doing. I know that sounds very Pollyannaish but it’s true. People who have had only good experiences aren’t very interesting. They may be content, and happy afte...

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

The reason why the world is a difficult place to live in, is due to the fact that people are not interested in people. Nobody is truly interested in anybody; they are only interested in the parts that they think will be pleasurable and comfortable fo...

C. JoyBell C.

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent exis...

The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas

AVA God you are a delight you have delivered what I like heaven delivers a gift with lips heaven delivers a gift with hips God you delivered what I like oh God you are in the spotlight

Contemporary Passion: I Nearly Loved Her Perfectly

Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It is a tragic fact that parents beat their children in order to escape the emotions from how they were treated by their own...

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce and then to abandon them, until he was at last able to experience how he himself had repeatedly been abandoned by his mother.

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing.

Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer

Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today’s world, that’s pretty extraordinary.

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

You’ll also wonder how you can feel so brave and so afraid at the same time.

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Every system of the body is interdependent with every other system. In truth, there is no separating them, any more than you can separate your body and psyche.

The Gift of Healing Herbs: Plant Medicines and Home Remedies for a Vibrantly Healthy Life

Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they ...

The Gift of Asher Lev

Sometimes we assume that the new person in our life is better for us because they are totally different from the last person we dated. Only later do we see that we have chosen a different version of the same thing and they both leave us unsatisfied.

The Gift of Past Relationships

Do not ignore you gift. Your gift is the thing you do the absolute BEST with the LEAST amount of effort."~Steve Harvey

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment

There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.

King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography

It felt real, seeing his friend like that. It was like a gift. He wasn’t into spiritual bullshit, but damn. "Damn. That Mouse had become his friend was a gift, but a curse as well. If he’d left that whole situation alone, would Mouse — would Ja...

Return to Poughkeepsie

Our gifts are very pleasant to Him. He loves to see us lay our time, our talents, our substance on the altar not for the value of what we give, but for the sake of the motive from which the gift springs.

Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love?

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are