Quotes of: Living-proof Keyword

People who are out of control desperately need to observe your healthy boundaries in-play to learn from your example.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

They say Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one your never had in mind.

And the Mountains Echoed

Friends come into our lives and friends leave our lives. But friends never leave our hearts. And best friends always get to stay in the best places in our hearts.

The Marvelous Journey Home

We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind.

My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu

I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.

The Moment Under the Moment: Stories, a Libretto, Essays, and Sketches

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

The Major Works

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

Moab is my Washpot

Something inside of me won't let me play small

Nyabo (Madam) - Why Are You Here? The Truth about Living in Service, Love, and Personal Power

Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?

Night of the Soul Stealer

She meant you have to live a story for a time.' 'And?' 'And then you can write it, in time. What have you lived?' 'Kind of a personal question for Twitterland.' 'Kind of the perfect question to answer in fiction.

The Novelist

From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

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

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

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

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

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

Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?

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

Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

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

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we call them psychopaths), and there are people who have the capacity but choose not to exercise it.

The Lives of Animals

Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them.

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

Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.

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

Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are.

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