Quotes of: Makes-us-stronger Keyword

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

Andy Rooney

Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.

Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

If we lived close to nature in an agricultural society, the seasons as metaphor and fact would continually frame our lives. But the master metaphor of our era does not come from agriculture - it comes from manufacturing. We do not believe that we 'gr...

Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.

Party of One: The Loners' Manifesto

I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.

Neil Gaiman

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

John Henry Newman

As much as we complain about it, though, there's part of us that is drawn to a hurried life. It makes us feel important. It keeps the adrenaline pumping. It means I don't have to look too closely at my heart or life. It keeps us from feeling our lone...

John Ortberg

My best writing surfaces out of the need to rebel, the desire to end emotional chaos and the importance I place on embracing that independent streak inside us all that makes us want to break free of limits put on us by those who are prisoners of thei...

Carla H. Krueger

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of ...

George Muller

May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us.

Cory Booker

Shinzaemon Shimada: No mercy! There's no samurai code or fair play in battle! No sword? Use a stick. No stick? Use a rock. No rock? Use your fists and feet! Lose your life, but make the enemy pay!

13 Assassins

What makes us love a character is a character that tries.

Annette Bening

What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?

Cease and Desist

A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.

The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success

A confident decision makes a lasting goal.

Dragonflame: Tap Into Your Reservoir of Power Using Talismans, Manifestation, and Visualization

A brick could be used to make music. But why not use something more humane, like your armpit.


Brick

A blanket could be used to not only make promises, but fulfill them too. They're so soft and warm, how could they not be used in this manner?


Brick

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

Killosophy

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

Something Blue

Lust, pure gorgeous lust: the sacred energy that elevates us, and makes us feel so special.

Naked and Sexual

Celebrity mentality sometimes misguides us to make wrong choices. That’s why T.V screens sometimes lie to us!

Leaders' Watchwords