Quotes of: Well-being Keyword

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

Bobby McFerrin

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

Julia Sweeney

American society is still puritanical.

Nick Nolte

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

Sienna Miller

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

Vinessa Shaw

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

Piper Perabo

Well, I love acting, and I love acting quick.

Ron Perlman

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Austin O'Malley

I like musicals that look more like plays.

Alex Timbers

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

James A. Baldwin

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Will Rogers

The core predicament of medicine - the thing that makes being a patient so wrenching, being a doctor so difficult, and being a part of society that pays the bills they run up so vexing - is uncertainty. With all that we know nowadays about people and...

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Maybe the real issue here is that we were not created to do life by ourselves. We were not given a sentence of solitary confinement and placed in a world of isolation, but from the moment we entered this human experience, it was clear there was a wor...

How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human

Katherine,” he says when we finish. We’re breathing each other’s air and lying side by side, our noses almost touching. “Mick,” I say. “I love your name. It suits you perfectly. Katherine. Katherine. Katherine and Mick.” And when he say...

Beautiful Malice

It would be a great mistake to suppose that it is sufficient not to become personal yourself. For by showing a man quite quietly that he is wrong, and that what he says and thinks is incorrect — a process which occurs in every dialectical victory �...

The Art of Always Being Right

There are times when we can be so annoyed at each other, Elliot, and we yell at each other. But when push comes to shove, we let it go, and we're back to our normal selves, because being unhappy is part of being happy. When two people get married, th...

All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps

One needn't identify as a feminist to participate in the redemptive movement of God for women in the world, The gospel is more than enough. Of course it is! But as long as I know how important maternal health is to Haiti's future, and as long as I kn...

Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women

To think of our prayers as just ‘causes’ would suggest that the whole importance of petitionary prayer lay in the achievement of the thing asked for. But really, for our spiritual life as a whole, the ‘being taken into account,’ or ‘conside...

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

I watched her with the crab as she ignored all my admonitions that the poor crab just needed to be set free if he was to have any chance of surviving. And God showed up there on that beach to teach me a lesson. Nothing survives when it's being smothe...

Sparkly Green Earrings: Catching the Light at Every Turn

No matter where you are right now, no matter far along you are on your own path, don't wait to "have it all" to celebrate. You're never going to figure it all out. Make being happy your business, all along the way. Life can't be one long, tough haul,...

A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life

But now, our daily monkeyshines are such, our preoccupations are so low, our language has be come so debased, the words so blunted and damaged, we've said such stupid and dull things, the the higher beings hear only babbling and grunting and TV comme...

Saul Bellow