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Related Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ... CRAIG GROESCHEL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Love is the basic need of human nature, for without it, life is disrupted emotionally, mentally, spi... KARL MENNINGER, DR. How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS When we read books or acquire information about personal development even when we are mentally, emot... JACINTA MPALYENKANA The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS The best gift you can give your children is to keep yourself emotionally, physically, spiritually an... IBEN DISSING SANDAHL Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM We are what we eat — not only physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. DEREK RYDALL Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI You have to prepare physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually to conquer any mountain. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w... ANTHONY LICCIONE The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... ANTHONY LICCIONE Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER It's taken us a while to learn what our roles are. But we really understand our roles as individuals... LLOYD CHURCH She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Freewill. Some have called it the greatest gift bestowed on humanity. It is our ability t... SHERRILYN KENYON You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Perception of a self is not simply about actuality. Human beings’ identities are self-generating a... KILROY J. OLDSTER A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here? ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man... VANESSA FERLITO You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Feeling at home with ourselves and being able to create a spirit of place that nourishes us physical... ALEXANDRA STODDARD As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and sear... AVIJEET DAS (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love. RAQUEL CEPEDA Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly af... TONY CAMPOLO Actions as a result of hatred give us a temporary satisfaction. But,It is better if we can be patien... NISHI DE SILVA It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND It is our ultimate purpose to continually evolve as a species both physically and emotionally, as ch... KAT LAHR The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are livin... F. A. WICKETT The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living... F. A. WICKETT It's nice to have things to look forward to. STEPHEN CHBOSKY You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Those of us in law enforcement must redouble our efforts to resist bias and prejudice. We must bette... JAMES COMEY There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, h... CRISS JAMI The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single... WALTER F. MONDALE She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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