The stories are very uplifting and spiritual.


Patricia Rushton

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The report was very positive and uplifting.
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Our relevance is not determined by the opinions of people but by the Love of God.
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The stories are very scary and very unsettling.
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It's very uplifting to see the response. People are learning about our history and how to care for t...
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Having the right attitude...brings unlimited success and fulfillment towards your goal in life.
MILAGROSA RIVERA ORMEO
It was very sobering but in a way uplifting,
JEFF CONINE
People describe our show as high energy and dynamic. Our music is very uplifting.
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There are very few really stark black and white stories.
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Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that w...
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The whole experience was uplifting.
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It is positive and uplifting up to the last movement.
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[Patricia Heaton from] Everybody Loves Raymond ... Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania.
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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.
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It wasn't until I witnessed the dark that I truly understood the value of light.
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And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.
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The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eterni...
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She probably had all the time in the world, Therese thought, probably did nothing all day but what s...
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The intimacy and spiritual relationships or connections that one can have with their significant oth...
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Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.
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That was very uplifting. It's nice to get one early. When you get them that early, it put them on th...
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Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, b...
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If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
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Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.
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We had a very deep spiritual connection.
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Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vis...
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My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.
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I have a very strong spiritual connection to the garden.
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We must have song and dance in our lives; we've had it ever since the inception of cinema in Ind...
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I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.
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Why books...audiobooks... stories are created?...Films and Games!?

- The answer, is very ...
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Feed your soul; books, places, people, anything. That helps it grow.
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Endings and beginnings look just the same.
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Making it big ? there are happy stories about that. And there are sad stories.
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The best opportunity for our uplifting is the opportunity to give.
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The best opportunity for our uplifting is the opportunity to give.
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I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we ha...
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We want to be uplifting, ... We want to be visionary and progressive.
TOMMY THOMPSON
Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.
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Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open sp...
STANISLAV GROF
The chakras in your body are as to galaxies on the body of God.
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Our psychological and spiritual vigilance is very important during a time of persecution
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I'm a very spiritual person, and proud of my Mormon roots.
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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalue...
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
HINDU SPIRITUAL
The world is imprisoned in it's own activity, except where actions are performed as worship of God.
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Nobility doesn't lie in surpassing the other man, but in surpassing the previous self.
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If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like the s...
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If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor ...
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I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My d...
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You've got a league with a couple thousand players or so depending on the time of year. Then you...
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They do spiritual music and dancing. One comes out and starts singing gospel; then the others come a...
VAUGHN HUDSPATH
Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
PATRICIA POLACCO
Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
PATRICIA NORRIS
I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're ha...
PATRICIA NORRIS
As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and ...
PATRICIA NORRIS
When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. W...
PATRICIA NEAL
I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
PATRICIA NEAL
Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gatew...
PATRICIA MILLETT
What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom...
PATRICIA MILLETT
I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivi...
PATRICIA MILLETT
I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court withou...
PATRICIA MILLETT
I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and...
PATRICIA MILLETT
While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity wi...
PATRICIA MILLETT
I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of revie...
PATRICIA MILLETT
My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into ...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK
The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK
High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French nobl...
PATRICIA MARX
New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
PATRICIA MARX
I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
PATRICIA MARX
I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I ...
PATRICIA MARX
I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alo...
PATRICIA MARX
Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name ...
PATRICIA MARX
Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.
PATRICIA MARX
For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
PATRICIA MARX
I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and se...
PATRICIA MARX
I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
PATRICIA MARX
Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
PATRICIA MARX
The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.
PATRICIA MARX
It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even fiv...
PATRICIA MARX
Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of ...
PATRICIA MARX
Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists cl...
PATRICIA MARX
'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of char...
PATRICIA MARX
Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's ...
PATRICIA MARX
One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels ...
PATRICIA MARX
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just bec...
PATRICIA MARX
Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, wha...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say,...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN