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childhood approval adults
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. C. S. Lewis
childhood disease literature
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. Jane Yolen
childhood fundamentals conditions
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. Jane Smiley
childhood secret fatherhood
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! Max Muller
childhood facts matter
As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself. Michael Gruber
childhood
I had a relatively tumultuous childhood. Jesse Metcalfe
childhood germs excess
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem. Gaston Bachelard
childhood lasts
Childhood lasts all through life. Gaston Bachelard
childhood world lasts
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world. Gaston Bachelard
freedom political mind
Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries. Ayn Rand
freedom rights political
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). Ayn Rand
freedom music
The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic. Kate Bush
freedom sacrifice rights
It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for. Clarence Day
freedom democracy reason
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others. Blaise Pascal
freedom atheism superstitions
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition. Edmund Burke
freedom sacrifice men
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. Bruce Barton
freedom rights discovery
What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom? Edward Abbey
freedom self support
The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
happiness
realizes that happiness doesn't come from the outside. Ricky Williams
happiness
A day it was when I could bearTo think, and think, and think again;With so much happiness to spare,I could not feel a pain. William Wordsworth
happiness super
Tell you what, if they keep doing that all year, I'll be super happy. Bronson Arroyo
happiness
I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.' Tyler Cowen
happiness lying men
Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls. Antisthenes
happiness giving-up would-be
You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies. Augusten Burroughs
happiness brother artist
Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers-show me yours-show me that it is possible-show me your achievement-and the knowledge will give me the courage for mine. Mallory (the young artist) to Roark in "The Fountainhead" Ayn Rand
happiness enemy wish
Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more. Bryant H. McGill
happiness play perspective
Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with. Alain de Botton
intensely interested visitors
As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am. Kerry Greenwood
intensely involved mean months quiet seems
Months may go by when we don't have much contact, and it seems we aren't as intensely involved with the district. Just because it's quiet doesn't mean we're not doing anything. David Maroney
intense los realized until work
I don't think any of us realized how much work and how intense of a show it would be until we got into preproduction here in Los Angeles, Nikki Sixx
intense ceo founders
You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders. Sam Altman
intense reaction surprise surprised
The only surprise is that the administration is surprised by the intense reaction of the American people. Edward Kennedy
intensely minutes move paragraph sit until
There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph and give up again. On other days I get intensely - focused on the process, sit down at 8 A.M. and won't get up until 8 P.M. Rick Riordan
intensely iraq war
I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things. Phil Klay
joys pains pass utter
Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life. Granth Sahib
joy desire pilgrim
All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings. C. S. Lewis
joy poor
The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is. Greg Boyle
joy honor pathways
Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy. Charles Spurgeon
joy fine eliminating
There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous. Elbert Hubbard
joyfully lawn start wearing weeping
We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it. Meg Stuart
joy despair path
The path to joy leads through despair. Alexander Lowen
joy no-fear fear-of-death
I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience. Don Piper
joy ordinary ecstasy
I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me. Andrew Solomon
life motivational inspiration
Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street. Ben Nicholas
life motivational perseverance
You just can't beat the person who never gives up. Babe Ruth
life and-love moments
Live life messy and love every moment of it. Ashley Smith
life hate love-is
If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love. Baruch Spinoza
life dream killers
Isolation is a dream killer. Barbara Sher
life believe forever
I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day. Barbara Sher
life responsibility bewildered
I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it. Arthur Miller
life lying ridiculous
I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. Arthur Miller
life beautiful writing
Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it. Arthur Adamov
meaningful playing
This is pretty special. It's exciting, just because you know you're playing meaningful games. Carlos Delgado
meaningful believe reality
If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality. Benjamin Disraeli
meaningful jesus struggle
It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just. Jesus does not promise that it will be an easy way to live life and His own life certainly points in a hard direction; but it does promise that we will be "satisfied" (not stuffed; but satisfied). He promises that by giving life we will find life - full, meaningful life as God meant it. Cesar Chavez
meaningful democracies-have two
There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of the wisdom of crowds, but now big sources of special interest money are able to prevent the passage of almost any meaningful reform that's aimed at the public interest. Al Gore
meaningful tasks meaningful-relationship
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds. bell hooks
meaningful love-is attachment
One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency. Brian Weiss
meaningful spiritual creativity
Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path. Brene Brown
meaningful spiritual people
Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individual’s world by finding out at least one thing that is meaningful to his or her life and exchange at lest one genuine feeling. Tuning in to others is a circular flow: you send yourself out toward people; you receive them as they respond to you. Deepak Chopra
meaningful imperfection pages
A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message. Drew Barrymore