Way Quotes - Page 703

God's way of making separation with children easier was to invent adolescence.

What my daughter does is my own responsibility, the way she represents herself.

Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.

The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.

I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.

Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.

The simplest and bravest way to counter the plight of disheartenment is to move toward what is precious.

The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear.

We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.

If I didn't positive have people influencing my life in a positive way, I don't know where I'd be right now. So if I can do that just in one person's life, it's all worth it to me.

It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

Completing a large or difficult survey can be a very satisfying thing, especially if there have been hurdles or setbacks along the way. In our work, we get to "tick" off jobs quite often, so the sense of completion can also be rewarding.

I think what you study and what you believe in has an influence in the way you live.

I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before.

The effect of the advertising way of thinking on our brains, and how we live on our planet, is very disturbing. It's not a very good thing, and it's not the kind of thing to just make into kind of a "ha-ha."

Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.

Using death to defeat death... wow. No way the devil saw that one coming.

People with a lot of theological study and no prayer life are dangerous... and not in a good way.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

Cuba will find its own way, regardless of what the U.S. wants. This has always been the case, not just since 1959.

Everyone interprets something in a different way, it's channelled through the human mind.

Sharia law is a Malignant law, it's totally based on the interpretation of the Koran and the Hajid, and the way Islam and the profit lived.

It's kinda crazy to say, but the way Jay [Duplass] and I stay afloat, because we don't make particularly commercial fare that makes a lot of money, is that we make things cheaply and we make things small. We would kind of be afraid to go make a $100 million movie because you have to do certain things to it to have it make its money back.

I'm fearful and anxious for my family in ways that I've never been fearful or anxious for myself. I'm completely vulnerable to their pain, both physical and emotional. It's wild. And I wouldn't trade it for anything.