Quotes About Embrace

I can dig my claws into the rim of a building's crown and spread my arms and feel the buffets and gouts of boisterous air and I can close my eyes and remember, for a moment, what it is to fly.

How can you create a habit that supports the change you're trying to make? There are only two things to think about: (1) The habit needs to advance the mission, as did Pagonis's stand-up meetings. (2) The habit needs to be relatively easy to embrace. If it's too hard, then it creates its own independent change problem. For

When change happens, it tends to follow a pattern. We've got to stop ignoring that pattern and start embracing it.

He who binds to himself a Joy Doth the wingèd life destroy; But he who kisses the Joy as it flies Lives in Eternity's sunrise.

I'm not running away. But this is one corner of one country on one continent on one planet that's a corner of a galaxy that's a corner of a universe that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and destroying and never remaining the same for a single millisecond, and there is so much, so much, to see, Amy. Because it goes so fast. I'm not running away from things, I am running to them. Before they flare and fade forever.

Don't you think we shall all be kinder to one another? I hope one's class will matter less and one's convictions more. I hope we might be more inclined to pardon one another for our errors with both.

a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. . . We must see all scars as beauty... Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived. In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you... You must hear them the way we have agreed to see scars now. Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive.

exciting as miracles are, they fail to satisfy our hungry hearts unless we embrace them for what they are—invitations to see the personality and nature of Jesus in action.

My entire state of being's changed because I'v become my sexuality: female, straight, wanting to love men, be fucked. Is there a way of living with this like a gay person, proudly? (p. 186)

You've been handed a chance in life, and I want you to grab it with both hands and not look back.

It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.

I mean, if all we are is bundles of energy... what is a 'hug' anyway?... and how can we ever really touch each other?

That overachieving, ambitious, nobody-can-hold-me-down attitude I had, which came from a place of anger and aggression, has transformed into feeling like I will take on the world, but I will do it with an embrace, rather than with my dukes up.

Here I am, there he is, connected by sky.

She felt her fear unspooling like a tight fist opening. It was as if she'd been standing on a precipice and suddenly tipped forward. There was no point in feeling afraid. She was already falling, falling through the air, and her future, whatever it held, was rushing up to meet her.

So we come upon the radical idea that happiness is not about how many good times we've had and bummers we haven't had, but from being willing to greet life as it occurs, to meet it and respond in its gush and flow. We don't attach ourselves to the contents of life, but we celebrate the very process of being alive.

They embraced and parted. They never saw each other again.

It was possible to love life, without loving your life.

Muistatko? Meteori suhahti terävänä kohden metsäämme, en pelännyt kätesi oli ympärilläni Ilma jäähtyi, eläimet kuolivat, painauduin lähemmäs sinua ja olin onnellinen

Across the gateway of my heart I wrote, "No thoroughfare." But love came laughing by and cried, "I enter everywhere." Herbert Shipman

When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart...

It was all there. I wanted to live in this land. I had to live there, and master the language.

James and Joseph held each other by the hand

Hands are for other human hands to hold.