Quotes About Embrace

In the desperation of the oncoming abyss, one may desire hope for its avoidance of reality; but hopelessness embraces the reality, recognizing that commitment to liberative principles is what defines our very humanity.

Hay que vivir! Y él me enseñó a vivir, él nos enseñó a vivir, a sentir la vida, a sentir el sentido de la vida, a sumergirnos en el alma de la montaña, en el alma del lago, en el alma del pueblo de la aldea, a perdernos en ellas para quedar en ellas.

en el fondo del abismo se encuentran la desesperación sentimental y volitiva y el escepticismo ra cional frente a frente, y se abrazan como hermanos. Y

No, no es que me miró, es que me envolvió en su mirada; y no es que creí en Dios, sino que me creí un dios

It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.

I saw the significance of this pattern immediately. The men all had individual opinions. The feminists all had the same opinion. The men embraced individualism. The feminists embraced collectivism.

For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care.

Step number one for changing the entire world is falling in love with it as it already is. The same is true for changing yourself.

Second chancers must find the party. We must be the party. We must create opportunities to celebrate and become the proverbial hostess with the mostest.

All I have is right now. I have all that I want, and no one can promise me I'll have it forever no matter what I do, so I'm going to live it, love it, treasure it, for every second I can, and whatever comes next I'm prepared for it.

I know too many people who muck around in the haze of being near God but never really embracing the new, wonderful, incredible, blessed life that God has for them. We have all lived in the haze from time to time. I know I have. This is the essence of our mess. And the challenge is to invite Jesus into the midst of your mess. Jesus died for your salvation in the afterlife, and you have a place in heaven for all of eternity. But Jesus also died for your freedom now.

And so must learn to love with our mouths and voices, as well as with our eyes, flesh, heart, brains, and with everything we have, right down to our toenails. There is not anything about us that cannot love, and that is not called to love, and that is not destined to be turned, conformed, and reduced to pure love. It ...is the priceless deposit left by the burning away of selfishness.

Desire is powerful. As the Buddhist teacher Mark Epstein writes, "Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully." 2

Sometimes it's easy to walk by because we know we can't change someone's whole life in a single afternoon. But what we fail to realize it that simple kindness can go a long way toward encouraging someone who is stuck in a desolate place.

if one is to confer successfully with foreigners, it is essential to know their ways of thinking and be able to put oneself in their place.

She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.

LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.

Whenever I let him in he would halt on the threshold drawing the whole of his luminous life up into his smile.

Keep me safe, keep me from harm, keep me in your loving arms.

Help others for all the times that you have been ignored. Be kind to others, for all the times that you have been scorned.

Above all, be compassionate. This is a stand against all evil and it opens your spirit.

Reposes, i jo reposo en tu, i et penso tendrament, i et veig, i et tinc.

La vida pasa volando. Y si encuentras el amor, luchas por él.

He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty minutes ago, that the stain was fine. He had only seen it for a moment, but he was already used to it. It was good. It somehow allowed them to have more.