Quotes About Engagement

If your head is constantly stuck in a book, you're going to miss a lot.

You, Wells, are what we in the force like to call a shitkicker. If there's any shit around, I always seem to find you in the middle, kicking it.

Peça a minha mão em casamento, Luke. Luke, peça a minha mão em casamento. Luke, eu sou o seu pai... Ah, não, espere...

I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back.

Tell me a story then...keep me occupied. A story?...What makes you think I can tell a story? Insight, said the king, Go on.

Costis, what do you think you are doing? Sparring, Your Majesty. Most people cross swords before they spar and they say something introductory like 'Begin!' before they swing.

Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

When you're out She advised, try to appear captivated.

Codependency is normal behavior, plus. There are times we do too much, care too much, feel too little, or overly engage. We forget where the other person's responsibilities begin and our responsibilities stop. Or we get busy and have so much to do that we neglect ourselves.

At least we know we're alive if we're reacting. At least we've got something to do if we're obsessing or controlling. For

The best way to get past something was usually to simply do something else, right?

She led him into the family room and introduced him to Alice and Jeremy. Sensing Tommy's eyes on her and

We believe that all those who are served should also spend time serving.

Ain't necessarily 'bout bein' the 'right one' so much as it is bein' the one that's there an' willin'.

Are you lishening, my pretty vermin, are you lishening?

Life is quite simple: you only get out of it what you put in.

After the prescribed length of time and number of meals consumed and digested in unison, they felt they had sufficient community of interests to marry.

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.

When we see love as the will to nurture one's own or another's spiritual growth, revealed through acts of care, respect, knowing, and assuming responsibility, the foundation of all love in our life is the same. There is no special love exclusively reserved for romantic partners. Genuine love is the foundation of our engagement with ourselves, with family, with friends, with partners, with everyone we choose to love.

As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another's voices, in recognizing one another's presence.

Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.

When everyone in the classroom, teacher and students, recognizes that they are responsible for creating a learning community together, learning is at its most meaningful and useful.

Students who excel in active listening also contribute much to the formation of community. This is also true of students who may not speak often but when they speak (sometimes only when reading required writing) the significance of what they have to say far exceeds those of other students who may always openly discuss ideas. And of course there are times when an active silence, one that includes pausing to think before one speaks, adds much to classroom dynamics.