Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.
When a mother asked her small child how he fell out of bed, he answered, "Because I wasn't in far enough. " Let me just say in passing that it has been my experience that most people who fall out of the Church do so because they were not in far enough.
But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked. “Make me”, I replied. “Beg pardon?” “Make me”, I repeated. Her eyes widened like saucers. “You mean like incest?” she asked. “Don’t give me your family problems, Jen. I have enough of my own. ” “Like what, Oliver?” she asked, “like just what is it he makes you do?” “The ‘right things’”, I said. “What’s wrong with the ‘right things’?” she asked, delighting in the apparent paradox.
Anyone can like their job. . . To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.
I'd moved to L. A. with my mother when I was 17 or 18. She loved show business and I was young enough that I had no idea what I wanted to do.
You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.
Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.
When I look at American history and I look at what history means to me, I look at it as if it were a string of stories. And if it's told well enough and in a way that's charming and warm and with wit and humor, then it takes a bit of the edge off of it. You can still tell the truth, but if you tell it very sweetly and very warmly, it makes it go down a bit easier.
Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is. . . is it not yet enough?
Liberty is not enough.
The gospel beckons our sin-sick souls to simple trust in Christ, the only One who is truly radical enough.
I always tell people, don't worry about the haters, you are not a jackass whisperer. You have to be enough. You have to be your own validation.
Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.
With the Internet there is even more fractioning since we are in echo chambers. With so much propaganda it is hard to calm down enough to listen.
I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.
Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.
Nothing the writer can do is ever enough.
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?
Most women beat themselves up because they think they are not good enough at anything. All of those things just eat at you all the time.
