The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.
As long as we are faking it we are just showing the world how to fake it - but they already are! They want to see us get real.
Warped with satisfactions and terrors, woofed with too many ambiguities and too few certainties, life can be lived best not when we have the answers - because we will never have those - but when we know enough to live it right out to the edges, edges sometimes marked by other people, sometimes showing only our own footprints.
When you have an unconditional love of Life, then you love Life just the way it is showing up, right here, right now. This is only possible when you are "seeing the perfection. "
Christ , in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim.
Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.
Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at least strive toward, an equal degree of participation.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Showing Respect Is not Slavery. . . and Must Be Taught
Me not showing any emotion is not the best for me. I've tried that. It kind of bottles up, and then at some point explodes.
Showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth, they sought to deny and disprove the new things which, if they had cared to look for themselves, their own senses would have demonstrated to them.
One thing I do know, you can't change hatred by showing those people that they're wrong about us.
What fun is life without a bit of showing off?
All the great persons of the world, whatever had been their mission in life, proved their greatness by this one quality: endurance. The enduring personality is like a ship that can stand storms and winds under all conditions, the ship that saves itself and others. Such blessed personalities, showing the strength of God have been called the saviors of humanity.
It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.
A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them.
I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.
There's a big difference between showing interest and really taking interest.
They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, "Why don't you show the other stuff?" I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition.
On Masters of Sex, especially in the pilot, everybody was showing up word-perfect, and youre expected to show up word-perfect.