Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality. "
Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.
. . . quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.
I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy seems to be a part of an unconditional wish to live, not holding back because life may not meet our preferences and expectations. Joy seems to be a function of the willingness to accept the whole, and to show up to meet with whatever is there. It has a kind of invincibility that attachment to any particular outcome would deny us.
SEO is not synonymous to JUNK E-MAIL.
Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence. Consequently, even if something beneficial fortuitously entered their lives they immediately treated it as temporary. By the time they were teenagers they were already accustomed to a discontinuous lifestyle marked by constant threats of abandonment and the lack of any emotional stability. Unfortunately, "accustomed to" here is really synonymous with "damaged by.
Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.
The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.
Art is only art if it is synonymous with living
Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.
Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.
Focus on your customers and make that restaurant synonymous to where you are in terms of area.
We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.
Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.
I've always found that beauty and confidence are synonymous. If you feel confident, that's what people see.
I think when someone blindly projects and it's showing up in the form of envy or hate - and I actually think they're synonymous - that's when I feel the most afraid and disconnected and vulnerable. Like whenever I don't feel safe in my own hands, in terms of my not being tender or merciful with myself, or when we're treating each other that way.
The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific worker. For discovery and inquiry are synonymous as an occupation. Science is a pursuit, not a coming into possession of the immutable; new theories as points of view are more prized than discoveries that quantitatively increase the store on hand.
Unity and victory are synonymous.
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.