Couples who have been together for a long time say the key to staying together is to work as a team toward the greater good, tolerating some tough (even tragic) times to grow together and work toward a mature kind of union.
What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.
Not a day has gone by that I have not communicated with my Father in Heaven through prayer. It is a relationship I cherish-one I would literally be lost without. If you do not now have such a relationship with your Father in Heaven, I urge you to work toward that goal. As you do so, you will be entitled to His inspiration and guidance in your life.
I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.
I'm overwhelmed with sadness for everything that was lost, and filled with anger toward the people who took it away. My people-or at least, my old people. I don't know who I am anymore, or where I belong. That's not totally true. . . I know I belong with Alex.
I went with my very being toward language.
Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a liability. But the more anonymously we engage with others, the less we experience the human repercussions of what we say and do. By resisting the temptation to engage from the apparent safety of anonymity, we remain accountable and present - and are much more likely to bring our humanity with us into the digital realm
It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination. . . . Of what use are speech sounds and tools without an inspiration toward perfectibility, without a sense that we can create or construct a history.
His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefore withering attitude toward all those who are still struggling in the old activist political ways. . . while he, with the help of psychedelic chemicals, is exploring the infinite regions of human consciousness.
To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work.
We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up.
When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.
I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda.
If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close, and the brush goes to it quickly if you don't think.
Female leaders are more oriented toward real and long-lasting results of their policies.
What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed.
There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
Each cent you apply toward diminishing your debt replenishes you.