Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
My body, thus, and all my good besides, And all my merits gained and to be gained, I give them all away withholding nothing To bring about the benefit of beings.
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.
Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick up your signals if you're dwelling in those spaces within yourself.
Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference. In a way, if someone says this didn't feel exactly right, I don't care. But that is not okay to do in academia - it's not about feeling. You want to establish a pretty solid case. So did this allow me to express things differently? Absolutely. Another thing I've been thinking about as an academic: our writing style is expository, and in fiction, withholding information matters quite a bit. Withholding things in academia - there's no place for that!
Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.
That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.
Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson's reasons for the destruction of the tapes for 'Smile. '
I have never regretted erring on the side of withholding information.
Withholding a decision is a decision.
Give cheerfully. If we're not cheerful, the problem is our heart, and the solution is redirecting our heart, not withholding our giving.
Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.
You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.
Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern.
Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.
Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.
Pride is the switch that turns off priesthood power. Humility is a switch that turns it on. . . . Some suppose that humility is about beating ourselves up. Humility does not mean convincing ourselves that we are worthless, meaningless, or of little value. Nor does it mean denying or withholding the talents God has given us. We don't discover humility by thinking less of ourselves; we discover humility by thinking less about ourselves. It comes as we go about our work with an attitude of serving God and our fellowman.
