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My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain.
Eric ClaptonRead
I have to ask you to resist, not to comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it.
Andrea DworkinRead
Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.
John C. MaxwellRead
But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.
Marcel ProustRead
We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task.
Chris HayesRead
Rest is so necessary for the health of our minds and bodies, and often so difficult to achieve due to the many demands placed on us. But rest is also essential for our spiritual health, so that we can hear God’s voice and understand what he asks of us.
Pope FrancisRead
The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.
Daisaku IkedaRead
What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it.
Miles DavisRead
We’re all imperfect and we all have needs. The weak usually do not ask for help, so they stay weak. If we recognize that we are imperfect, we will ask for help and we will pray for the guidance necessary to bring positive results to whatever we are doing.
John WoodenRead
How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?
John CarlosRead
Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.
Oprah WinfreyRead
Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me?
Lou HoltzRead
As this New Year begins, ask God to help you tune your life every day to His Word, so you can bring harmony and joy to those around you.
Billy GrahamRead
You must ask for what you really want.
RumiRead
Let us ask the Lord for this grace: that our hearts become free and filled with light, so that we can rejoice as children of God.
Pope FrancisRead
The one who listens attentively to the Word of God and truly prays, always asks the Lord: what is your will for me?
Pope FrancisRead
I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth, and not ruled by it.
Pope FrancisRead
God asks everything of us, yet at the same time he offers everything to us.
Pope FrancisRead
Find the courage and the strength to turn inward and to ask a simple, soaring question. _x000D_ What would LOVE do NOW?
Neale Donald WalschRead
You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that is, passed through you]. Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.
Rainer Maria RilkeRead
They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.
Helmut NewtonRead

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