You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.
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You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.
I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.
I feel that anything is possible in a poem.
I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!
The best way to experience power (or anything) is to give it away. Make someone else powerful and you become twice as powerful as you were before. Make someone else loved and you become twice as loved. Make someone else feel good and you feel twice as good. It doesn't get any better than this. And it's all so...simple.
The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home amongst compatriots
Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
When I'm riding my bicycle I feel like a Buddhist who is happy just to enjoy his mundane existence
To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to _x000D_ deny their feelings.
If, in your relationship with the Lord, you do not feel that He loves you tenderly, you are missing something, you still have not understood what grace is, you have not yet received grace which is this closeness.
Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed out inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure.
A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.
Rejoice in the prosperity of others. When you feel contemptuous, or even a twinge of jealousy, toward the accomplishments or life-styles of others, you are harboring negativity where love must reside.
I know you feel worn and tired. I know you're tired of failing. Rest, but don't stop. You can do this. You got this. _x000D_ Not because you're strong, but because He's your strength.
And I don't think we should be continuing to propagate the idea that famous people are magical or special because it makes people feel like their lives ain't no good.
We must never pretend appreciation, but if we feel it, then we must express it
If you're not sure how you feel about same-sex marriage, go and meet some of the families and see what they're looking for. Once you take it out of the caricature of what gay people are and what gay marriage is, and put it in the reality of family and what these folks are fighting for, it's really amazing.
If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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