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Every day, through engagement in the arts, our children learn to open their imagination, to dream just a little bigger and to strive every day to reach those dreams.
We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
My philosophy is to "kill the monster while it's little." The best time to handle a "negative" emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It's much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it's full-blown.
Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.
How strange! You lose a little from you and you cry. And your whole life is wasting and you're laughing
He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of Life He has - by what I call 'good infection'. Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.
To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.
A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.
The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.
One night, I pissed into an empty wine bottle so I could continue watching Monty Python, and suddenly thought 'I've never tasted my own piss,' so I drank a little. It looked just like Orvieto Classico and tasted of nearly nothing
I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar” story is about hope. You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future
Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human
In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. 'Deserves' is not the point. And 'owes' is certainly not the point. The point is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is -- in the right hands, everything that you give, you get.
A great storm puts out a little fire but feeds a strong one. Trials conquer weak faith but grow a strong faith.
Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them...your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world.
Saving Italy is an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy’s vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were courageously working alongside to preserve the irreplaceable best of Italy’s culture. Read it and be proud of those who were on their own front lines of a cruel war.
I think my mum was really very ahead of her time. She wore very little makeup. She really explored the way that she wore clothes in a very honest way. She wore a lot of vintage stuff and mixed it with bespoke men's tailoring and things like that. That was a huge influence on me, seeing a woman in the spotlight carry herself in that kind of way. But mostly, for me, it was just that she was an incredibly honest and sort of natural person.
Put together every little bit of goodness that you have known and you have your being.
Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.
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