The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.
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The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.
Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.
Please pray with me for everyone in Sri Lanka and the Philippines as I begin my trip.
Commit to Excellence. Become massively innovative and wear your passion on your sleeve. They might call you different or weird or even crazy. But please remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.
Please raise your children with love and non-judgement. Tell them everyone has the right to love who they want to love. It shouldn’t threaten you or who you are.
Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years.
God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.
I made you, dear, and all I make is perfect. Please come close, for I desire you.
You were born awesome. Please don't die average.
The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.
Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.
I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their national origin - where every citizen is free to think and speak as he pleases and write and worship as he pleases - and where every citizen is free to vote as he pleases, without instructions from anyone, his employer, the union leader or his clergyman.
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.
If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.
All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.
If they want to come out and watch me paint or dig potatoes or mend fences, I don't care. I don't do interviews not because I have anything to hide, but when you retire, the word has a meaning to me. It's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work. You develop an attitude where you can do what you please.
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.
Glad tidings to the one who leaves the world before it leaves him, prepares for his grave before he enters it, and pleases his Lord before he meets Him.
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