C. S. Lewis Quotes
An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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I'm typically single. I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
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I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.
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My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.
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He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
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Suffering turns men towards their creator.
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Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
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The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
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An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]
