Richard Paul Evans Quotes
Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
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And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.
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The kids get a vote. That's very important when it comes to raising kids. And always keep the bigger picture in mind.
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There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.
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Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
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We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace.
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Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.
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We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
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[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.
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The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-cooperation between the forces of darkness and those of light.
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Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.
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Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.
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Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.
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Love is not always destructive.
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Jesus taught that the age he lived in was controlled by forces of evil but that God would soon intervene to destroy everything and everyone opposed to him. God would then bring in a good, utopian kingdom on earth, where there would be no more pain and suffering. Jesus himself would be the ruler of this kingdom, with his twelve disciples serving under him. And all this was to happen very soon—within his own generation. This
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The history of this world was divided into two phases: the present age, which was controlled by the forces of evil, and the age to come, in which God would rule supreme.
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The special forces are also doing a big job ... so we will be talking about different aspects of the relationship during my visit.
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With the type of actor I am, which includes really diving into a role and making it as real as possible, there's nothing better than working in a real environment on location. It forces you to feel what the character's feeling, and it allows you to live in the space of the character.
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As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature.
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I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.
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Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.
