A Quotes
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“As we gaze upon the wonders of creations, we look up towards the heights of a God who is merciful in His ways and magnificent in His deeds. The life of worship always points us upwards.”
“As we get better at understanding how little we know about the body, we begin to realize that the next big frontier in medicine, is energy medicine. It's not the mechanistic part of the joints moving. It's not the chemistry of our body. It's understanding for the first time how energy influences how we feel.”
“As we get close to God, he is going to reveal things in our life that aren't pretty. We'll see the patterns of bitterness, anger, manipulation, and hurt that have cycled in our relationships.”
“As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.”
“As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.”
Source: Conquest of Mind: Take Charge of Your Thoughts & Reshape Your Life Through Meditation
“As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.”
“As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this so that we are able to tell the younger generation about the stories and experiences that have formed us which may be important to subsequent generations if they are to thrive.I worry though, about what might happen to our minds if most of the stories we hear are about greed, war, and atrocity”
Source: How to Stay Sane
“As we get older, the toys get more expensive…” - Chris Geiger”
“As we get older, we like calm more than social drama, a comfy home, a good book, and someone who knows just how we want our tea.”
“As we get older, a lot of societies, education systems and workplaces make us feel that playing is a waste of time. We end up suppressing stupidly brilliant questions for what we think are more serious responsibilities.”
“As we get older, everyday feels longer, and although I know I’ll struggle, I will do my best to never get tired.”
“As we get older, it's important for us to help hand back some of what we've gained as we've grown older. It should be one of your responsibilities - it's almost like being a mentor.”
“As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.”
“As we get older, our fears, in some way, sharpen and become more personal, because we can no longer - let's say take a book like "It" or maybe "Christine," and say these are make-believe fears.”
“As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference.”
“As we get older, things seem less important.”
“As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We're also better at letting things go.”
“As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety.”
“As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.”
“As we get robots becoming more sophisticated, I think we should worry sooner rather than later on how much they could take over, but I think it'll mostly be a positive thing. In terms of deadlines it won't be any worse than nuclear weapons.”
“As we give of our time, talents and resources to tend the needs of the sick, offer food to the hungry and teach the dependent to stand on their own, we enrich ourselves spiritually beyond our ability to comprehend.”
“As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.”
“As we give the gifts of compassion and humility, our lives become demonstrations of the truth of God's Word.”
Source: The Father Heart of God
“As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same priority as our own.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“As we give, we find that sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven, and in the end, we learn that it was no sacrifice at all.”
“As we go back in time, we can revisit unsuspected scenes of the narrative of our life and perceive forgotten details in the rear window of our mind, throwing new light on our instilled certainties and consolidated opinions.”
Source: Stilling our Mind
“As we go deeper and deeper into the world of meditation, we are able to travel along the luminous bands, just like you travel along a highway or road.”
“As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive thoughtlessness . But let us go out with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us.”
Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers
“As we go forward in attempting to control bump drafting in those areas, there's going to be some very subjective calls being made. That's the reason we'd like to get this under way as quickly as possible. ... Hopefully we don't have to make a call. But if we do make a call in the twins, it wouldn't be quite as painful as having to make it in the Daytona 500.”
“As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.”
“As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution.”
“As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.”
“As we go through life, it helps us all if we can view situations positively, with love, compassion, hope and optimism. It raises up the community. It’s a higher vibration. It calls for a world of more peace and love, which is always a good thing.”
Source: How to Live a Magnificent Life: Becoming the Living Expression of Higher Consciousness
“As we go through life our relationship with our own mortality and our inevitable demise increases.”
“As we go through life, we essentially grow a personality. Our personality branches out in many directions to assist us organize our thoughts, feelings, values, ideas, and coping mechanisms. Our exhibited behavior – the way we organize and deal with life – becomes an external representation of our central self.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.”
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“As we go through life, even through very rough waters, a father's instinctive impulse to cling tightly to his wife or to his children may not be the best way to accomplish his objective. Instead, if he will lovingly cling to the Savior and the iron rod of the gospel, his family will want to cling to him and to the Savior.”
“As we go through the flightiness of time, dazed by the inebriety of our mental time voyage, we must hit the brakes, sometimes, and not shy away from questioning ourselves, when we wade through the tanning mist of our memory that embroiders our thoughts or distorts them.
("Uber alle Gipfeln ist Ruh" )”
“As we go within the self, we discover that all the voices of our past lives are still there. As we peel ourselves, which is a process very much like peeling an onion, we discover that there are many selves within the self.”
“As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man.”
“As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.”
“As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding) the speed of light, eventually leading to a sublime, universe wide awakening.”
“As we gradually open that bubble and allow the luminous being inside to come out, your second attention will develop and you'll begin to see, deal with, and become the totality of yourself.”
“As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society in the land of our adoption.”
Source: An autobiography
“As we grow and progress in life, a lot of things and people need to be left behind. Not for malice but as a necessity!”
“As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.”
“As we grow better, we meet better people.”
“As we grow closer to Jesus, He gradually unveils our own deepest longings and desires. That’s because we belong to Him. We are created in His own image and likeness, and we find all our true answers in Him and in the desires of His heart. So quiet your mind, and let Him fill you up with His love.”
Source: Lead with Love
“As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and divine grace heal the intellect and the will of the effects of concupiscence. We can begin to see things clearly.”
Source: Lord, Have Mercy: The Healing Power of Confession
“As we grow in higher consciousness, we discover that it is more important to be the right person then to find the right person.”