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“You have been taught things only from human perspective. To be holy, you must have holistic perspective. You must see things from other perspectives.
For example: A Mango tree does business with human beings. It covers its seeds with sweet pulp and says, “My seeds can’t grow under my shade. So please take my seeds away from me. As your service fee, you can have the pulp.”
“You have been the last dream of my soul.”
Source: Tale of Two Cities
“You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated”
Source: The Fountainhead
“You have been the pillow
I lay my weary soul upon”
“You have been the recipient of generations of programming of a variety of lies. Spanning back 20 generations in your lineage, each parent’s parent totals over a million immediate ancestors for you alone. In approximately 500 years, you have a multitude of beliefs, energies, and DNA combining and influencing your existence from all these people in your lineage.”
“You have been to hell, Ketut?"
He smiled. Of course he's been there.
What's it like in hell?"
Same like in heaven," he said.
He saw my confusion and tried to explain. "Universe is a circle, Liss."
He said. "To up, to down -- all same, at end."
I remembered an old Christian mystic notion: As above, so below.
I asked. "Then how can you tell the difference between heaven and hell?"
Because of how you go. Heaven, you go up, through seven happy places. Hell, you go down, through seven sad places. This is why it better for you to go up, Liss." He laughed.
Same-same," he said. "Same in end, so better to be happy in journey."
I said, "So, if heaven is love, then hell is.. "
Love, too," he said.
Ketut laughed again, "Always so difficult for young people to understand this!”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.
This is but a half truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link.
To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the ocean by the failty of its foam.
To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconsistency.”
Source: The Prophet
“You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.
This is but half the truth.
You are also as strong as your strongest link.
To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam.
To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.
Aye, you are like an ocean,
And though heavy-grounded ships await the tide upon your shores, yet, even like an ocean, you cannot hasten your tides.
And like the seasons you are also,
And though in your winter you deny your spring,
Yet spring, reposing within you, smiles in her drowsiness and is not offended.”
Source: The Prophet
“You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.
This is but half the truth.
You are also as strong as your strongest link.
To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the ocean
by the frailty of its foam.
To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.”
Source: The Prophet
“You have been told that God is a loving, gracious, merciful, kind, compassionate, wonderful, and good sky fairy who runs a day care in the sky and has a bucket of suckers for everyone because we're all good people. That is a lie... God looks down and says 'I hate you, you are my enemy, and I will crush you,' and we say that is deserved, right and just, and then God says 'Because of Jesus I will love you and forgive you.' This is a miracle.”
“You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school.”
“You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“You have been told your whole life to be a man.
Showing emotions is a sign of a weak man.
Crying is not an option as a man.
Act tough and be strong—that's a man.
When in truth, it takes courage to cry; faking a smile is easy.
I can’t imagine being a man.”
“You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.”
“You have been travelling that road, all alone, that trail of dark and light, through curves unknown, through mountains and valleys, only to find: you are the trailrunner and you are the trail; you are the storyteller and you are the story.”
“You have been unfailingly diligent and unfailingly taciturn. Work is a guarantee of solitude. Living a solitary life; you are able to let the regular rhythm of long hours of work followed by brief rest carry you through the days, with no time to fear the outer dark beyond the circle of light.”
Source: Human Acts
“You have been used to take notice of the sayings of dying men — this is mine: That a life spent in the service of God, and communion with him, is the most comfortable and pleasant life that one can live in the present world.”
“You have been waiting for a gift all the while but you forgot that you are the gift - unwrap the gem within and shine!”
“You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper under, a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Tell me, is the earth worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely.”
“You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.”
Source: My Name Is Memory
“You have been with the same guy for three years. If anyone accuses you of being a whore for sleeping with the second man of your college career, I'll cut a bitch.”
Source: Wicked Thing
“You have before you the beginnings of an amazing opportunity to explore this transformation within yourself, your entire being, physically, mentally and spiritually, monitor its progress and expand on it, and always continue to believe and trust in yourself. Realize that high-intensity interval training will be as hard as you make it, so make sure it counts, in the end it will be extremely rewarding. Use this to your advantage. May you achieve what you desire for yourself and the goals you set, and may the world open up to you the eventualities you seek.”
Source: Intense Transformation: Discover How HIIT—the Most Powerful Exercise to Transform Your Mind, Body, & Spirit—Can Activate Your Full Potential
“You have before you the task of seeking new ways to announce Christ in situations of rapid and often profound transformation, and of emphasizing the missionary character of all pastoral activity.”
“You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.”
Source: What Work Is
“You have believed that what crime and iniquity have defiled and deformed, another crime and another iniquity can purify and redeem. Wrong! Hate never produces anything but monsters and crime criminals! Love alone realizes wonderful works, virtue alone can save!”
Source: The Reign of Greed: Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo'
“You have bewitched me," he whispered, his hands coming to rest on her waist. "In mind, body, and spirit.”
Source: The Successor: Tales of Pern Coen
“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love...I love...I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.”
“You have big names in Scientology running around pretending to be the nicest people, and they take the care to talk to you and look at you in the eye, but that's all part of the process. That's all part of being in the church - to be a good example, to ingratiate yourself to Hollywood so that they'll say, "Hey, I don't know why you're attacking Scientology." It's all purposeful. I did it, I know!”
“You have bigger balls than some men I know.”
“You have bits of canvas that are unpainted and you have these thick stretcher bars. So you see that a painting is an object; that it's not a window into something - you're not looking at a landscape, you're not looking at a portrait, but you're looking at a painting. It's basically: A painting is a painting is a painting. And it's what Frank Stella said famously: What you see is what you see.”
“You have bled. You have cried. You have had sand kicked in your eyes. On your dreams all before. There is no difference then. Now. Twenty-four. Twenty-two. Eighteen. Twelve. You do not cave. So why do you think you should now?”
Source: An Abundance of Apricots
“You have books and papers, and can go where you please, and gather intelligence in a thousand ways. But your slaves have no privileges. You'd whip one of them if caught reading a book. They are held in bondage, generation after generation, deprived of mental improvement, and who can expect them to possess much knowledge? If they are not brought down to a level with the brute creation, you slaveholders would never be blamed for it. If they are baboons, or stand no higher in the scale of intelligence than such animals, you and men like you will have to answer for it. There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be a reckoning yet, Epps, there's a day coming that will burn as an oven. It may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a coming as sure as the Lord is just.”
Source: 12 Years a Slave
“You have both the right and the obligation to disrupt beliefs that don’t serve a greater good.”
Source: The Happiness Reset - What To Do When Nothing Makes You Happy
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
Source: Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
“You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“You have broken my heart. Just as well. Now I am learning to rise above all that, learning the thin life, waking up simply to praise everything in this world that is strong and beautiful always—the trees, the rocks, the fields, the news from heaven, the laughter that comes back all the same. Just as well. Time to read books, rake the lawn in peace, sweep the floor, scour the faces of the pans, anything. And I have been so diligent it is almost over, I am growing myself as strong as rock, as a tree which, if I put my arms around it, does not lean away.”
Source: Thirst
“You have brought hope to those who have none”
“You have brought me back to myself.”
“You have brought me here, gentlemen, in hopes of conquest--in an attempt to rein in this feminine largeness, to shrink it down and force it to acquiesce to your paternal control, to allow our culture to forget that any of this dragon business ever happened. This, my friends, is an impossibility.”
Source: When Women Were Dragons
“You have brought the best things in my life. I used to be so unhappy before but now I am filled with joy and peace. Thank you for bringing so many good things into my life.”
“You have brought with you (in this life) the ritual actions. The Knowledge (Gnan) part has to be done. Pure ritual is the result of the Knowledge (Gnan) part.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“You have built a human relationship on the foundation of asbestos.”
Source: The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
“You have built a machine that devours itself and calls it progress.”
Source: Devoured by Diversity: A Satire
“You have business and pleasure to attend to. As an expert in both, allow me to advise you to put them aside for the next ten minutes. Why?
“Because the world is about to transform, and you will want to be able to say you saw it happen. The axes of our little universe are about to flip, and you’ll want to get your magboots set.”
Source: Rubicon
“You have but a short time to live in this world. As you age, you will experience the pains of aging. If your hopes and joys rest upon the body, then you will suffer greatly.”
“You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?”
“You have but one life. You could spend it taking stock of what others have and resenting it, or you could spend it taking stock of what you have and doing something with it.”
Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions
“You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.”
“You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.”
Source: Auto-da-fé
“You have cable?” He nodded toward her TV. She tossed him the clicker. “Sure do. And if I remember, there’s a Godzilla marathon on TBS tonight.” “Sweet,” the vampire said, kicking his legs out. “I always root for the monster.” She smiled at him. “Me, too.”
Source: Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood