“To gain confidence, constant practice is essential. Just as a musician needs to practice regularly to retain his touch, the watercolourist needs to be constantly in touch with the medium.” NeedsPracticeEssentialsMusicianGainsConstantMediumsGaining Confidence Author:Robert A. Lovett
“As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.” WayNationsVoiceChallengesWhiteEssentialsRacismGainsFemaleHearingProgressiveWhite SupremacyConstructiveSupremacyFemale Voice Author:Bell Hooks
“The person who takes power will never be happy with those things they gain. They have lost their essential balance and innocence. And without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.” PersonsLostBuddhismBalanceEssentialsGainsInnocence Author:Frederick Lenz
“First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside.” ThinkingFirstsWellsCertainMy OwnAbilitySecretGoes OnEssentialsGainsCalmRequirementsPeace WithinStay Calm Book:You learn by living Source: You learn by living
“[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.” ThinkingWritingCertainPleasureEssentialsGainsSevenFinalsDinnerCooksMeatOccupationDiariesEntrySausageDiary Entries Author:Virginia Woolf
“Great love -- the kind that illumines and transforms us -- always includes a keen awareness of limitation as well. Though love may inspire us to expand and develop in new ways, we can never be all things to the one we love, or someone other than who we are. Yet once accepted, limitation also helps us develop essential qualities, such as patience, determination, compassion, and humor. When love comes down to earth -- bringing to light those dark corners we would prefer to ignore, encompassing all the different parts of who we are -- it gains depth and power.” WayWellsKindMayDifferentHelpingLightEarthDarkQualityCompassionAwarenessInspireEssentialsGainsDeterminationAll ThingsDepthCornersAcceptedLimitationWho We AreNew WaysGreat LoveDown To Earth Book:JOURNEY HEART PB Source: JOURNEY HEART PB
“Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.” HappensPrayerSinGraceSacrificeFieldsDisciplineEssentialsGainsDuesConfessionSacraments Author:Lou Holtz
“I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.” IfsWorldBelievePersonsWholeFallI BelieveEssentialsDiversityGainsUnityI Believe InWhole WorldUnity In Diversity Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us for exaltation. It is important that we gain a sure knowledge that our preparation to enter the holy house and that our participation in these ceremonies and covenants are some of the most significant events we will experience in our mortal lives.” ImportantHouseEventsHolyBlessingEssentialsGainsSacredSignificantSavingMortalsPreparationTemplesParticipationCeremonyCovenantExaltationEdificeOrdinancesHoly PlacesSignificant Events Author:Robert D. Hales
“By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth, is essential if we are to be transformed nonconformists . . . Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a humble and loving spirit.” IfsWorldChristianSpiritualSpiritFightingEvilJesusChristOur LivesBirthCreaturesEssentialsGainsTransformationHumbleOpeningSpokesTransformedSpiritual Transformation Book:A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings