“When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay.” WayGivingYearsAgeFeltParentBornCryArmsGiving UpDecidedAskingSuicideLegsGravesCommitWorriedMy FutureArms And LegsAsking WhyBorn This WayLoving Parents Author:Nick Vujicic
“When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself - a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called clerical somebody), a righteous or unrighteous man,...and throws himself into the arms of God...then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, that is metanoia and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.” MenGivingTryingChristianChristArmsGiving UpSaintSinnerRighteousGethsemane Book:The Cost of Discipleship Source: The Cost of Discipleship
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” GivingPoliticsForceAttentionLibertyArmsCitizensGiving UpApproachGunPreservesPatriotismSuspectsJealousAmendmentsGun ControlRuinedFoundingJewels4th Of JulyFreedom And LibertyIntriguingSecond AmendmentFreedom LibertyProperty RightsFirearmsRight To Bear ArmsBearing ArmsIndividual LibertyGun RightsRights And FreedomsPro GunFounding Fathers GunIndividual Freedom2 AmendmentFounding Fathers Second AmendmentFramersPublic TrustPrice Of FreedomAnti GunAmendment 1Tyranny Founding FathersStrong ArmsAmending The ConstitutionAmendment 19Amendment 4Security And FreedomAmendment 13Guards Up Author:Patrick Henry
“Folded in my arms you're a butterfly in reverse you're giving up your wings and inheriting my curse you're letting go of me you're letting go” GivingArmsLetting GoGiving UpWingsCurseButterflyReverse Author:Maggie Stiefvater
“As a matter of fact she does not know to this day if those words were spoken, or if he only caught her, wound his arms around her, held her so tightly, with such continual, changing pressures that it seemed more than two arms were needed, that she was surrounded by him, his body strong and light, demanding and renouncing all at once, as if he was telling her she was wrong to give up on him, everything was possible, but then again that she was not wrong, he meant to stam himself on her and go.” IfsKnowsGivingDoeTwoMatterFactsBodyLightPassionStrongArmsNeededGiving UpPressureCaughtWoundsThis DayMatter Of Fact Author:Alice Munro
“Griffin leaned across the desk, his arms braced on the now-clear top, and stared into Wakefield’s outraged eyes. “We seem to be under a confusion of communication. I did not come here to ask for your sister’s hand. I came to tell you I will marry Hero, with or without your permission, Your Grace. She has lain with me more than once. She may well be carrying my child. And if you think that I’ll give up either her or our babe, you have not done nearly enough research into my character or history.” IfsThinkingGivingWellsMayChildrenDoneEnoughCharacterHandsSeemsEyeAsksClearGraceCommunicationArmsHeroGiving UpResearchConfusionMy ChildrenPermissionDesksBabeOutraged Author:Elizabeth Hoyt
“ll K Hamilton Some days the lion eats you, but some times you shove your arm down it's throat and pull it's visera out through it's mouth and kill it. Of course, sometimes it bites your arm off, and then eats you, but you tried, that's what counts. Some days it's not about winning, but about fighting. If you don't try, the lion will most definetely eat you. But sometimes when you put your all into something, and don't give up even when the odds are so against you, you surprise the lion and yourself, and you win.” IfsGivingTryingSometimesFightingCoursesWinningArmsGiving UpMouthsSurpriseThroatLionsBitesOddsDon't Give UpHamilton Author:Laurell K. Hamilton