“So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it has the power to motivate for a lifetime. . . . You don't have to be a doctor to say or do that which puts light in a human eye or joy on a human face. Simply practice Jesus' commandment that we love one another. Go out and do something for somebody. These are the things that make happy people. Here is the one never-failing source of the joy and enthusiasm we are talking about.” PeopleLoveMindHumansHeartLightEyeFacesJoyJesusBornTalkingPracticeFailingSourceDoctorsLifetimeMeaningfulEnthusiasmCommandmentsHeart And MindLove One AnotherHappy PeopleHuman LoveHuman FacesHelpfulnessHuman EyesMake HappyDeep And Meaningful Author:Norman Vincent Peale
“You, just as you are, and your life here, right now, are all there is and all you need to know. You don't have to do anything special. Mostly, you have to be open to meeting face to face, and even dancing with, the truth that pertains to your life right now. You have to find a way to collect your fractured pieces, examine them, and the accept them as part of who you are. Spiritual practice is about transformation, but it's also, and more importantly, about working with what is.” KnowsWayNeedsFacesSpiritualAcceptingPracticePiecesSpecialRight NowTransformationWho You AreDancingMeetingsFace To FaceSpiritual Practice Author:angel Kyodo Williams
“It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind.” ShouldKindWholeFacesPracticeIndustryCapitalismBritish Author:William Randolph Hearst
“Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage.” NeedsLittlesMatterPhilosophyRememberFacesPracticeMinutesStyleRedSeriesInstinctConvictionPregnantApologizingConvenienceAdjustmentOutrageReflexesParenting Styles Author:Ayelet Waldman
“Eventually light prevails, you just have to be patient. So practice Buddhism, learn to be enlightened, put a smile on your face, go find a great teacher, meditate, and stay funny.” LightFacesEffortPracticeTeacherBuddhismPatientEnlightenedYour FaceBe PatientGreat TeacherSmile On Your Face Author:Frederick Lenz
“Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.” InspirationalMeanFacesDesireVisionPracticePerfectionDancingDanceObstaclesGenerosityInvitingChoreographersDance Performance Author:Martha Graham
“In their censures of luxury the fathers are extremely minute and circumstantial; and among the various articles which excite their pious indignation, we may enumerate false hair, garments of any colour except white, instruments of music, vases of gold or silver, downy pillows, white bread, foreign wines, public salutations, the use of warm baths, and the practice of shaving the beard, which, according to Tertullian, is a lie against our own faces, and am impious attempt to improve the works of the Creator.” MayUseFacesLyingFatherWhitePracticeHistoryMinutesHairGoldInstrumentsWineVariousCreatorWarmBreadLuxuryColourSilverArticlesBathsBeardPillowGarmentsPiousRoman EmpireIndignationCensureShavingVasesSalutationsWhite Bread Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Jesus said, "Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). We must honestly face the question, "Am I willing to give up a certain practice or habit that is keeping me from holiness?" It is at this point of commitment that most of us fail. We prefer to dally with sin, to try to play with it a little without getting too deeply involved.” GivingTryingLittlesDoeSaidPlayFacesCertainJesusSinPracticeFailingWillingHabitInvolvedGiving UpCommitmentHonestlyHolinessDiscipleNot Giving UpLuke Book:The Pursuit of Holiness Source: The Pursuit of Holiness
“The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.” WayMindHeartRealityFacesMovingOpportunityFreedomEducationPracticeImagineFieldsPossibilityDemandLaborRemainsBoundariesLimitationOpennessClassroomLocationHeart And MindComrade Author:Bell Hooks
“Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.” WorldLooksLightFacesInterestPrinciplesBreakPracticeBearsQuittingModestyIncline Author:Marcus Aurelius
“Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls. We must speak-blaspheme, if necessary; be accused of being apostates, if that is what is required. Muslims are taught that Islam put an end to the Arabian practice of burying alive newborn baby girls because they were considered worthless and a burden, but as long as we stay quiet in the face of the abomination of child marriage, we are effectively burying our girls alive today.” IfsKnowsChildrenLongEndsTodayLastsFacesGirlSpeakPracticeKnow HowAliveTaughtBabyQuietAdvantageIslamKillingBurdenObedienceWorthlessAccusedLive For TodayNewbornBaby GirlAbominationBuryingArabianNewborn Baby Author:Mona Eltahawy
“At age ten I switched to guitar, and I've loved the instrument ever since. And I love to practice. I just do. I just love guitar. It still brings a smile to my face!” StillsAgeFacesPracticeTenInstrumentsGuitar Author:Michael Angelo Batio
“Turn off your computer and go out of doors. Dig a large enough hole to transplant a mature apple tree. Nurture the tree, feed it, coddle it so that its fruit will be ample, bright and firm. Practice open-hand strikes against the rough bark of the trunk until it's time to harvest. Choose the champion of your apple crop, pluck it from the tree, and beat yourself about the face and tits with it until your mettle will suffice.” EnoughHandsFacesTurnsPracticeDoorsTreeComputerBeatsFruitStrikesHolesFirmChampionApplesRoughMatureNurtureHarvestCropsBarkTrunksTurn OffPluckTransplantsApple TreesMettle Author:Nick Offerman
“The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is being spilled in the merriest way, as if it was champagne," Dostoevsky says. That raises the problem of justice, what it might mean in an unjust world and whether there can be an ethics and a political practice that would be able to face and face down the injustice of the present. How might we begin to think about that?” IfsThinkingWorldWayMeanProblemMightWould BeAbleFacesPoliticalSidesJusticePracticeBloodEthicsRaisesInjusticeDisappointmentRealizationUnjustChampagne Author:Simon Critchley