Quotes about Embrace
They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm would stay aboveground forever.
- Toni Morrison
Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
- Khalil Gibran
We should not try to "get rid" of a neurosis, but rather to experience what it means, what it has to teach, what its purpose is.
- Carl Jung
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
- Carl Sagan
Never talk about submission without talking about Jesus, and in particular of the cross. Jesus' version of submission is thoughtful, strong, purposeful, and sacrificial. It involves the full and determined embrace of his Father's will (which governs everything Jesus does)3 and the voluntary pouring out of his life to rescue a lost world.4 Submission is both. It is redemptive. It is the gospel. It is a way of showing Jesus to the world.
- Carolyn Custis James
Our identity as God's image bearers casts in cement a fundamental equality, dignity, and purpose among all human beings--truth that if embraced and acted on would make the world a better place. But this is just hors d'oeuvres. For God isn't just giving us existence, exceedingly high rank, and the whole world too, which in itself is a lot to absorb. He is giving us himself!
- Carolyn Custis James
There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.
- Anonymous
While we live, let us live.
- DH Lawrence
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I do believe that people can only be in love with one landscape in their lifetime. One can appreciate and enjoy many geographies, but there is only one that one feels in one's bones.
- JM Coetzee
One must love what is nearest, one must love what is to hand, as a dog loves.
- JM Coetzee
grasping after life as much as you can because of its sweet sadness and because you would be dead some day.
- Jack Kerouac