Allowing Quotes - Page 4

• I can't imagine God not allowing my dog into heaven.

  Rick Warren

  Dog, Heaven, Imagine

  "Do Dogs Go to Heaven?" by Carl M. Cannon, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 20, 2015.

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• The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be.

  Hayley Williams

  Occupation, Want, Matter

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• Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.

  Alfre Woodard

  Trying, Agnostic, Figures

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• In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

  Ron Wyden

  Country, Thinking, Drug

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• For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Mean, Way, Firsts

  "The Future of Facebook". Interview with Laura Locke, content.time.com. July 17, 2007.

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• In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Numbers, Data, Police

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• Brains are tricky and adaptable organs. For all the 'neuroplasticity' allowing our brains to reconfigure themselves to the biases of our computers, we are just as neuroplastic in our ability to eventually recover and adapt.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Brain, Neuroplasticity, Computer

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• Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air of freedom and forget my own petty self. In love my whole being streams forth out of the rigid confines of narrowness and anxious self-assertion, which make me a prisoner of my own poverty emptiness. In love all the powers of my soul flow out toward you, wanting never more to return, but to lose themselves completely in you, since by your love you are the inmost center of my heart, closer to me than I am to myself.

  Karl Rahner

  Spring, Love You, Heart

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• A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others

  Karl Popper

  Ideas, Important, Opinion

  Karl Popper (2013). “All Life is Problem Solving”, p.84, Routledge

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• It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to the experience of art, and allowing ourselves to be changed in accordance with the ideals it expresses. Art only has the capacity, through shock and catharsis, to make the human soul receptive to good. It’s ridiculous to imagine that people can be taught to be good…Art can only give food – a jolt – the occasion – for psychical experience.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Art, Angel, Long Ago

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• The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Love, Relationship, Light

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.48, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my cave. No matter how much I might want to come out into the light, I knew it would hurt my eyes. I was a fool. A fool, but nevertheless too smart not to know I was the architect of my own demise, that it was time to put my past behind me. It was time to stop allowing the white elephants to stand unspoken of in my living room.

  Megan Hart

  Hurt, Smart, Mean

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• If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.

  Mitch Albom

  Pain, Grief, Way

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• Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.

  Ann Brashares

  Honesty, Fighting, Ivy

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.163, Penguin

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• Only the following items should be considered to be grave faults: not respecting another's rights; allowing oneself to be paralyzed by fear; feeling guilty; believing that one does not deserve the good or ill that happens in one's life; being a coward. We will love our enemies, but not make alliances with them. They were placed in our path in order to test our sword, and we should, out of respect for them, struggle against them. We will choose our enemies.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Struggle, Rights

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• Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics: —missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the universe. —contemplative: by gathering the whole universe at the very center of our hearts where the Lord of the universe abides, and allowing the pure water of divine grace to flow plentifully and unceasingly from the source itself, on the whole of his creation. —universal: by praying and contemplating with all and for all, especially with and for the spiritually poorest of the poor.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Water, Grace

  Mother Teresa (1985). “Mother Teresa: Contemplative in the Heart of the World”

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• Since I’m presuming you don’t mean you finally bought him a leash, let me say simply that there is a big difference between allowing an animal to ravage you and allowing yourself to be ravaged. One is common. The other is art. It is planned. Crafted, even. Only capable of being done by a master.

  Richelle Mead

  Art, Mean, Animal

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Thorn Queen”, p.38, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• The trouble with aggressive nonsmokers is that they feel they are doing you a favor by not allowing you to smoke. They seem to think that one day you'll look back and thank them for those precious fifteen seconds they just added to your life. What they don't understand is that those are just fifteen more seconds you can spend hating their guts and plotting revenge.

  David Sedaris

  Revenge, Hate, Thinking

  David Sedaris (2010). “Barrel Fever”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• Bending his head over hers, Leo murmured, "When I give you away at the altar, Bea, I want you to remember something. I'm not really giving you away. I'm merely allowing him the chance to love you as much as the rest of us do.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Love You, Giving, Remember Something

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Love in the Afternoon”, p.279, Macmillan

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• One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.

  Richard Russo

  Simple, Men, Decision

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Aug 17, 2010

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• We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They are not necessarily and not always a bucket of smoke, but they can be and are even likely to be.

  Wendell Berry

  Expectations, Scary, Buckets

  Wendell Berry (2005). “Hannah Coulter: A Novel”, p.139, Counterpoint Press

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• In Jones's experience, the decision to turn one's life around in a different direction rarely arrived with fireworks and marching bands. Often, the decision came with tears and regret. Then, almost impossibly, the power of forgiveness would fill an unseen void, allowing a new day's optimism and sense of purpose to take hold and point that life in a new direction.

  Andy Andrews

  Regret, Optimism, New Day

  Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.110, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.

  Melina Marchetta

  Laughing, Satisfaction, Mines

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.69, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We are here on this earth to know God intimately, fully, correctly, and contagiously; to house His holy person in our very bodies, allowing Him to showcase to the world around us His loving nature, His attitude, His thoughts, His emotions, and His actions through the way we live every moment of our lives.

  Eric Ludy

  Attitude, Loving Nature, House

  Eric Ludy, Leslie Ludy (2009). “When God Writes Your Life Story: Experience the Ultimate Adventure”, p.146, Multnomah

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• There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Missing, Being Weird

  Twitter post from Jul 14, 2017

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