Embrace Quotes - Page 11

• You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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• Since I was born I remember my dad and my mom always embracing diversity and differences among people and that being the core of America and happiness and all those different things. And that goes along with equality and you should treat everybody equal and be fair and not judge people and dislike people because they are different, and embrace and enjoy people because of the differences they have.

  Connor Barwin

  Mom, Dad, Gay

  "Houston Texan Connor Barwin on marriage equality, his gay brother and NFL culture". Interview with Jim Buzinski, www.outsports.com. June 11, 2012.

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• Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender and race. We spend immeasurable amounts of energy fighting an event that will eventually triumph. Though it is noble not to give in easily, the most alive people I've ever met are those who embrace their death. They love, laugh and live more fully.

  Andy Webster

  Death, Fighting, Acceptance

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• Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings A rain that I know can chill But it is a rain so sweet and sings A song my soul insists That I follow, if I would exist As more than I have ever, ever been If my mother calls it evil, then I embrace the sin

  Walter Dean Myers

  Mother, Song, Sweet

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• But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

  Michael Jackson

  Eye, Silence, God's Creation

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• Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Sweet, Pain

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.205

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• O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Eye, Kissing

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 3, l. 102

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• If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.

  Mitch Albom

  Goodbye, Sleep, Should Have

  Mitch Albom (2011). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena) Simply do the next thing in love. I have no sense of myself apart from you. Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)

  Brennan Manning

  Prayer, Crazy, Fire Of Love

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• He said that hate makes the world go round People are afraid of what they really want They make enemies of all the things that they would like to be They condition themselves to not embrace what they are Love is a clinging nausea I tried to disagree with him It was no use I never saw a more honest look in anyone's eyes.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Eye, Love Is

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• Evelyn: There's nothing wrong with embracing one's emotions. Brittany: Mom, You don't just embrace your emotions, you make love to them hard-core.

  Gena Showalter

  Mom, Making Love, Emotion

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• But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.

  Garth Stein

  Soul, Care, Nervous

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.

  Thomas Merton

  Moving On, Faith, Courage

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.206, Image

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• Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships that stand against the moon, their tale of distant nations. They are held out to say: We are alone. Come. And the voices say with them: We are your kinsmen. And the air is thick with their company as they call to me, their kinsman, making ready to go, shaking the wings of their exultant and terrible youth... Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

  James Joyce

  Moon, Reality, Race

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916)

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• The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.

  Pat Conroy

  Teacher, Life Learning, Reason

  Pat Conroy (2002). “My Losing Season”, Nan A. Talese

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• Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Delight, Deliverance, Thousand

  Rabindranath Tagore (2011). “The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.23, Tuttle Publishing

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• I will love myself, and my body, for what it can do- because it is strong enough to lift, to walk, to ride a bicyle up a hill, to embrace the people I love and hold them fully, and to nurture a new life. I will love myself because I am sturdy. Because I did not -will not- break.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Strong, People, New Life

  Jennifer Weiner (2002). “Good in Bed”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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• It was always easier for me to show love than to say it. The word reminded me of pralines: small, precious, almost unbearable sweet. I would light up in his presence; I felt like a sun in the constellation of his embrace. But trying to put what I felt for him into words diminished it somehow, like pinning a butterfly under glass, or videotaping a comet.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sweet, Butterfly, Glasses

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• And I want to rise up, throw my arms open for a vast embrace, address an ample, luminous discourse to the invisible crowds. I would start like this: "O rainbow-colored gods. . .

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Rainbow, Crowds, Addresses

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.50, Vintage

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• Now, I don't believe in doing hugs halfway. I can't stand people who try to hug without touching. A hug should be a full embrace - as I wrap my arms around Tony, I am not just holding him, but also trying to lift off his troubles for a moment so that the only thing he can feel is my presence, my support.

  David Levithan

  Believe, People, Support

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.100, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

  Neil Gaiman

  Silence, Language, Apocalypse

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• Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core of nothingness, and yet not nothing.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Stars, Night, Darkness

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• I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they hear the voice of the blood, or that they fall in love at first sight... Conceive the wildest improbabilities. Have it that the depths of their beings are thrilled at accosting each other in slang. Tangle them suddenly in a swift embrace or a brotherly kiss. Do whatever you like.

  Jean Genet

  Falling In Love, Kissing, Sight

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.59, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Party, People, Forever

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