When we first begin to take power more directly, after long having kept our relationship to it underground...it is natural that we experience anxiety, even guilt, at putting ourselves first. These feeling let us know we are taking action; they do not need to stop us.
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Related In fact, all of us are very susceptible to having our humiliating experiences turn to shame, especia... BRENé BROWN 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invent... C.S. LEWIS The complex called the feeling of guilt does not let us accept ourselves the way we are created SUNDAY ADELAJA . . . love is an action. Many of our emotions can be kept to ourselves to experience, but love is an... CHRISTOPHER SHEA It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we ar... FRANÇOIS FÉNÉLON We kept our focus. I think after that final buzzer when we all fell to our knees on the floor, I thi... ELISE BRONZO Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO These are the homes we need to address, because we know they are not going to do anything with them ... DAN GALLAGHER Criminals usually don't want to be observed, so they leave when they spot us. We do what we call 'co... DEE TVEDT Even if we choose to sever the ties to all we ever knew as home, to redefine the spaces we live in, ... ROBERT GOOLRICK The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... CRAIG GROESCHEL The more a person analyzes his inner self, the more insignificant he seems to himself. This is the f... WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER Breaking our silence is powerful. 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RUSH LIMBAUGH Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us.... MAJID KAZMI It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may. We are never able to know ourselves ful... MOHANDAS GANDHI We pride ourselves on our defense, and it kept us in the game. Our offense just wasn't going. They h... BRAD HOOVER People like us, we think differently, don't we? We are different. We do all the things that others d... SIMON MORDEN Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves. MELODY BEATTIE When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It i... KATHERINE MANSFIELD We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND Don't let anyone persuade you that anything we do in life less than our own best, is a worthy thing.... MAUDE ADAMS God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of ho... W. H. AUDEN When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It i... KATHERINE MANSFIELD We must also realize that nothing happens without a purpose. Nothing. Not even broken hearts. Not ev... YASMIN MOGAHED What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending...we gotta let ourselves be. CHRISTINA AGUILERA Getting swept at Virginia, that's not a good thing. After (that) weekend, we kind of took it upon ou... JOSH CRIBB It is not unreasonable for us to desire some options. Some Europeans, I know, believe it is necessar... HENRY KISSINGER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Wedding anniversary simply means,it is time to rededicate ourselves to our relationship & begin to d... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. T... STEVEN PINKER We are so accustomed to the comforts of "I cannot", "I do not want to" and "it is too difficult" tha... PANDORA POIKILOS There are things we don't do. From this moment forth, let us all ensure our every action reflects we... JACK CAMPBELL We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they none... JEFFREY MOUSSAIEFF MASSON When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ... CRAIG GROESCHEL At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not ... DEB CALETTI It is a very difficult secret to understand that when we do not want to possess another selfishly, h... EKNATH EASWARAN It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on prob... THOMAS à KEMPIS Our challenges are not the enemy. They help us take charge; once we take charge, it creates discipli... CHARLENA JACKSON There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our... JOHN DENVER So long as we do not know definitely what we want, our forces will be scattered, and so long as our ... CHRISTIAN D. LARSON The unconditional love that God gives us when we are in relationship with him frees us and sustains ... TIM CRAWSHAW My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing,... ANNA SEWELL My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing,... ANNA SEWELL We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched... JOSEPH JOUBERT In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't... CRAIG GROESCHEL We know there are times when the power company needs more power and times they don't. They know they... DAN MCFADDEN Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're t... MICHAEL STEELE We need to take things personally. We need to stop putting profits above people. We need to stop put... SHARAD VIVEK SAGAR We try to service our members to the best of our ability, and when they ask us to help them do somet... MARY HOWELL It's taking us a long time to even get to the locations where we can begin the restoration process. LINDA FOY This film points out how we need these types of natural environments, as was brought home by the New... DAVE ECKERT When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years o... TOM ROBBINS We all have supernatural powers, but do not know how to use them. That is why they are called SUPER-... SUZY KASSEM The complex known as feelings of guilt does not let us accept ourselves the way we are created SUNDAY ADELAJA Our defense let us down. We just got ourselves in a hole that we shouldn't have been in. We couldn't... ELGIN PERRY Once we start to work with Feminine power we begin to see that it is not our minds that are in contr... LUCY H. PEARCE It is therefore of supreme importance that we consent to live not for ourselves but for others. When... THOMAS MERTON We need to know how we are feeling. Mindfully acknowledging our feelings serves as an 'emotional... NOREENA HERTZ We all have those things that help us carry on through life. It is important that these things upon ... L.M. BROWNING I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M They just executed better. They kept taking it to us, and we weren't responding. BOB BOLDON There are absolutely almost perfect people who experience no guilt; they don't know what it is. ... MIKE NICHOLS There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experienc... JOHN DENVER Even if our survival skills have become impediments we would like to let go of because they have cea... MAUREEN BRADY It might not stop after this action or even the next action, but we have to keep saying it. That's w... CHARLES COOPER We started putting more pressure on them defensively, started to take care of the ball. I think our ... KERRY JANQUART Our first record wasn't really . . . I don't know . . . us. I mean . . . it had no feeling at all. P... DAN MARSALA If we need the protection of men, let us first ask it from God. If we prevail with Him, the power of... ALEXANDER CARSON Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it i... LEIGH HUNT When someone says we need to talk , what he or she usually means is you will listen . An... JAMES ANDERSON Even if our loved ones have assured us that they will be busy at work, even if they told us they hat... ALAIN DE BOTTON Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD At times, we need to let our choices die, for us to get a better direction in life. SUNDAY ADELAJA The search for a God of our own understanding is one of the most important efforts we will undertake... NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Let us know our differences! Let us understand our differences! Let us know and understand that we a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Continuing a series on God and the human condition: The situation in which we find ourselves in th... SAMUEL M. SHOEMAKER Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to
do our duty as... ROY DISNEY I still think we're very capable of doing what everybody expected us to do when we have a full roste... BRANDON HEATH Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have ... E. JOSEPH COSSMAN Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily li... MORTIMER J. ADLER We have to change our behavior, ... We are the mother, the first teacher, and we have to start our o... KARRINE STEFFANS We start believing that someone knows how we feel, and let them overrule our judgments so we will ta... CLANCY IMISLUND Do the thing and you will have the power. RALPH WALDO EMERSON When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. ... A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM In the first half, I thought we jumped out on them and were playing great defense, and it kept us in... DEB PATTERSON I think it's a big advantage for us. I think the experience is going to help us. We just need to tak... ASHLEY DAVIS Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of... HARRIET GOLDHOR LERNER
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MAUREEN COULTER Pre-paid has made a difference to all the operators. MAUREEN COULTER The problem in roaming through agreements is in providing third-generation mobile services such as d... MAUREEN COULTER The good thing about working in children's publishing is that they change how they interact, so you ... MAUREEN O'CONNELL ...but somehow when it's real, when it's your life... that person can feel even farther off and more... MAUREEN JOHNSON How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing? MAUREEN O'HARA I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one. MAUREEN FORRESTER God has a most wicked sense of humor. MAUREEN O'HARA I've heard people on panels say, 'You must have a Web site. You need to tweet. Repeat the ti... MAUREEN JOHNSON A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ... 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MAUREEN CROSS By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on th... MAUREEN FORRESTER Sorely in need of a tight editorial leash, (Miller) was kept on no leash at all, and that has hurt t... MAUREEN DOWD I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart. MAUREEN O'HARA Many large corporations are actually modeled on hell,' Brother Frank added. 'The policies and organi... MAUREEN JOHNSON We have three individuals with an interest in the seat and it does not include Mr Douglas. MAUREEN WEBBER Only about one per cent of the appeals was not resolved in the way we would have wanted. But under n... MAUREEN WEBBER At this time, as we speak, he has not sought membership of the People's National Party. MAUREEN WEBBER We live through (floods) a lot. We're not that concerned this time because this year we have power a... MAUREEN WEINSTEIN That's why I've pushed the idea for adult children and friends to try to help. MAUREEN WIDNER