But penetration was a big deal. They protected their anuses the way girls protected their hymen in high school, believing that allowing anything beyond their holy gates would permanently corrupt them. - Maggie Young
Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure. - Gloria Ng
Many of the habits of dysfunctional families use are not from the lack of love but are the result of fear. Knowing the love-limiting habits and behaviors of dysfunctional families is a wonderful beginning to lower the fear, allowing us to be real, allowing us all to learn how to love better. - David W. Earle
Allowing people to contribute in your life is a leap of faith. And that comes gradually with self actualization and overcoming fears of uncertainty. - Deepak Chandra
All suffering is not demonic or possess demonic influences. Oftentimes, Christ is simply allowing us to be strengthen for the next level of destiny. - Angela Monique Crudupt
There are two ways of thinking. One is living life based on fear. The other is trusting. Letting go and allowing trust to control our lives takes mental gymnastics. - David W. Earle
Each day brings new opportunities, allowing you to constantly live with love—be there for others—bring a little light into someone's day. Be grateful and live each day to the fullest. - Roy Bennett
My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen. - Rudy Francisco
When we are self-aware, we are able to reach beyond ourselves and objectively assess others... allowing us to meet them where they are at, seeing into their needs and struggles, so we can understand the way they experience life, even if it is vastly different from the way we experience, our own. - Jaeda DeWalt
Not allowing the mind its freedom to think and find the purpose of life takes away the vision to focus. - Amitav Chowdhury
Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just. - Dahlia Lithwick
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort.
Maybe we're all ongoing stories, defined at various stages of life, or whenever people oblige us to declare ourselves. Fiction is marvelous for studying this, allowing the writer and reader to leap decades in a sentence. No other art lets you bend time as much. - Tom Rachman
Like a wild flower; she spent her days, allowing herself to grow, not many knew of her struggle, but eventually all; knew of her light. - Nikki Rowe
One day, my lady." said Mr. Keeper, stepping aside and allowing her to join them, "I should hope I would be fortunate enough to see such a graceful, unearthly curtsy from you again. - Heather Dixon
People think needing a man is weak. I believe what is truly weak is not ALLOWING ourselves to surrender to our deepest desire to have a protective, strong, caring, masculine man in our life. - Renee Wade
There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough. - Alain de Botton
[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it. - John R.W. Stott
For good-intentioned people making decisions, there's no such thing as a bad choice. So it doesn't matter what you choose. Choose something, then deliberately line up with the choice you make. This is the art of alignment and allowing. (paraphrased) - Abraham Hicks
Healing is achieved through turning on the light of your soul and allowing it to shine. - Janet Gallagher Nestor
Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event. - Cyndi Lee
So I believe in the redeeming power of stories, I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in. - Neil Gaiman
Mindfulness allows you to face the past with courage, whether it is scarred with pain or caressed with joy, and it gently holds you in the safe haven of the present without allowing you to become overwhelmed with what may or may not be waiting in the future. - Deborah A. Beasley
Instead of allowing a situation to alter your attitude negatively. Let your positive attitude alter the situation. - karan godara
Allowing a person or thing to leave your life, without further pain is the basis of humanity. Everything else is the reason (theology). - Shannon L. Alder
Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can affect multiple beings in society - Bertrand Russell
Yesterday is there, today is here, live in the now, allowing life to show you the light - Alicia O'Brien
True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily. - Jennifer Aniston
If you have to cut corners to get it, without allowing yourself go through the process, you will not be able to keep it. - Kemi Sogunle
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. - Sarah Ban Breathnach
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. - David M. Burns
If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth. - Robert N. Coons
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. - Brian Tracy
Ascension is the triumph of mastered emotions; a process of gaining clarity in the darkness of blind spots and struggles, allowing you to perceive with the karmic intelligence of the Soul. - Ka Chinery
Don’t ask why people keep hurting you. Ask yourself why are you allowing it to happen. - Robert Tew
Don't mire up in self despair of your losses, learn from them and move on to other good things in life. Don't stop allowing the sunshine in because of the fear that winter will come and engulf the warmth. Hold it close to you to help you through those cold winter days. - Belinda Taylor on "Loss"
Spiritual practice is allowing the temple (your body) to be full of light and to live life as a total celebration. - Tony Samara
Darkness scares us. We yearn for the comfort of light as it provides shape and form, allowing us to recognize and define what's before us. But what is it we're afraid of really? Not the darkness itself, but the truth we know hides within. - Emily Thorne
If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind. - Shannon L. Alder
To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised! It is okay if life surprises you. Its a good thing! - C. JoyBell C.
Please do not become so hurt by life that when someone loving comes along, or something good happens, you resist allowing the love and joy in. - Karen Salmansohn
Allowing children to fight their own battles is one of the hardest parenting skills to learn.
Leadership management is the art of making problems enjoyable and interesting to deal with, by allowing the team to have the power and accountability to resolve them. - Greg Weismantel
Allowing Islamic Sharia law into the constitutions of the U.S-created Islamic (!) Republic of Afghanistan and Republic of Iraq in 2004 and 2005 was as foolhardy as it would have been to write emperor-worship and Shinto militarism into Japan's 1946 constitution. - Robert Spencer
I challenge a man to a duel before allowing him near me, and then I take an arrow, dip it in poison, and drive it straight through his heart...But that's on a good day...when I purr and feel delightfully amorous. No need to mention what I'd do on a bad one. - Donna Lynn Hope
Books open and broaden our minds allowing us to challenge ourselves to become more than we are, by setting positive goals for ourselves, and overcoming doubts about our ability to receive the education we want to achieve. - Ellen J. Barrier
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.
Allowing yourself to forgive will fuel your goals and life vision with new energy. - Eileen Anglin
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. - Mark Twain
Quit allowing negativity to block the positive gifts which are meant for you along with the hard lessons and tribulations. - Bryant McGill
Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book. - Ashwin Sanghi
We have enough space in our hearts, but we are afraid of allowing animals shit and mess around with our feelings. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Programming your mind with positive thoughts each day will go a long way to keep you from allowing external criticism to detail your dreams. - Ken Poirot
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. - Oprah Winfrey