#give

Lessons are not given, they are taken. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#lessons #taken

I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization. ↗

— Alberto Salazar

#during #enough #give #i #myself

Love the giver more than the gift. ↗

— Brigham Young

#gift #giver #love #more #than

You've got to be willing to forgive and say, 'God, get something good out of something bad.' And if you'll make that choice... God will do it. ↗

— Don Young

#choice #forgive #get #god #good

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#between #busy #feeling #give #important

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#completely #drawn #feeling #free #give

A sincere attitude of gratitude is a beatitude for secured altitudes. Appreciate what you have been given and you will be promoted higher. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#altitudes #appreciate #appreciation #attitude #attitudes

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ↗

— John Muir

#beauty #body #body needs #bread #everybody

His lips met mine again, this time in a slow, soft caress, conveying everything he had just said in those beautiful words that had reached my very soul. I could have drowned in that kiss. I could have lived there for eternity. It filled me up with everything I needed to survive. He gave me life through his lips and I treasured it. ↗

— Nicola Claire

#kindred-series #lucinda-monk #beauty

Someone, somewhere, needs to take courage to break the cycle of violence. Forgiveness is superior to justice. Being kind and compassionate to those who are good to you is easy. True forgiveness and compassion come only when one is able to forgive even those who have committed barbaric acts. If Angulimala is capable of renouncing violence, then tell me, your Majesty: is your civilized society also capable of being truly civilized and renouncing violence? ↗

— Satish Kumar

#compassion #forgiveness #justice #revenge #violence