#given

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment. ↗

— Gail Devers

#disease #given #gland #graves #i

What is forgiven is usually well remembered. ↗

— Louis Dudek

#remembered #usually #well

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves. ↗

— Eleanora Duse

#given #grow #old #only #ourselves

It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by. ↗

— Eva Figes

#chance #done #fear #given #hidden

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#beyond #creator #days #deep #enjoy

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#arrested #been #chance #child-like #cocoon

Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had. ↗

— Michael Patrick Jann

#given #had #i #i think #life

Only in a novel are all things given full play. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#full #given #novel #only #play

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ↗

— Jay Leno

#given #god #had #us #vote

I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing in this universe as hell, except maybe in our own terrified minds. Because if even one broken and limited human being could experience even one such episode of absolute forgiveness and acceptance of her own self, then imagine—just imagine!—what God, in all His eternal compassion, can forgive and accept. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#compassion #forgiveness #god #love #people