Most of us know the cliche quote, "if god is for you, then who can be against you," so if god is giving you a gift, and you can turn to him in desperate times to hadle that gift (the child) then the things in life that make parenting "too hard," will start to look like nothing. ... Christ came so that we may have life, and if you take away a life that Jesus Christ died for, it's like slapping god himself in the face. ... To live like Jesus is a goal that most strive for. You will never fully live like Jesus because you sin every day. ... Remember that you molded me li...

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Gilgamesh's mother, Ninsun, said to him, "Like a wife you"ll love him, caress and embrace him, he will be mighty, and often save you" (I. 271-272). ... No, he wants immortality: "I look at you, Uta-napishti: your form is no different, you are just like me How was it you stood with the gods in assembly? How did you find the life eternal?" ... There is a plant that looks like a box-thorn, it has prickles like a dogrose, and will prick one who plucks it. But if you can possess this plant, you"ll be again as you were in your youth" (XI. 281-286). ...

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You have the chance to become whatever you desire - it's a gift that God gives you, » he told me once. ... Like John Bunyan, Chris feels like he is only a pilgrim passing through « the wilderness of this world. ... Every once and a while, you meet one of those special people that you will remember throughout your entire life. ... They build you up when others tear you down. Just when you feel like giving up on society, someone does something that shows that there are still great people out there. ...

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Mario Cuomo Life is like a butterfly. You can chase it, or you can let it come to you. ... It sounded like this: Look. ... Carl Jung Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ... Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change. ...

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Thought out our lives we often think of the past and what life was like, and without a time machine we would never know for sure what it was like for our own. ... Because he was traveling during the period of time he took the photographs, his work gives off the vibe of what life would look like from the eyes of me or you coming from the 21st century would experience; Frank was someone on the outside looking in bring a whole new perspective of life. ... By stopping time and reflecting on the people you can grasp an idea of life in the shoes of the charters captured. ... Photography plays a ro...

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Don't you want them to know you"re alive (39)?" ... The dogs constantly baying in the background and his warm temperature like that of a dog's are symbols associated with Val, as he is in some ways not quite human. ... I know what you mean. ... You did. You came. ...

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And you"re just about the smartest kid alive" (Kingsolver 97). ... "The thing about you, Taylor, is that you just don't let anybody put one over on you" (Kingsolver pg.150). ... "I have to know something for Turtle's and my sake, if Angel wanted to come back, I mean move back in with you, would you say yes?" ... Edna is like Virgie's will to live. ... They looked dead to me, like everything else in the park. ...

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These aspects are woven together to form a pretzel shape, if life was a pretzel it wouldn't matter where you began to eat it, either on the part composed of mind, body or spirit it would all still taste like pretzel. ... Mind, body and spirit are so intertwined that you cannot isolate one from the other. ... I believe that in order for this to really work you just have to believe it will, if you believe its going to heal you, and stay positive, more than likely it will. ... I believe that this healing works with the mind, almost like being hypnotized, and really has nothing to do with flo...

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The yearn for home is shown when Shukov remembers what it was like at his village. ... Tiurin was portrayed best as a father figure when Shukov said " a squad leader is everything: a good one will give you a second life, a bad one will put you in your coffin." ... Many of the men in the camp do not remember what freedom is like, and felt like they served a better purpose in camp. ... You should rejoice that you are in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul." ...

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When asked about it Mr Keating simply explains "We let poetry dip from our tongue's like honey. ... How extraordinary your life is, is not measured in how much you possess or what kind of job you have, but in the relationships and knowledge that you have and share with others. ... "Well tell me what you feel. ... Because you can forget about that," Neil's father yells at him. ... Seize the day, and you will be grateful. ...

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Are you content?" ... For example, Biff realizes that Willy is a dreamer, shouting "You fake! You phoney little fake! You fake!" ... For example, Willy claims that Charley is a man who is "liked, but not well-liked". ...

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It is like the ultimate consciousness. ... It is not an easy task, you must first become a complete altruist, you as a single person can not exist anymore. ... You can not believe in just one religion or just one philosophy. ... They look at what was done during WWII and get scared that a society might try something like that again. Also people generally don't like looking past their own lifetime. ...

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Death is a very powerful thing and you can see how Morrie reacted to it as you read this final thesis of Mitch. ... He once said that you must learn how to die, before you learn how to live. ... I had never really thought of death like this until reading this book; it shows you how much more to life there is. ... Words of wisdom like this are theories of Victor Frankl and teachings of Buddha. A powerful statement like this helped Mitch succeed much more in his constant/never-ending field of work. ...

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"You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own. ... Unfortunately, you can't be that precise and selective. ... It's like playing dominoes. ... Same in reality every little action you make could affect someone's life without you even realizing it. ... There was this one guy whom I like the most. ...

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You couldn't talk much and you did not need to talk"(581). ... I didn't mean I didn't love you." ... Krebs is a part of a loving, faith-driven family and that is shown when Krebs" mother says, "You know we love you and I want to tell you for your own good how matters stand." ... When he went away only little girls wore their hair like that or girls that were fast (580). ... On the whole he had liked Germany better. ...

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s point of view almost like a journal. ... Lucy snapped the dreams of their future into reality saying, "your lives are set out for you, [and you will soon] start to donate you vital organs" (81). ... At one point she even breaks from her character and addresses the reader saying, "I don't know if you had "collections" where you were" when she says how she could tell Hailsham people and other people apart (38). ... His careful thought into his animals is much like Kathy trying to order her thoughts. Tommy's story is visual because he was never good with ...

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I hope you had the time of your life. ... It is written in the point of view of an adult who attempts to learn how to be like a child, to use imagination and curiosity and to make things that are normally ignored, new and exciting. ... The poem is full of personifications of age and life: "Never fear, Age will catch you, slow down, ere it dispatch you." ... These lines show how eventually age will get the better of you and you will not be able to do the things you can when you are young. ... The first talks about the way the world used to look like to a person most likely during childhoo...

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"You looked at my hand and you knew that I was the slave of the Ring, while you were as free as the wind is free" (801). ... "When I saw your corpse in your coffin, I flung back your flower to you; it was all of yours I ever had; you may keep it, and-keep from me" (801). ... May He not have been searching for that wild star, with trailing plumage....instead of thinking of you?" ... She is asking why God isn't pursuing grander things like the stars and planets, but she also asks why he isn't concerned with the starving or the dying. ... This is like saying that the purpose women have ...

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"Are you real? ... Like the Pearl Maiden, Gibarian uses John's Apocalypse not to frighten his subject, but to educate. "And like John, we, too, are faced with a choice. ... The narrator, like the Pearl Maiden, is also a member of God's kingdom pearl. ... She was shared, like all life is, as a personification of the divine awaiting us. ...

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He said "Family is worth more than gold", by that he said or meant to say that money would have no value if you don't have a family to share any of it with them. He also stated that "There is no time to stop learning until death" this teaching really relates to another later said quote "Knowledge is the meaning of life", as you can see he said that knowledge is key in life or it is life, because really there would be no meaning of life without knowledge. ... Which brings me down to another one of his quotes "You should give education to common people ins...

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The gift, symbolizes life and that someone in supreme power, like a God or Goddess is releasing this power to the world. ... Or it could be that the gift of life is what is placed in your hands, and you and only you have the power to live it. ... At that moment when you open your eyes for the first time, is when life is put into your own hands. You can choose to live your life anyway your heart desires. ... "on the one before it, all the days of the past stacked high like the impossible tower of dishes entertainers used to build on stage." ...

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"But are you happy?... "Wait a moment before you pick it up. ... Now love what you touch, and you will touch wisely."" ... She ends the poem with two wishes that sound like prayers. ... I hope that you have found a better understanding of these two poems....

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If you are not sleeping, then you are awake and if you are not awake then you have to be asleep. This example further proves that you can only be one of something or the other, its opposite, but you must be one of them. ... Then Socrates ventures to say that if you are not alive then you are dead. ... Cebes, again, rejects Socrates" idea, and says that the soul and body are like a lyre and harmony. ... He then states that the harmony is like that of the soul and the lyre shares a likeness with the body. ...

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A place beyond reality is where Johnson goes to escape and would like to take his readers. ... If you are not seeking it and instead keep a stagnant mind, but know it is there, you will be at the mercy of that which does not follow the rules of reality. ... And if you keep a constant faith in the entity beyond our reality you are rewarded with death. ... In the last line "Nature" is everything that could avert you from the faith you have, if nature retreats and you die then it is possible you can begin to understand that which you thought was beyond reality, and it becomes reality. ... This do...

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What do you think of when you consider the mind? Do you marvel at its wondrous capabilities in all realms of existence? Perhaps you do, but I would speculate that few pause to consider the great depth of evil fathomable within the mind. ... In mine there is a vast chasm that you reach when youve wandered too far away from the forest. ... The doctors didnt think that I would live if I kept fighting like that. ...

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