A strong and deep-seeded sense of value and importance in life cannot exist if the continuation of that life is subject to constant threat. If the threat to life is constant and pervasive, then the preservation of life becomes the only concern. The daily quest for survival would provide little time to reflect on life's meaning and one's place in the world. ... Mastery forms the most basic sense of self-worth because it clearly defines Adam and Eve's place and duty in Paradise; their job, their role, gives their daily life purpose and meaning. ... In their daily lives, they aid...

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Like many who have chosen to read this book, I too hoped it would change my life. ... Way of the Peaceful Warrior made me reflect on many, many aspects and questions of life. ... We associate happiness with richness and as Soc puts it, "There are two ways to be rich: spend your life earning it, or learn to live a simple life, that way you always have enough money". ... I feel this is a necessary quote to include because it is something we all experience and in turn affects our daily lives and how we interact with others. ... This leads us to focus on the greater issues in life, the here...

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One can simply open the daily newspaper to find teenagers committing suicide or various crimes due to stress derived from family issues. ... He tries to provide her with the best life possible, just that some obstacle always prevents him from doing so. ... In addition to her lack of respect, Adele blames her parents for making her life miserable. She expresses her complaint, "I"m getting the frig out of here as soon as possible and starting my own life where there will be no such things as loads of kids and father who stutters his head off whenever he talks to anybody half important, embarrass...

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Appreciate is a word that you will understand the meaning of it and use it during your daily life after reading this book. ... He loves people and life. ... Morrie began the last class of his life with Mitch life's greatest lesson. ... He gives up what he loves, music, to create a life. In other words, he turns to material things after that because he figure's life is going too fast and he needs to create a life. ...

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Grace seeks a response of love that leads to the new life of discipleship. ... Henri Nouwen describes this process of taking ownership of grace in your own life. ... It is this divine forgiveness that I am called to practice in my daily life. ...

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Gabriel's character represents living a life of paralysis, one that is both without life and love. ... Miss Ivors approaches Gabriel and criticizes the literary column he writes in The Daily Express, saying, "I didn't think you were a West Briton." ... Joyce seeks to have the reader ask: what is there in a life that lacks intimacy and emotion? ... He realizes that he's been paralyzed throughout his life. ... In the final lines of "The Dead," Joyce illuminates Gabriel's inward change that causes him to examine both his own life, and human life in general, by complicating his...

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I ventured off into school and made friends with many people, Life was great. ... Being a hefty child, really scarred me for life. ... When asked what my "higher purpose- in life would be, It would be me setting out on a mission to help people get through personal rough times. ... The Archetype which reflects in me doesn't come from Walt Disney's movies, or a TV show but from my own life. ... I don't want people in five years to look back in dismay, but to stop and remember the outgoing personable girl I strive to be daily, even if life isn't going my way. ...

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Royce and I over these past years take the essential steps needed in our friendship by practicing loyalty on a daily basis where we both make an investment to strengthen the friendship. ... Whenever one is going through life problems they have encountered, he/she is ensured they have someone to turn to for comfort. With loyalty I've learned it is easy to be loyal when things are going good in life but the true test of loyalty is during times of trouble. ... We all have done bad things in our life before that our friends don't necessarily approve of, but having a friend with this non-...

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Marriage portrayed in the TV world Even though the marriages on TV are very different from marriages in real life, there are some similarities that are present, and these similarities are what tie the "non-realistic" to the "realistic," and make these kinds of shows popular and appealing. ... For about a year or so in real life, two or three in TV, one of the longest lasting relationships on the show was between Nicholas and Sharon Newman. ... They went on in the next couple of years and had another child, they had a child from before the marriage, and life seemed unstoppable for the two. ...

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Therefore, lust can accompany love at various times during a relationship or it can occur over the course of daily interaction. ... This can result from the strains of time -- the bond weakens due to strong differences or dissolves as the lovers themselves grow older -- meaning, for example, they begin to form conclusions about life and their basic preferences in terms of lifestyle change -- but in different directions. ...

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Katherine Clifton, wife of Jeffery Clifton, a cartographer, was the woman that he loved most in his life. ... Therefore, this reaction for his love of the desert is deep and nothing can compare to it, or that appeals to him in his life. ... He is a sapper; "he works as a snapper, defusing bombs, in daily and imminent danger of going up in flames (Scobie, p.94). ... Hana lives a life in which "People fall in love with her" (p.301) and Kip lives with his family in India finally without being destroyed by the war. ...

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Some may say, "well atoms mushed together and created life" but how were those atoms created? ... Many people loose their faith in Hashem when they loose a loved one, or something in their life goes terribly wrong, but that is the opposite of what we are supposed to do. ... It is hard to see the countless miracles Hashem performs daily, but it only takes one to open your eyes and appreciate the existence of our one and only Gd, our creator. ... You finally understand the meaning to life and the reason the world was created, and why we should serve Hashem. ...

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The Other Side of Heaven came from a real life story on the year 2001. ... In our daily lives, no matter how much we avoid the challenges we would experience in our life it would still appear and we will still have a hard time getting away from this challenges. ... But I guess I still didn't experience a total miracle in my life. ... They would definitely change their perspective about life. ... I read an article about his life and his story. ...

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No matter what happens in life or in death, love is a hard thing to let go. ... The water symbolizes the new, clean life that he is going to live from now on. ... Initially Henry is lustful, immature, and confused when it comes to life. ... As Henry becomes more involved with Catherine he finds his role, and a meaning to life. When Catherine visits Henry daily at the hospital as a nurse and tells him about the war, he tells her, "he does not want to read the paper- (Baker 70). ...

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Imagine living with someone for years, having a committed relationship between you and the other person, building a life together, acquiring things such as cars, houses, personal property. ... Well at least this scenario is only that, you can go on with your everyday life not having to worry about these types of things happening to you, but for literally millions of couple, this is what they worry about on a daily basis. ...

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Without Desdemona, Othello feels incomplete as he has no one to talk to about his daily adventures and Desdemona has no one as manly in her life. ... She proves to her father and the Duke that she was not fooled into loving her husband and she consciously made the choice to live with him and throw away her past life. ...

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The key of attachment parenting is to constantly join in the child's life. ... Too much concern would prevent the child to face challenges and autonomy in life, which helps children to grow as an independent individual. ... In addition, homeschooling provides an opportunity for parents to pass on their beliefs into the daily lives of children.  ...

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I have an ability to give the healthy qualities to my family and social life. ... Time and transitions both are working together in life. ... In human life, the age related changes call ageing. ... Old age people have to remain engaged in some activity till the end of life. ... But she is unaware of daily requirement for different nutrients. ...

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1 An Absent Father The impact of a fatherless home has consequences that sometimes cannot be realized until much later in life. ... Because of this understanding he will lead a life in which hypocrisy and guilt will be the chains that bind him. ... The Puritan view stressed rules and regulations with regard to leading a successful "religious" life. ... The absence of a father shapes the thoughts and beliefs of one's life as negatively as the presence of a father would influence them positively. ...

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From this current cultural climate we see the struggle for personal authenticity and this personal authenticity requires the integration of life and death. ... These labels help to create the spirit of abstraction and there is nothing more evident of the spirit of abstraction then the technology that encompasses our daily lives. ... The Zoroastrians have a great phrase that exemplifies what it is to live a virtuous life, and it goes like this: "good words, good thoughts, and good deeds" from this definition we see that being virtuous is a combination of ideology and behaviour because to b...

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My excitement for this game is so astounding that I just can't help but to work hard daily to get the opportunity to go where I'm distant to go. ... This place levels your head and personally while I'm there on the field it makes me forget the stressful things that are going on in my life for the moment. ... I sometimes still dream about that field and certain defining moments that changed my life. ...

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In the opening prologue we are told that the pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life, and so from this early moment a sense of doom is cast upon Romeo and Juliet. ... There is a strong sense of fortune throughout the play and in Elisabethan times this would have been similar to the audiences daily lives, as most would have strongly believed in fortune and destiny. ...

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