Invitations Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson, A. A. Milne, Joshua Oppenheimer, Gerald Stern, Curtis Stone, Jason Fulford and many others.
The essence of wisdom, from a practical standpoint, is pausing long enough to look at our lives-invitations, opportunities, relationships-from God’s perspective. And then acting on it
A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.
I’d extend an invitation to Lisbeth Salander. She would definitely shake the party up and get it started. I think she is hands down one of the most original, innovative, kickass female fictional characters ever.
Come with me.” “Come with you? To Pandemonium? To the Void? And here I thought that my invitation to summer in New Jersey was the worst I had ever received.
I moistened my lips. His gaze fixed on them. I think I stopped breathing. He jerked so sharply away that his long dark coat sliced air, and turned his back to me. “Was that an invitation, Ms.Lane?” “If it was?” I asked, astonishing myself. What did I think I was doing? “I don’t do hypotheticals. Little girl.
I have been challenged by the concept of meditation … I decided recently to accept the invitation of a friend to experience the sheer silence of meditation-undirected prayer. … I had before only sensed intellectually … But by going deep into prayer I could almost feel it.
Socrates had no system to teach. Throughout, his philosophy was a spiritual exercise, an invitation to a new way of life, active reflection, and living consciousness.
Satsang is the invitation to step into the fire of self-discovery. ThisВ fire will not burn you, it will burn only what you are not.
Gluttony and satiety in food produce defiled lust, while free association with women enflames the fire of lusts … At the time of struggle with defilement, punish your thoughts with lack of nourishment, so that you will think not of defilements, but of hunger, and reject the invitation to go visiting.
Hispanics are the fastest-growing evangelical group in the country right now, an important constituency. But Trump‘s views, especially his views on immigration, did not exactly go over well with this faith constituency. Rev. Rodriguez told me that Trump’s invitation created something of a stir in his world.
As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December‘s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.
You don’t need an invitation to your own life.
Christianity did not begin with a confession. It began with an invitation into friendship, into creating a new community, into forming relationships based on love and service.
I like my use of light to be openly situational in the sense that there is no invitation to meditate, to contemplate.
Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.
To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation.
My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice
My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice
The truly free man is he who can decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection – not an invitation for hypnosis.
Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.
I’ve been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is reasonably successful or published. I get invitations to go to all sorts of strange countries where I would mostly be by myself and just meet other people there, instead of having travelling companions.
Minus my relationship with Kennedy, I had no automatic invitation to Greek Parties or events, though Chaz and Erin could invite me to some stuff since I fell under the heading of acceptable things to bring to any party: alcohol and girls. Awesome. I’d gone from independent girlfriend to party paraphernalia.
The nation’s non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation‘s right and every good government‘s duty.
The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change.
Focusing upon the positive by counting your blessings, or using positive affirmations in the fertile time before you fall asleep is an invitation to both your subconscious mind and your pre-conscious mind to use your dreams as a way to show you insights, solutions and new creative ideas.
There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.
It’s one of the reasons [Vladimir Putin invitation to U.S] why 50 national security officials who served in Republican information – in administrations have said that Donald [Trump] is unfit to be the commander- in-chief. It’s comments like that that really worry people who understand the threats that we face.
True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.
Briefs need limitations and invitations
The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.
Beware of “the real world“. A speaker‘s apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions.
I have never been any place where I was not first invited. And upon invitation, if I feel that there is potential for making some contribution to humanity, I will comply in spite of being tired.
The inner self of every human waits patiently until we are ready to discover it; then it extends an invitation to enter the luminous mystery of existence in which all things are created, nurtured, and renewed. In the presence of this mystery, we not only heal ourselves, we heal the world.
EITC is an invitation to fraud.
I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever ‘fixed’ at the Philadelphia Convention… To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]
Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting‘s so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced.
Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.
It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them back. Often they retaliate by inviting you again, and you must then extend another invitation. Back and forth you go, like Ping-Pong balls, and what you end up with is called social life.
I turn down invitations to do things for money. I have almost no interest in making money. Actually, I’ve acquired a fair amount of money that I will never live to spend. So earning money, in a way, depresses me, because I feel it’s just piling up.
We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.
She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.
I’ve learned: When you get older, who cares? I don’t mince words, I don’t hold back. What are you gonna do to me? Fire me? It’s been done. Threaten to commit suicide? Done. Take away my show? Done! Not invite to me to the Vanity Fair party? I’ve never been invited! If I ever saw the invitation, I’d use it as toilet paper.
The saints are like the stars. In his providence Christ conceals them in a hidden place that they may not shine before others when they might wish to do so. Yet they are always ready to exchange the quiet of contemplation for the works of mercy as soon as they perceive in their heart the invitation of Christ.
I have great respect for press freedoms. At the same time, however, a politician also has the freedom to decide whether he or she will accept an invitation to appear on a show or not.
Unlike other countries, it was founded on written proclamations. America is an ideal as well as a republic. Its documents are open to revisions. They’re works in progress. There’s an invitation to participate.
It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.
When you’re the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you’re basically saying, “I’m right, and everyone else is wrong.” That’s a very unpleasant position to be in. It’s at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked.
The Gospel is a declaration of something totally finished apart from our agreement or vote. Inside that declaration is an ongoing and relentless invitation to deepening relationship but any lack of belief or participation on our part has no power to negate the accomplished truth of that declaration.
Problems are invitations. They allow us to have encounters and experiences that enable us to discover who God is for us.
Indeed, I did not truly “belong” to any school, order, intellectual camaraderie or clique; I did not apply for admission to any of them, let alone did much to deserve an invitation; nor would I be listed by any of them – at least listed unqualifiedly – as “one of us”.
I do conventions sometimes every other weekend. Whenever I have time, and it’s not too far away. I get a lot of invitations (to appear at conventions) in other countries and I have to turn them down.
I came first to America in 1977 at the invitation of a man who wanted to make my life story into a musical. But my agent said it was not to be and it was never done. So I went back, but I’d seen New York, and I wanted to live there. Because everybody talks to you in the street. See, nobody talks to you in England.