What you think about expands. If your thoughts are centered on what's missing, then what's missing, by definition, will have to expand.
I happen to be immature, undisciplined, and self-centered, pretty much a little boy in a man's body, although I'd appreciate it if you didn't quote me on that. -Bobby Tom
There are lawyers who believe in client-centered representation and who are dedicated on the same level I feel I was dedicated.
My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches.
This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.
If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.
I think not having a routine is what keeps me centered. I only have a routine when I am working.
I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.
Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people.
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life.
Kauai is kind of my place where I go to get centered. It's always my place to come back and feel normal again.
I left Chandigarh more than 30 years ago. I studied at Carmel Convent and we used to live in Sector 9. My fondest memories are all centered around this city!
Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.
The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government.
The themes I sing about tend to be centered on love, but in the most total, general way 360 degrees of love.
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.
Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.
Music really helps me stay centered. I can listen to music and forget about any issue that I have.
Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.
I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.
Simpler companies are user centered. They adapt to the needs of day-to-day decision makers.
We can endure almost anything if we are centered, if we have some focus in our life. You can endure if you have an anchor.
I think I'm a better collaborator, in seeing the bigger picture and trying to just help that, and not be so self-centered in whatever my task is, which is being an actor.
Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life?
I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.
Anyone knows that my music isn't just centered around sex. It's thought-evoking and feeling-evoking.
As for my ideal type, I like girls who don't have powerful presence, and not self-centered. I'd like her to have a light skin, and a calm personality.
I think it's so fun that my art isn't centered in one sound or rooted in one lane or whatever. It's just the Bree lane.
Throughout the day remind yourself that you are moving through eternity. Be focused. Be centered. Be in the now. Know what is going on in the world. Read a newspaper once in a while.
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
What I need in order to stay creative and centered is a certain amount of distance from the maddening crowd. You cease to be your best self if you're running too fast.
We all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony, and balance. Whether or not we believe in the existence of the soul, we've all experienced times in which we're fully connected with ourselves.
It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.
I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.
I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.
I hesitated before buying a Kindle. I wasn't worried that the digital reader would ruin literature as we know it. Rather, my concern centered on using an electronic device in the bathtub.
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued.
Place your hopes in the mercy of God and the merits of our Redeemer; say often, looking at the crucifix: There are centered all my hopes.
I don't mind being artificial sometimes, because I like veiling myself. I mean, I'm not honest or sincere: I am self-centered and narcissistic. I just want to be this entity.
And so I tell you this: be now and forever centered upon your Self. Look to see what you are being, doing, and having in any given moment, not what's going on with another.
I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
With my schedule, I don't have much time to get to yoga classes, but I do keep a mat in my trailer and practice for a few minutes most days. It keeps me centered.
I rely on poetry or literature to keep me centered before I go onstage because it reminds me to be present.
I don't want to get into being too hockey centered, but I just felt like the late 70's and 80's into the 90's was the right time period to tell the story.
Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.
If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs of state.
Kauai is kind of my place where I go to get centered. Its always my place to come back and feel normal again.
In lots of ways, I've been trying to tell stories this way since I started writing plays: a female-centered story with queer, Latinx gaze.
I can be stressed, or tired, and I can go into a meditation and it all just flows off of me. I'll come out of it refreshed and centered and that's how I'll feel and it'll carry through the day.
I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've told a lot of stories about young people, and I always feel there's hope.
I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.
We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.
Obamacare has eliminated choices for millions of families, suffocated patient-centered medical innovation, and moved the United States closer to European-style centralized planning.
When I feel connected, mind-body and spirit, I feel centered.
I do think that there is a hunger in the land for a vision of confessional Christianity that is robust, God-centered, tough-minded, able to address today and tomorrow and the next day, and comprehensive.
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