Sentences with phrase «given something to live»

The more nights they spent together, the more Brandy felt that life had given her something to live for.

He's always felt second best, and tries to give himself something to live for by being bad.

Such promises provide incentives for employees and give them something to live up to.

That gives me something to live towards, because it's a lot.

Not exact matches

«I don't want to give the package to my daughter and something happens, and I would regret it for the rest of my life,» he told local station KXAN.

«I've got to really inspire people to give their lives to something greater that are interested in legacy and making history as one of the greatest world problems is solved,» says Harrison.

Perhaps your true passion in life is something you've simply never given yourself a chance to explore.

As a professional, you can only be helping out one client at any moment of the day, and since you never get to live the same day twice, you're giving away something more valuable by persisting with a client who doesn't take your advice.

Editas's website gives you a sense of the mission and zeal it brings to its work: «There are few times in our lives when science astonishes us — when we suddenly may be able to do something that once seemed out of reach.

The mindset of today's 20 and early 30 - somethings have given rise to human - centered technologies that are transforming the way we live and work.

That said, I would only give a loan to an employee who is in good standing and who has longevity on the job, and the money has to be for something that is truly a life - would - be-difficult emergency.

Given that cancer is something people tend to get later in life, an upcoming rise in its incidence should come as no surprise to anyone.

«Producing something important, gaining respect for it, feeling a sense of control over your life, feeling a connection to other people — that gives people a real sense of passion,» Newport says.

For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure to try to be something that you're not, to live your life as an honest and compassionate person, to contribute in some way.»

No doubt everyone in your life is giving you plenty of well - meaning baby name suggestions, but you probably want to find a name that really means something to you.

In the end, Cindy Stowell played for something larger than a single life: She played to give others hope.

Having been overweight for more than half my life, and having struggled with body image issues throughout the second half, I found myself searching for something that would give me the body I so longed for and the confidence to go with it.

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You don't have the pressure to create active income because you're living off your passive, but at the same time you are still growing, moving forward, and giving something to society.

The story of his previous startup, Mako Surgical, could be a blockbuster movie («RoboDoc») about a dreamer from Hollywood (Florida) living hand - to - mouth, overcoming all odds to build something the experts said was impossible: A futuristic robot that gave surgeons the real - time «feel» of flesh, sinew and bone.

Give him some credit for this... he's trying to figure out how to let what he believes play out in real life — something we all do on a daily basis.

This is what we're made for: We're made to live for something bigger than ourselves, we're made to give ourselves for others.

Me personally would like to believe so and I do.If there is not god life is pretty pathetic if your think deeply about it.Theres always going to be someone who says no this is how something is or this happened exactly like this I know for sure (ha ok)... On another note instead of acting like you really do know everything maybe broaden your horizon and try church or read the bible and give God a chance.

OK, Tom, fine, I have to assume then that God can give me a dream about something in your life?

Our lives are so short compared to the age of the universe, we need an eternal purpose to give our lives meaning... So, the only way I see to do that is to serve the purpose of something eternal, namely God.

I had to make a choice to either cave in and just give up on life, or to press in and overcome, and I chose — probably partly because of my personality, but a lot of it just being God in me — that I was determined I was going to make it through and come out on the other side and do something.

Part of what you're doing in Lent is giving up something that's desirous in your heart so that you might in a very real way begin to get your mind around Christ giving up His life for us.

When I was 15, I «gave my life to Christ» — not in a church, but alone, in my room, after months of reading and thinking and looking for purpose and meaning and direction and something bigger than the depressing and lonely life I seemed to be stuck with — and I expected to find those things.

And as though that was not enough, by attending Mass we are given something... and not just anything... we are given the opportunity to receive the bread of life... the body and blood of Jesus, the Son of God.

We want to help people not make the same mistakes we did, and we want to give them a purpose to live for something greater than themselves.

It really takes that miracle of something more, something outside of us to transform human life and give it true depth.

Whether standing over the piano mercilessly coaxing a budding prodigy or arguing at the kitchen table over how many green beans are enough, these mothers gave their kids something to live for, strive for, react against; struggle with and grow away from.

Perhaps I am deluded to believe in an all — powerful benevolent God, but it's the best explanation I can think of for the life experiences I have had and rationally, for that reason unless and until something happens or someone shows me something to give my objective and indefatigable evidence to the contrary, I can't sanely not believe.

But doesn't this have something to do with love... the love I live in and am given, and the love I give?

Advice given in this way has something of an Old Testament ring about it, even if it is true that the law of the Lord is perfect and that it brings life to the soul.

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven?

Self - contempt is not redeemed by self - esteem, but only by mercy and love, which give us the «courage to make definitive decisions indispensable for growth, and in order to achieve something great in life, in particular, to cause love to mature in all its beauty» [6], in a truly feminine woman.

Despite himself, something that was living in him and through him gave the blessing to the son for whom it was suited; note that in doing so he metaphorically sacrificed his favorite son!

But if life is destroyed, God gave us brilliant men and women of science to use that tragedy and turn it into something beneficial for society.

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

It seeks to add to the essentially negative claim made by atheism («there is no God») something much more positive; something to give life meaning and hope.

They want to give themselves to something beyond a sort of «white bread» world that they live in, but need to see that that «something» is tangible, that it will work.

If something like ISIS / ISIL were to overrun much of North America, would we be willing to give up our lives for the sake of a gospel so fixated on the self and its needs?

once we decide to live in the camp of the evil one, we give up the rights given to us by God and give them away for what we feel is something better.

At the very moment of giving [we] find ourselves expressing gratitude for something new and better that [we] have been given... Whether this gratuitousness is explicitly referred back to God or remains unidentified, it is clear that in aiding the poor one receives back from them meaning for one's life.13

When Santorum couldn't admit he said he didn't want to improve black people's lives by giving them other people's money, even though the tape recording, taken together with the context of what he was saying, clearly shows that he said black, then that's dishonesty, that's lying, something that his christian faith should have informed him about.

Maybe it gives them hope to know that one day after this messy life there's something far greater waiting for them.

Ultimately, Carrey realizes that you simply can not live your life just giving to everyone who asks something of you.

When a group of parents in a community of faith work together to educate their children in the life of faith, this gives members of each family something in common with other families.

You're giving life and birth to something.