Sentences with phrase «of life ambitions»

We can not expect them to abandon their quality of life ambitions.

And it became sort of my life ambition and really like a passion, that no mother should have to not be able to reach her goal with breastfeeding.

Not exact matches

Not cries out of pity but out of joy, pride and sadness at the lost lives, broken families and a broken system but also at the hope, ambition and remorse that I witnessed.

A new study, forthcoming in the Journal of Applied Psychology, sheds some light on the connection between ambition and the good life.

In Virginia, at least, the credit market is atomized; its decisions are subject to the biases and whims that rule the lives of real men and women, to ambitions and institutional prerogatives that set the agenda at the office.

«They were willing to risk their health and personal life in pursuit of their ambition, and tended to cope with their stress by venting to others.»

All too often, we let our ambition and desire get in the way of enjoying life today, which will always provide anxiety and stress to some degree.

Seminars on work - life balance that use terms like «biological clock» and «mompreneur» are tired clichés at women's conferences, but increasingly it's not just working women who are feeling the pressures of having plenty of ambition and money, but no time.

People younger than 30 — typically without children or spouses of their own — have the energy, ambition and bandwidth to make career or entrepreneurial choices which may be too scary later in life.

It's the kind of confidence and ambition that's hard to compromise and should be brought into your dating life.

A company called OneWeb, backed by Virgin's Branson and founded by Greg Wyler, has similar ambitions: «OneWeb's mission is to bring the entire world online to improve quality of life and spur economic and national development where it's needed most,» Wyler has said.

In the process, he and Morgan Stanley are becoming the face of what may be Wall Street's future: highly profitable, to be sure, but with fewer of the grand ambitions or larger - than - life personalities that have always characterized the place.

They think we're not capable of bringing the same optimism, ambition and co-operation to real - life problems because there's something magical about games not being real that makes us better.

Yesterday one wag suggested Harper didn't actually need to deliver a speech - of - his - life, and that his ambition should be more modest: «He needs to make the generic case he would make to any audience — economy and trade — and the narrower case that works best with Conservatives — Wheat Board, long - gun registry, resource exports, crime,» this fellow wrote.

Hatred is what they certainly project, not love for the embryos, which is a piece of nonsense no one could experience, but hatred, a virulent hatred for an unnamed object... Their hatred is directed against human beings as such, against the mind, against reason, against ambition, against success, against love, against any value that brings happiness to human life.

I think it had been my ambition throughout much of my life to accumulate a collection of books in the ideal,....

The first wife appears bright and put together, the other two so - so, but overall they seem happy and the kids appear to have goals for their lives and have ambition outside of having babies and giving birth.

Finding the balance between ambition and contentment isn't easy, but it's part of living with big dreams.»

I think it had been my ambition throughout much of my life to accumulate a collection of books in the ideal, grandly compendious style of the personal libraries assembled by the most literate of prosperous Victorian gentlemen.

Christ gathers up for the life of tomorrow our stifled ambitions, our inadequate understandings, our uncompleted or clumsy but sincere endeavours.

When they face their fellows they are not thinking primarily about what they can get out of them and, as for life as a whole, their ambition is to be gentlemen, as George Bernard Shaw has defined one — a man who tries, in one form or another, to put more into life than he takes out.

As the years went on, Richard seemed to grow ever more knowledgeable, poised, intellectually many - sided, and well informed about the vast array of conflicts, arguments, clashing ambitions, and hidden purposes that mark our national civic life.

When hoping for no more incursions into First - Amendment rights is the height of our ambition, we live in a day of small things, methinks.

They are choosing their selfish ambitions over the life of a child and calling it justified homicide.

When, however, one turns to those great lives which have been the glory of the Christian movement, it is plain that they are handling ambition in another way altogether.

A life obsessed with personal ambition or level of income leaves no room for ministry in the workplace.

That the life of selfish ambition, the struggle for autonomy, acquisition, and success, and attachment to finite goods lead in the end to misery, conflict, guilt, despair, boredom, and frustration.

The sacrifice of innocent life on the altar of ambition comes in a thousand forms.

He who is ready to surrender his hopes, ambitions, and life itself, for the love of God and his fellowmen, no longer fears death and the end of human existence, for that self - centered concern which wants to cling on to life beyond its appointed span, and seeks to bring it back again in some supernatural realm, has already died.

He finds that though he has put an end (as he thought) to the personal ambitions which appeared to make life interesting, to his surprise there is welling up within him a new source of life.

We are called to live fully, abundantly, and honestly in this world... where joy and frustration and ambition and disappointment are all part of what it means to be alive.

To oversee the work they tapped Jackson, chief calligrapher for the queen of England, whose life ambition was to produce a handwritten Bible.

Drawing from Hopkins to Waugh, Mackay Brown to Kierkegaard, as well as the Fathers of the Church, faith is strengthened, understanding deepened and a real, living relationship with Christ becomes a truly achievable ambition.

Ambition to succeed and the desire for recognition and prestige take distinctive forms in the life of the scientist.

Little by little, Tolstoy came to the settled conviction — he says it took him two years to arrive there — that his trouble had not been with life in general, not with the common life of common men, but with the life of the upper, intellectual, artistic classes, the life which he had personally always led, the cerebral life, the life of conventionality, artificiality, and personal ambition.

A man who is utterly self - contained and whose chief ambition is to be «self - existent» and hence to exist without dependence upon relationships of any sort, is a man whom we regard as an unpleasant if not vicious specimen of the race; and it is odd that deity has been regarded, and this even in Christian circles, as more like such a self - contained human being rather than as like a man who in every area of his life is open to relationships and whose very existence is rich in the possibility of endless adaptations to new circumstances.

For example, the new birth may be away from religion into incredulity; or it may be from moral scrupulosity into freedom and license; or it may be produced by the irruption into the individual's life of some new stimulus or passion, such as love, ambition, cupidity, revenge, or patriotic devotion.

While Churchill was a great orator, his words meant much back in those days but how soon does history tend to overlook such orations,,, For is it not a more wiser ambition to live freely among all religious persuasions and cling ever gently upon one's own independent literacies even though self - indulgence of the religious socialisms may give rises toward individualized dementia?

Perhaps, too, it is an example of typical Oriental lack of ambition and contentment with life.

Her father Peter said his daughter, who had ambitions of becoming a veterinary nurse, was «full of life» and «always happy».

Jeremy McCarter, who co-authored Hamilton, describes it as «the music of ambition, the soundtrack of defiance», suggesting it is the perfect genre for a musical about the American Revolution and the life of Hamilton.

From this perspective one approaches life motivated, not by «selfish ambition or conceit,» but by a concern that «looks... to the interests of others.»

Either we are willing to LET GO of our own ways, desires, lusts, ambitions, instincts, thoughts and trade that in for A LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS and HIS HOLINESS or we are willing to LET GO of His Holiness, His Salvation, His Sacrifice, HIs Redemption, His Sanction to continue on in our own way, our own lives, our own thoughts, our own lusts, our own ambitions.

-- «Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.»

Your education or lack of it, your tastes and prejudices and fears and status or ambitions, your age or sex or color or height or marital status or income bracket are all things which may be offered to God, after you have presented your bodies as a living sacrifice.

But The Life of Pi also asks to be the latest in the long line of grand tales about India, novels that seek to capture what Martel himself calls «the rich, noisy, functioning madness» of the place, and a great deal of the novel's flaws rest in that ambition.

For the Christian church this is a season of distress and adjustment: distress because the ambition of «Christianizing» the world is not fulfilled, and adjustment because its centuries - old life - view and world - view have become obsolete and new ones have to constructed.

It was hard to find any spark of life or ambition in him.

For Plato, the philosophical life enables a man to leave behind the imperfections of politics» with its harsh necessities, imperatives of self «defense, worldly ambition, violence, and craving for power» to pursue the higher justice supposedly embodied in rational reflection.

This culture, our culture, undermines the foundation of the intellectual life, which is love's desire, love's poverty, and love's ambition.