quote by Thomas Merton

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

— Thomas Merton

Empowering Twist quotations

People tell me judge not lest ye be judged.

I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like satan

Twist quote Don't get it twisted. It takes many long, restless nights to be an overnight suc
Don't get it twisted. It takes many long, restless nights to be an overnight success.
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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity.

Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Don't get bitter and twisted and nasty by life.

You may have been wronged or cheated on; two wrongs never make a right. Instead learn your mistakes and learn your lessons. Remain strong with your head held high.

Love doesn't hurt you. A person that doesn't know how to love hurts you. Don't get it twisted.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

Prayer is not trying to twist God’s arm to make Him do something.

Prayer is receiving by faith what He has already done!

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same.

Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

It is pointless to get your knickers in a twist if a certain person fails to react the way you want. It is best to avoid people and situations that you know drive you crazy. Remember to vote with your feet. If a situation is untenable or unchangeable, walk away.

I say 'cuz' around Bloods, and I say 'blood' around Crips.

..I'm twisted. Got Mary, got Lucy, got Molly: that's wifey, girlfriend and mistress.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

In my twisted brain, I truly believe that nobody ever really dies, as long as the people that he or she touched continue to spread their legacy. I miss Eddie Guerrero. Eddie Guerrero was a great man. So right now, I don't want to hear 'CM Punk', you know the name I wanna hear.

Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.

Life has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

It’s the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be no depth, no substance.

Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.

If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.

I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.

The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens.

..because the word 'people,' by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicon graphical acrobatics, has been turned and twisted to mean all who were shrewd and wise enough to have themselves born boys instead of girls, or who took the trouble to be born white instead of black.

Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the love, desire, respect, and need women also feel for men. Always man-hating is shadowed by its milder, more diplomatic and doubtful twin, ambivalence.

Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.

Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you want to be my friend. Present results clearly and honestly. If something isn't working - those reviewing results need to know.

As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial.

My life and his were twisted into a single strand.

Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty;

we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is hung.

Im boyish with a feminine twist. I definitely gravitate toward oversized things like shirts and jackets. I like a good trouser, but then I might mix it up with something more feminine, like a pointy boot or pumps.

I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.