Chuffed Def Quotes & Sayings

When you ask for what you need and receive what people and the world have to give, you reduce stress and gain energy. ~Amanda Owen — Amanda Owen

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love. — John Piper

I see myself starring in and producing major feature films. — Amy Weber

Do you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a big audience, but seems awkward in groups and maladroit at small talk? Who has to be dragged to parties and then needs the rest of the day to recuperate? Who growls or scowls or grunts or winces when accosted with pleasantries by people who are just trying to be nice?
If so, do you tell this person he is "too serious," or ask if he is okay? Regard him as aloof, arrogant, rude? Redouble your efforts to draw him out?
If you answered yes to these questions, chances are that you have an introvert on your hands - and that you aren't caring for him properly. — Jon Rauch

Your disrespect for me is apparent. You never respected me when I think about it and you never liked me. But I'm the parent and you're the child and it is not your job to love me the way I love you. My love for you is unconditional and no matter what you decide in your life I will love you. Doesn't mean I have to like it, but I will always love you. Love, Dad — Janet Mock

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies. — B.F. Skinner

Men are victims of their own impulses. — Gloria Steinem

After a while, when she has forgotten him a little, when she realizes that her life and her are more to her than any man, she will tell me about it. — Florence Converse

Unless the consequence is 'death by firing squad' in my opinion, you do have a choice, and when you choose to do something as opposed to have to do it, you feel so much more motivated and inspired to do it. — Malti Bhojwani

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change. — Adam Johnson