Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is because oth...ers have raised us up. If, as adults, we can lay claim to competence and compassion, it only means that other human beings have been willing and enabled to commit their competence and compassion to us--through infancy, childhood, and adolescence, right up to this very moment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away; it is better for you to enter life maimed or lame t...han to have two hands or two feet and to be thrown into the eternal fire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In healthy families, children discover (through being listened to) that what they have to say is important and that their experien...ces and ideas (and they themselves) have worth. They are encouraged to think for themselves, express opinions, and make decisions for themselves. Parents supporting them in standing on their own two feet and doing what they think is right. Trusting and gaining confidence in themselves, they develop an inner locus of control.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As he walks away on his own two feet--the toddler's body-mind has reached its moment of perfection. The world is his and he the mi...ghty conqueror of all he beholds.... As long as mother sticks around in the wings, the mighty acrobat confidently performs his trick of twirling in circles, walking on tiptoe, jumping, climbing, staring, naming. He is joyous, filled with his grandeur and wondrous omnipotence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them--business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each... boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But I can assure my readers that Walden has a reasonably tight bottom at a not unreasonable, though at an unusual, depth. I fathom...ed it easily with a cod-line and a stone weighing about a pound and a half, and could tell accurately when the stone left the bottom, by having to pull so much harder before the water got underneath to help me. The greatest depth was exactly one hundred and two feet; to which may be added the five feet which it has risen since, making one hundred and seven. This is a remarkable depth for so small an area; yet not an inch of it can be spared by the imagination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love sits enthroned in Clara's eyes, The Graces play her lips around,... And in her cheeks the tendrest dyes Of lilly mixed with rose are found. Where charms so irresistless throng What mortal heart can try resistance? But ah! her nose is two feet long, And bids our passions keep their distance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For love ... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two t...ails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together that you cannot separate them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When our two souls stand up erect and strong, Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,... Until the lengthening wings break into fireLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »