"I have firmly and clearly expressed regret and taken responsibility for my words".
I had firmly positioned them outside my own psyche as two partially formed independent external identities whose words had weight and whose direction had meaning.
I had firmly resisted a Snickers bar at a rest stop, knowing I would regret it if I showed up even partly full.
This original chunk of music eventually became part of the second movement of the completed symphony; as Max says, the music started "budding and putting out shoots, and although I had firmly drawn a final double bar-line, it was reaching out across this, suggesting transformations beyond the confines of a single movement".
I therefore earnestly beseech your p53 Lordship to judge with all the severity you deem proper and with your usual wisdom, whether there is any hope of my being of any use, and not to dread to tell me so, if you think there is none; for I have firmly resolved, if allowed, to consider you in all things as a tutor and a father.
After college, I had firmly established myself in a good career, but I felt something was missing.
When I meditate three times in a day, I try to have at least one session be a "clear mind" session (focusing on letting go of thoughts), but I have firmly told myself there is no wrong way.
In the very instant, sitting in the middle of everything, I felt the magic of inhaling the present knowing that is the only moment that I have firmly in my grasp.
If there was one idea I had firmly committed in my mind before arriving in Chile, it was this: the people in the country agreed that the Pinochet dictatorship was bad.
(I'm partial to the Calm app's "Foggy Stream" scene, which has enough birds chirping and water running to help keep my mind on the meditation rather than all my other thoughts). When I meditate three times in a day, I try to have at least one session be a "clear mind" session (focusing on letting go of thoughts), but I have firmly told myself there is no wrong way.
