![Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]](/assets/img/quote-photos/ah-but-life-is-like-that-it-does-not-permit-you-to-arrange-and-order-it-as-you.jpg)
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Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. Charles Caleb Colton
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We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.
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We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.
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Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.
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life-is-like analogies life-is
Life is like an analogy. Aaron Allston
life-is-like enchantment rage
My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall. Arthur Symons
life-is-like violin life-is
Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along E. M. Forster
life-is-like sometimes odd
Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it Arthur Golden
life-is-like lasts forgotten
My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer. Carrie Fisher
life-is-like bathroom get-up
Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. Garry Trudeau
life-is-like honey licking
Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn Holly Black
life-is-like scripts life-is
Life is like a B-picture script. Kirk Douglas
life-is-like life-is asks
She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry. Louis Untermeyer
doe authorship command
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
doe helping praying
If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.
doe christ please
If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you.
doe convinced knows
I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe. Aiden Wilson Tozer
doe way holy
Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.
doe easy hard
God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.
doe lines matter
But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle? Chris Bohjalian
doe absence
Absence of failure does not constitute success. Chris Alexander
doe happy-endings
A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending. Chita Rivera