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motivational things-in-life wish
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities. Charles Dickens
motivational best-friend friendship
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. Charles Caleb Colton
motivation joy novelty
Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life. Charles Stross
motivational strength fear
It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. Charles Spurgeon
motivation flower inspiration
If our faith can live without God, it is not divinely created. If God had begotten it, it would wait upon Him as the flowers wait upon the dew.
motivational trials teach
Trials teach us what we are.
motivational memories real
The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present. Alan Watts
motivational men often-is
The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity.
motivational war heart
If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or nonhuman, we must first come to terms with the minority wand the enemy in ourselves and in our own hearts, for the rascal is there as much as anywhere in the 'external' world - especially when you realize that the world outside your skin is as much yourself as the world inside.
character eye names
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.
character interesting long
"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
character boys thinking
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
character half tongue
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.
character abuse criticism
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
character men support
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
character suffering peculiar
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.
character water taste
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.
character long aging
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
purpose hell christ
The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ. Aiden Wilson Tozer
purpose use language
It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind. Chinua Achebe
purpose assumption
We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings. David Kim
purpose kind
On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.
purpose slave
Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves. David Graeber
purpose trends advertising
Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You." Dave Barry
purpose growing lost
But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose. Mark Cuban
purpose miserable persons
Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for. Charles L. Allen
purpose strange comedy
Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function. Bo Burnham