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gratitude doors silence
When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence. C. S. Lewis
gratitude grateful luxury
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. [and therefore not appreciate it fully or be grateful for it every moment.] Charlie Chaplin
gratitude grateful opportunity
I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me. Charles Dickens
gratitude circles fire
Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death. Charles Caleb Colton
gratitude men serenity
The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.
gratitude dross made
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.
gratitude revenge punctual
Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
gratitude revenge games
An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude
gratitude powerful yield
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
grows ifs
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
grows
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down. Ben Okri
grows picks
We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both. Diane Keaton
grows
To boldly grow where no one has groan before. David Hobson
grows people
She really grows on people after they get to know her personality. Chris Johnson
grows increase labor movement resources standard unless words
unless the labor movement grows to increase workers' standard of living, that has got to be our fundamental purpose. We have to put the resources where the words are. Bruce Raynor
grows terrified
As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it. Bear Grylls
grows ideals
Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them. Albert Schweitzer
grows happen mean
There are things that happen to any young girl. But because she grows up, it doesn't mean she can't be competitive on an international level.