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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.
long healthy healthy-life
In a long and healthy life, which is what most of us have, there is plenty of time. Carol Shields
long lucky wonderful
I loved doing 'Countdown.' I now consider that I was very, very lucky - not just because it was such a wonderful show to do, but because it lasted for so long. Carol Vorderman
long battle trying
There's gonna be good times and bad times. When the good times come you got to ride it as long as you can. And when the bad times come you got to battle and try to get out of there as soon as you can. Carlos Delgado
long care ceo
As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term. Carlos Ghosn
long periods
I've often stopped working for long periods. Carl Andre
long desire beloved
Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.
long feelings promise
The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry.
long speak
Who are you?' One who has waited long for you to speak.
long twenties syllables
They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.
doe should sensible
She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.
doe
One does not arrest Voltaire. Charles de Gaulle
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 attention loops
Anything that does not belong where it is, is an "open loop" pulling on your attention. David Allen
doe sense-of-humor persons
Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does. David Rakoff
doe mets accomplished
No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. Jane Austen
doe widows remarriage
The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
doe sincerity emma
My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?
doe action futility
The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. - Janette Turner Hospital