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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.
sensation tells
Sensation tell us a thing is.Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.Feeling tells us what this thing is to us. Carl Gustav Jung
sensation struck unfair
It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well. Francis Spufford
sensational picks
Everybody picks up on the sensational things, but no one really gets it. GG Allin
sensational simplification
The simplification of anything is always sensational. Gilbert K. Chesterton
sensations
She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it. Michael Cunningham
sensational rigged
Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational. Norma Shearer
sensations
I was an overnight sensation. Elvis Presley
sensational series
It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own. Robert Wagner
sensations
I'm not a success, I'm a sensation. Van Cliburn
unusual
Crispin Glover is unusual, but not as unusual as he sometimes presents himself. We got along nicely. Thomas F. Wilson
unusual-things world comedy
In the world of comedy, having a partner is not the most unusual thing. Bobby Farrelly
unusual paint british
It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. David Hockney
unusual
I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach. Sylvia Mathews Burwell
unusual
There is no such thing as an unusual item,
unusually
My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her. Dan Hill
unusual wrote
I wrote 'white, back of wing.' It was unusual enough that I wrote it down.
unusual
There's nothing unusual about love. Charles Bukowski
unusual
It is kind of an unusual thing to see happen.