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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
gratitude revenge punctual
Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude Charles Caleb Colton
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 Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
brother father years
There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years. Carol Vorderman
brother husband character
At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. C. S. Lewis
brother thinking way
I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers. Agnes Varda
brother men feet
I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men. Aaron Staton
brother cutting college
My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails. Alan King
brother humble home
My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world - the ... affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other. Charlotte Bronte
brother men endurance
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. Charles Dickens
brother integrity simple
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed. Charles Caleb Colton
brother wine yield
We must meditate, brothers. These grapes will yield no wine we tread upon it. Charles Spurgeon
children
I never thought I was going to have children. I just thought after 45, that was it. Carol Leifer
children environment failing
We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment. Carol Moseley Braun
children instant bounds
Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that? Carol Vorderman
children my-children
I'm very pleased how my children have turned out. Carol Vorderman
children mean waiting
If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister! Carlos Mencia
children ignorance strange
Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency Carlos Fuentes
children two complaining
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive? Carlos Fuentes
children effort matter
The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them. Carlos Castaneda
children
I never stopped doing what I did as a child. Carl Andre