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sadness humility thinking
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue. C. S. Lewis
sadness mean thinking
What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual. Aaron Swartz
sad education weed
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. Charlotte Bronte
sadness being-funny
What a sad business is being funny! Charlie Chaplin
sad break-up breakup
We need never be ashamed of our tears. Charles Dickens
sadness faces brightness
Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.
sad death suicide
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live. Charles Caleb Colton
sad broken-heart lonely
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
sad tomb
There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks. Suzy Menkes
blow house-of-cards imagination
If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards. The faith which 'took these things into account' was not faith but imagination.
blow delivering instead receiving
When you run, you are delivering the blow instead of receiving it. We like that. Jeremy Newberry
blow came crushing opportunity sure
when he (Donovan) came back that quickly, it really didn't even give us the opportunity to get negative. We scored so quickly, we were back up on top, and I'm sure it was a crushing blow to D.C. United. Kevin Hartman
blowing-up
Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.
blow wind sky
The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weathercocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, and to mutter, "Let them rest! Let them rest!
blow wrecks lasts
The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.
blow light candle
If God lights the candle, none can blow it out. Charles Spurgeon
blow chest love possibly starts
I think when you love a child, it's a different kind of love. You think, 'I love more every day. I love more every day, more every day, I couldn't possibly love any more, I'm going to blow up.' And then you blow up. Your chest actually starts to hurt. You love so much, you think I can't love any more. Sharon Stone
blow decision feelings
Decision-making when things show up instead of when they blow up is actually a habit that can be developed and enhanced. The trick is to get used the clean feeling of having decided, instead of sitting on a fence. David Allen
tears tables relief
I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Pastels since I'm positive we won't get seated but the table is good, and relief that is almost tidal in scope washes over me in an awesome wave. Bret Easton Ellis
tears lines and-love
There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears. Chris Botti
tears pearls gains
The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness. William Shakespeare
tears reason merriment
Nature's tears are reason's merriment.
tears might lasts
I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last! Elie Wiesel
tears minutes duty
Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice. Juvenal
tears cry misinterpretation
Don't shed no tears, no woman, no cry. Bob Marley
tears dry no-fear
Dry your tears, have no fears.
tears might looks
What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time. Dean Koontz