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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
sadness being-funny
What a sad business is being funny! Charlie Chaplin
sadness faces brightness
Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history. Charles Dickens
sadness cleansing reassuring
There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness. David Rakoff
sadness tantrums
All sadness is a tantrum. Byron Katie
sadness matter world
When your world has shattered, ain't nothing else matters. It ain't over, it's only love and that's all. Bryan Adams
sadness night years
God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness. Charles Spurgeon
sadness hands all-alone
You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages. Al Stewart
heart anorexia situation
Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation. Carre Otis
heart golf swings
The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart. Carol Mann
heart love-is nurse
A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is. Carol Shields
heart my-heart universe
Universe, vast universe, my heart is vaster. Carlos Drummond de Andrade
heart gestures path
Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis. Carlos Castaneda
heart men laughing
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows. Carlos Castaneda
heart men sober
My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man. Carlos Castaneda
heart answers path
Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path. Carlos Castaneda
heart unhappy path
All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart! Carlos Castaneda
years focus proud
I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty. Carre Otis
years beliefs-and-values belief
Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before. Carol P. Christ
years another-year
Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground. Carol Shields
years ideas six
You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years. C. S. Lewis
years littles said
Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger". C. S. Lewis
years practice people
I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people. C. S. Lewis
years house able
Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do." "Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house. C. S. Lewis
years ideas important
I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working. Agnes Varda
years watches needs
I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them. Agnes Varda