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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
writing people leader
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember. Carlos Ghosn
writing biographies like-you
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. Carlos Fuentes
writing literature imagine
In literature, you know only what you imagine
writing fighting opposites
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
writing littles needs
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
writing angel
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
writing order stories
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
writing ends dies
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
writing needs imagine
I need, therefore I imagine.
stones next temples
The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple. Charles Taze Russell
stones doe heavy
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist. Lucretius
stones trouble burden
If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus. Charles Spurgeon
stones today ends
I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up. Catherine Ryan Hyde
stones builder corners
The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone. Bob Marley
stones gigs odd
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could. Bill Wyman
stones stepping-stones
Failure is a stepping stone to success. Arianna Huffington
stones glass-houses throwing
My policy is no stone throwing regardless of housing situation. Demetri Martin
stones recoil throwers
The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower. Elizabeth I