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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
disappointment order play
The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments. Carlos Castaneda
disappointment discipline paint
It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint. Agnes Martin
disappointment mistake order
I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder-how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester's movements a matter in which I had any cause to take vital interest. Charlotte Bronte
disappointment night egypt
My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive. Charlotte Bronte
disappointment victory advancement
There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue. Charles Caleb Colton
disappointment choices discouragement
Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make. Charles Stanley
disappointment choices discouraged
Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments. Charles Stanley
disappointment optimistic choices
Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice. Charles Stanley
disappointment sadness events-in-life
Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself. Richard G. Scott
focus picture state team win
We have to get up for every team we play. Our focus now is to win a state championship. Yeah, we want to get back at Hillsborough, but we see the big picture and that is to win games, Sean Callahan
focus whatever
We have to get our focus on the playoffs. Whatever it takes. The commitment, the attitude, the leadership. John Torchetti
focus next problem
We have to focus now on the next big problem which will be heating. Jan Vandemoortele
focus football
We have to focus back with our football team, Matt Millen
focus game looking position road start stop time
We have no choice. We're in a position where we have to stop looking down the road and start to focus on one game at a time and getting better. Kevin Garnett
focus graduate huge loan students
We want our students to be able to focus on their futures when they graduate without being saddled with huge amounts of student loan debt. Bob Willis
focus helping leading productive team teammates
We want him to be focused. We want him to focus on leading this team and helping his teammates in the postseason. We thought it was productive and fruitful. Doug Snyder
focus team throw time
We have a young team that is very inexperienced and at times when we don't throw strikes, their focus can wane from time to time. Lance Traywick
focus helpful market policy proved shifting
The CPI proved not so helpful for the yen's rises. The market is now shifting its focus to the policy meeting. Etsuko Yamashita