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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
gratitude revenge adversity
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude. Charles Caleb Colton
gratitude grateful language
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful. Charles Caleb Colton
gratitude appreciation attitude
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. Charles Caleb Colton
slaughterhouse-five matter why-me
Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Kurt Vonnegut
slaughterhouse-five amber matter
- Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? - Yes. - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why. Kurt Vonnegut
slaughterhouse-five mountain doe
I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Kurt Vonnegut
slaughterhouse-five next slaughterhouse-5
He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next Kurt Vonnegut
slaughterhouse-five slaughterhouse-5 slaughter-house-five
Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes. Kurt Vonnegut
slaughterhouse-five love-one-another slaughterhouse-5
They do not love one another because they do not love themselves. Kurt Vonnegut
slaughterhouse-five awful might
That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones. Kurt Vonnegut
slaughterhouse-five chaos slaughterhouse-5
All this happened, more or less. Kurt Vonnegut
awful way showing-up
I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching. Dave Chappelle
awful god playing
We started playing on Marty's kid's stuff. God, it was an awful noise! John McFarland
awful built era society workers
We're in a society where an awful lot of the institutions we have were built for a different era, an era where we had 16 workers for every retiree. Stephen Friedman
awful decide mansion money talking
We're talking about an awful lot of money here to get the mansion in shape. It is up to you to decide what you want to do. Mayor Madison
awful love proper telling
I love having my cards read - if you go to a proper place, they wouldn't dream of telling you anything awful that is going to happen. Helen George
awful excuse bigs
It's just a big excuse to say awful things. Louis C. K.
awful challenged execute few second start
We were awful in the second quarter. We didn't start that bad. We'd execute for a few plays, but we couldn't keep things going. We challenged them at halftime. Hugh Fountain
awful bit happens looking oh
We were awful for a while. In that first half, oh my gosh. I'm looking at it, thinking, 'Can we be this bad?' Yeah. And it was a little bit of being gun-shy from that loss. That happens when you lose. John Calipari
awful loud mellow open sides songs
We were always open to all sides and experimented an awful lot. That way we had a lot of mellow songs and a lot of noisy, loud songs. Mark McGrath