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distance political politics
Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. Charles de Gaulle
distance giving payback
What do they say about meeting a bear in the woods? Oh right, you shouldn't. And to make sure you don't, you should make a lot of noise so that they'll will know where you are and keep their distance because, supposedly, they're as nervous of us as we are of them. Which is all goo, except this bear doesn't seem the least bit nervous. He's giving me a look like I'm Goldilocks, ate his porridge, broke his chair, slept in his bed, and now it's payback time."- Widdershins Charles de Lint
distance men world
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm. Charles Caleb Colton
distance character order
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it sometimes happens that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves.
distance knees remember
We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor. Charles Stanley
distance lying night
I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth. Charles Spurgeon
distance men law
The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.
distance home house
The distance between the glorified spirits in heaven and the militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home. Heaven... is just one sigh and we get there. Our departed friends are only in the upper room, as it were, of the same house; they have not gone far off; they are upstairs and we are down below.
distance reality love-is
Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire. That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering. For me, the thing that I love is that it's all about the present moment. Alan Ball
where-you-are objects
Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it. Alan Watts
where-you-are
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. C. S. Lewis
where-you-are ends determine
Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up Barack Obama
where-you-are depends
How you see where you are always depends on where you've been. Jacqueline Novogratz
where-you-are-going where-you-are dominant
The image of where you are going has to be more dominant than the image of where you are. Esther Hicks
where-you-are miles thousand
But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are. Harry Chapin
where-you-are where-you-are-going
You cannot get to where you are going until you have learned all there is to learn about where you are. Iyanla Vanzant
where-you-are-going where-you-are knows
...to find where you are going, you must know where you are. John Steinbeck
where-you-are
Begin where you are. Begin now. Norman Vincent Peale