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wise wisdom juan
Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet. Carlos Castaneda
wise dark garden
The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid. C. S. Lewis
wise fate brave
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate. Agnes Repplier
wise cavemen scratches
Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories. Alan Kay
wise son night
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid. Charlotte Bronte
wise thinking likes-and-dislikes
Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none
wise strong humble
Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the pride of the humble, the prudence of the wise, and the sense of fools. To speak is to . . . dissipate one's strength; whereas what action demands is concentration. Silence is a necessary preliminary to the ordering of one's thoughts. Charles de Gaulle
wise wisdom thinking
Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can. Charles de Lint
wise laughter people
He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset Charles Dickens
adversity faces defeat
I also know that every person faces adversity in life. Abraham Lincoln held this seat in Congress in one term. But few faced as many defeats in his personal, business and public life as he did, Aaron Schock
adversity school trouble
Adversity is a good school.
adversity lasts camels
It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
adversity blessing sometimes
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings. Charles Caleb Colton
adversity extremes knows
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
adversity prosperity shrinks
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
adversity half known
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
adversity doe needs
Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them. Charles Stanley
adversity fire secret
Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible. Charles Spurgeon
blow house-of-cards imagination
If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards. The faith which 'took these things into account' was not faith but imagination.
blow delivering instead receiving
When you run, you are delivering the blow instead of receiving it. We like that. Jeremy Newberry
blow came crushing opportunity sure
when he (Donovan) came back that quickly, it really didn't even give us the opportunity to get negative. We scored so quickly, we were back up on top, and I'm sure it was a crushing blow to D.C. United. Kevin Hartman
blowing-up
Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.
blow wind sky
The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weathercocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, and to mutter, "Let them rest! Let them rest!
blow wrecks lasts
The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.
blow light candle
If God lights the candle, none can blow it out.
blow chest love possibly starts
I think when you love a child, it's a different kind of love. You think, 'I love more every day. I love more every day, more every day, I couldn't possibly love any more, I'm going to blow up.' And then you blow up. Your chest actually starts to hurt. You love so much, you think I can't love any more. Sharon Stone
blow decision feelings
Decision-making when things show up instead of when they blow up is actually a habit that can be developed and enhanced. The trick is to get used the clean feeling of having decided, instead of sitting on a fence. David Allen