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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.
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.
gratitude revenge punctual
Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
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
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.
swimming littles mice
I see you that have a little swimming mouse David Sedaris
swim
I swim more or less every day. Jane Asher
swim grace glory
I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it. Charles Spurgeon
swim desire want
I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure. Alan Rickman
swimming oxygen air
I just learned how to scuba dive. Id been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating. Cheryl Hines
swimming garden lucky
I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky. Brian May
swim months walks
I could walk and swim at 10 months old. Brandon Cruz
swimming rocks found
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on. Barbara Kingsolver
swimming overcoming impossible
To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be. Brian Tracy
today garbage ordinary
Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. Carl Bernstein
today dishes britain
Re-colonizing it and sort of reverse-colonizing it to the point that today the national dish of Great Britain is Chicken Tikka Masala. Aasif Mandvi
today problem killing
Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem. Brent Scowcroft
today language sometimes
Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today. Diane Wakoski
today states form
States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today. David Graeber
today
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself. Byron Katie
today
We are here today because we want to be responsible stewards of the surplus, Olympia Snowe
today facts roles
Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it. Jared Diamond
today lasts next
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem. Alan Perlis