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inspirational happiness thank-you
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Charles Dickens
inspirational expectations morality
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.
inspirational death book
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
inspirational money guarantees-that
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
inspirational laughter humor
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
inspirational depressing adversity
All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them. Charles Caleb Colton
inspirational happiness happy
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
inspirational inspiring time
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
inspirational mean literature
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
wisdom expectations looks
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
wisdom knowledge literature
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
wisdom intelligence literature
Mystery is not profoundness.
wisdom next profit
The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.
wisdom believe errors
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
wisdom perfection
Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.
wisdom character
The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.
wisdom ifs
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
wisdom age next
Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. Charles Simmons
ideas house stories
She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.
ideas rocks tree
Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it. Charles Soule
ideas yellow people
The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used. Charles Stross
ideas people want
People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is. Charles Stanley
ideas good-work ifs
Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them! Charles Spurgeon
ideas world incredibles
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. Alan Watts
ideas gentleman plausible
The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.
ideas stink masters
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.
ideas matter certain
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.