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sadness humility thinking
My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue. C. S. Lewis
sadness mean thinking
What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual. Aaron Swartz
sad education weed
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. Charlotte Bronte
sadness being-funny
What a sad business is being funny! Charlie Chaplin
sad break-up breakup
We need never be ashamed of our tears. Charles Dickens
sadness faces brightness
Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history. Charles Dickens
sad death suicide
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live. Charles Caleb Colton
sad broken-heart lonely
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. Charles Caleb Colton
sad tomb
There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks. Suzy Menkes
pain philosophy exercise
I don't exercise. My philosophy is: No pain, no pain. Carol Leifer
pain hate sadness
"Only if one loves this earth with unbending passion can one relieve one's sadness," don Juan said. "Warriors are always joyful because their love is unalterable and their beloved, the earth, embraces them and bestows upon them inconceivable gifts. The sadness belongs only to those who hate the very thing that gives shelter to their beings." Don Juan again caressed the ground with tenderness. "This lovely being, which is alive to its last recesses and understands every feeling, soothed me, it cured me of my pains, and finally when I had fully understood my love for it, it taught me freedom." Carlos Castaneda
pain grief warrior
... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them Carlos Castaneda
pain war grief
Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough? C. S. Lewis
pain wake-up world
Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world. C. S. Lewis
pain recover
When you're young, you recover fast. I can take a lot of pain. Nick Brown
pain fate men
Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate. Agnes Repplier
pain regret years
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret? Agnes Repplier
pain taken flower
Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers Charlotte Bronte
gold mines
We have to go to the gold mines to dig. If we do not do that, we will not survive. Timothy Johnson
gold weight silver
Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight. Alan Kay
gold noble affliction
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton. Charles Caleb Colton
gold truth-is findings
The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine. Byron Katie
gold would-be cost
Your financial cost can best be figured out when you realize that if you were to devote the same time and energy to business instead of gold, you would be a millionaire in approximately six weeks. Buddy Hackett
gold devil mud
The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold. Carlos Santana
gold bills sailor
A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft. Alan Watts
gold derivatives commodity
Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise. Alan Greenspan
gold paper demand
Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating. Alan Greenspan