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summer spiritual winter
Charles Dickens From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman
summer winter order
Alan Jay Lerner The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
summer reality refugee
Chris Cleave We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
summer get-better wasting-your-time
Chris Bosh If you're not getting better in the summer, you're wasting your time.
summer school ymca
Chloe Sevigny I had always wanted to be an actress. I went to summer theater camp from kindergarten on up until high school, and always had the leads in all the plays - even though they were at the YMCA - but it was something I always wanted to do.
summer daylight moments
China Mieville The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.
summer years games
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I would come, many years later, to understand why To Kill A Mockingbird is considered an important novel, but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.
summer believe doors
Edward Hoagland Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.
gratitude grateful opportunity
Charles Dickens 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.
gratitude men serenity
Charles Caleb Colton 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
Charles Caleb Colton 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
Charles Caleb Colton Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude
gratitude revenge games
Charles Caleb Colton 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
Charles Caleb Colton 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.
gratitude grateful language
Charles Caleb Colton No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
gratitude appreciation attitude
Charles Caleb Colton True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
gratitude children joy
Charles Spurgeon A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.
disappointment victory advancement
Charles Caleb Colton There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue.
disappointment choices discouragement
Charles Stanley Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.
disappointment choices discouraged
Charles Stanley Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.
disappointment optimistic choices
Charles Stanley Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.
disappointment opportunity thinking
Al Pacino I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.
disappointment believe confusion
Aiden Wilson Tozer A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.
disappointment golf broken
Earl Wilson Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.
disappointment grief circles
David Hume Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.
disappointment writing thinking
Athol Fugard Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.