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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 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. Charles Caleb Colton
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.
gratitude grateful language
No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
gratitude appreciation attitude
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
A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration. Charles Spurgeon
wish contempt
What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again. William Shakespeare
wish world sun
I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.
wish might matter
No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight. Madeleine Albright
wish gum enough
By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head! C. S. Lewis
wish invisible
And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.
wish leisure wit
if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
wish use type
I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing Alan Ladd
wish here-and-now enjoy
When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is. Cheri Huber
wish facts shy
I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional. Charlotte Gainsbourg
life-is existence meaningless
life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there. Alan Alda
life-is-great life-is knows
Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.
life-is whole-life whole
My whole life is my work. Chris Cleave
life-is affair current-affairs
Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.
life-is-short goes-on causes
Life is short so go on and live it cause the chicks dig it. Chris Cagle
life-is-too-short half steps
I don’t do coupons or Reeboks. Life is too short to half-step. Eddie Huang
life-is paradox one-thing
So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time. David Hyde Pierce
life-is projects do-it-yourself
Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project. Denis Waitley
life-is-too-short long ive-learned
What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long. Denis Leary