Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes

When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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• Missing
• Gratitude
• Grateful

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• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

  

  Mahavira
  • Control
  • Practice
  • Start

• I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Day
  • Start
  • Television

• Parts that are desexed, matronly – to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Character
  • Know
  • Fly

• I do not like violence.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Like
  • Violence

• Humor is an antidote to all ills.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Humor
  • Antidote
  • Ills

• I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I'm interested in how all these things are happening in one block.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Good
  • Man
  • Couple

• I do wear weaves and I do wear wigs.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Wear
  • Wigs

• There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Nothing
  • Holocaust
  • Compares

• 'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic, weird. One of my favourite bands is Ladytron, and I think they'd fit the bill quite well.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Think
  • Dark
  • Weird

• Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant that a person was willing to interact politely with people of lower social ranks. In Jane Austen's world, a lady praised for her condescension was receiving a sincere compliment.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Different
  • Know
  • Fire

• Between the conceptionAnd the creationBetween the emotionAnd the responseFalls the Shadow

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Shadow

• Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Simple
  • Racism

• What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • Intuition

• All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Life
  • May
  • Happy

• It will all come back - the wasted splendor, The heart's lost youth like a breaking flower, The dauntless dare, and the wistful, tender Touch of the April hour.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • Heart
  • Lost
  • Flower

• In society at large, nerds are law-abiding, caring, fundamentally good folk who keep the wheels of civilization grinding.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Good
  • Society
  • Law

• Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

  

  Israel ben Eliezer
  • God

• It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An casual remark or joke shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges, or the most important battles.

  

  Plutarch
  • Character
  • Discovered
  • Virtues

• Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Heaven
  • Relationships
  • Bridges

• We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present ... we experience heaven on earth.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Focus
  • Heaven
  • Missing