Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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I have no personal ambitions. I consider it a great privilege to have been given an opportunity to serve, through the Congress party, the people of India. I think that itself is a great reward. I have no personal ambitions in that regard.
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It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals.
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I'm surprised that people think they're important. To me they're not.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving; and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed with the heart's gratitude.
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Whether the are splashed with gold or white, striped with chartreuse or cream, or margined in light tones, they are nature's weaklings, and nature is still a matter of survival of the fittest. The survival of variegated plants depends on human intervention.
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Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
