Ambrose of Optina Quotes
“We must begin with thanksgiving for everything. The beginning of joy is to be content with your situation.”Ambrose of Optina
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
Oscar Isaac -
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
Eddie Albert -
You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
Walter Kirn -
As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.
Dane Cook -
I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
Garry Trudeau -
Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
Quvenzhane Wallis -
I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
Obie Trice -
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao Tzu -
The older I get, the more I appreciate the idea of being thrown together with a group of people you might have a lot in common with, or nothing at all. You don't have the option of doing anything other than making your family relationships work - forever. I like that.
Kate Klise -
Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.
Tanith Lee -
1) Writers who write for other writers should write letters.
Larry Niven
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You've got to know who you are before you step into this business, because if you're trying to find it, you'll probably wind up being somebody else, that you probably don't even like. 2
Whitney Houston -
Cuando tu dolor es un poco mayor que mi dolor, me siento un poco cruel.
Antonio Porchia -
I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.
Brenda Lee -
If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have.
Barack Obama -
Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.
Corrie Ten Boom -
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
Ian Mckellen -
I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth.
Joanna Southcott -
“We must begin with thanksgiving for everything. The beginning of joy is to be content with your situation.”
Ambrose of Optina