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
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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
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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
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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
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I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
Zoe Saldana
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
Garry Trudeau
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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
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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
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Cuando tu dolor es un poco mayor que mi dolor, me siento un poco cruel.
Antonio Porchia
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Kevin Durant would be welcome back in Oklahoma any time he's willing to come, and I want to be the first one he calls. He took care of the victims of our tornadoes. He took care of families. Took care of little kids. So, he has a heart, and he's not a bad ballplayer.
Jim Inhofe
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Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?
Jeffrey Kluger
